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Ethics and Society

All students will eventually confront moral problems with social, political, or legal dimensions in their roles as citizens, scholars, professionals, parents, members of their communities, and as human beings with responsibilities to other nations and peoples. Warren College designed Ethics and Society, PHIL or POLI 27 and PHIL or POLI 28, to help students learn how to make moral decisions, engage in moral reasoning, and understand the positions of others in the great moral conflicts of our time.

Generals, politicians, executives, and judges often make decisions for many other people that can have widespread ramifications. The Ethics and Society courses demand that students examine essential moral and ethical questions.

  • Should we go to war in order to protect our national security or the security of an ally? If so, how should the war be conducted?
  • Should we build factories in third world countries that employ people who thereby acquire the means to sustain themselves, if we do so by exploiting them, or by polluting their air, water, and land?
  • Do individual persons have the right to decide whether to end their lives without interference from the state?

These questions, and others like them, are not merely academic—they are very real. Democracy works only when citizens have sufficient knowledge and understanding of moral theory and practice to make decisions that have a significant impact on the lives of others.Warren college is dedicated to the ideal of informed, engaged, morally sensitive citizenship, and considers Ethics and Society to be a principal means of achieving this ideal.

PHIL 27 or POLI 27 provides an overarching view of these issues and PHIL 28 or POLI 28 focuses on one (or more) topics in detail. In these courses, students will learn how to write, think, and speak about these issues.

Schedule

Summer Session 1 & 2

Summer Session 1

PHIL 27: Ethics and Society

LE TTH 11:00AM - 12:50PM PETER 102 Ridge, Sam
DI  TTH 09:00AM - 09:50AM HSS 1305 Ridge, Sam 
DI TTH 1:00PM - 1:50 PM HSS 1305 Ridge, Sam 

POLI 27: Ethics and Society

PHIL 28: Ethics and Society

LE  TTH 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CSB 005 Cadenas, Haggeo
DI T 1:00PM - 1:50 PM CENTR 201 Cadenas, Haggeo
DI  TH  4:00PM - 4:50PM CENTR 201 Cadenas, Haggeo

 

Summer Session 2

PHIL 27: Ethics and Society

PHIL 28: Ethics and Society

LE  MW 11:00AM - 12:50PM RCLAS Andy Lamey
DI  MW 2:00PM - 2:50PM RCLAS Andy Lamey
DI  MW 3:00PM - 3:50PM RCLAS Andy Lamey
DI MW 4:00PM - 4:50PM RCLAS Andy Lamey

 

Fall 2025

PHIL 27: Ethics and Society

Section Day Time Room
Instructor
LE A00 MW 1:00 - 1:50pm MOS 0114
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A01 M 11:00-11:50am HSS 1305
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A02 M 12:00-12:50pm HSS 1305
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A03 W 2:00-2:50pm HSS 1305
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A04 W 3:00-3:50pm HSS 1305
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A05 W 4:00-4:50pm HSS 1305
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A06 M 5:00-5:50pm CENTR 218
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A07 W 12:00-12:50pm CENTR 203
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A08 F 1:00-1:50pm YORK 4050A
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A09 F 10:00-10:50pm CENTR 217B
Manuel Rogelio Vargas
DI A10 F 9:00-9:50pm CENTR 217B
Manuel Rogelio Vargas

 

PHIL 28: Ethics and Society

Section Day Time Room
Instructor
LE A00 MW 12:00-12:50pm LEDDN AUD
Saba Bazargan-Forward
DI A01 M 10:00-10:50am HSS 2150
Saba Bazargan-Forward
DI A02 M 11:00-11:50am CENTR 218
Saba Bazargan-Forward
DI A03 M 1:00-1:50pm YORK 4050A
Saba Bazargan-Forward
DI A04 M 3:00-3:50pm HSS 2321
Saba Bazargan-Forward
DI A05 W 3:00-3:50pm HSS 2321
Saba Bazargan-Forward
DI A06 M 4:00-4:50pm HSS 1305
Saba Bazargan-Forward
DI A07 F 10:00-10:50am HSS 1315
Saba Bazargan-Forward
DI A08 F 11:00-11:50am HSS 2321
Saba Bazargan-Forward