KIE Graduate Instructor in Ethics Dimitri Putilin will be offering a one-time only course for undergraduates during the spring semester:
Religion, Ethics, Psychology {Ethics 290S.06/Psych 290S.01/ICS 290S.11}
Tuesday/Thursday 1:25 – 2:40pm
The course will consider two distinct perspectives on ethics: religious and psychological. Religions provide the oldest, immensely influential accounts of what it means to be moral; with its empirical approach and innovative methods, moral psychology is able to shed new light on how moral ideals shape people’s thoughts and behavior in the modern world. We explore and contrast the ideals of moral perfection described in Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, and complement this with the understanding of morality which is emerging from empirical research in moral psychology, covering both established knowledge and current controversies. No prior knowledge of religion or psychology is required.