Program in Ethics, Bioethics, and Technoethics

Transform Your Future with Cutting-Edge Ethical Education

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Syllabus
Academic Plan

1. Ethics

  • Introduction: Some of the Essential Concepts of Ethics
  • The question of the foundation: why should I do well?
  • Relativism vs universalism
  • Moral Evil as an Option (and as a Philosophical Problem)
  • Reflections on nihilism
  • Emotivism
  • Teleological Ethics: Hedonism, Epicurus, Aristotle, Mill, Singer
  • Deontological ethics: Stoicism, Seneca, Kant
  • The always complicated relations between ethics and politics
  • A brief overview of the current moment
  

2. Bioethics and Technoethics

  • Introduction to Applied Ethics
  • Current issues and problems of bioethics
  • Current issues and problems of technoethics
  

3. Ethical and legal aspects of data

  • Dataism: Digital Society and the Crisis of Humanism
  • What is data? What can we expect from them? Truth and neutrality in data
  • Justice and equity in a digital society
  • Algorithmic ethics: bias, manipulation, transparency and control
  • Ethical and legal frameworks for data protection
  • Building futures and current debates