Global Ethics: An Introduction
Explore the key ethical theories surrounding global challenges and learn how philosophy can be used to address these problems.
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Global Ethics: An Introduction
Widespread poverty, closed borders and catastrophic climate change
In our interconnected world, we face challenges that demand global solutions. But how do you find the right solutions?
On this course, you will use key ethical theories to examine the most important global issues of our time. What should be done about widespread poverty? Can it be right for countries to control migration and close borders? And what about climate change: Why care about preserving the world for future generations anyway?
Upon completing this course, you’ll be better equipped to think about and debate some of today’s most complex global ethical challenges.
What topics will you cover?
Week 1
How do key moral theories apply to the most important issues in global ethics?
Week 2
Global inequality: What should be done about widespread poverty?
Week 3
Migration: Are controlled borders unethical?
Week 4
Climate change: Should we care for future generations?
When would you like to start?
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Discuss key moral theories and apply them to important issues in global ethics.
- Explore and examine the global challenge of inequality, and appreciate its complexity.
- Apply and critically assess different arguments relating to the global challenge of migration.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the global challenge of climate change, and consider our obligations to future generations.
- Identify and use the concepts and methods of philosophy.
- Apply basic philosophical arguments.
- Identify and use key ethical concepts.
- Debate in a reasoned manner some of the most important questions of our time.
Who is the course for?
This course is for anyone interested in global ethics, or those considering further study in global challenges and philosophy.
What software or tools do you need?
There are no specific software requirements or tools needed to study this course.
Who will you learn with?
Manuel Dries is a UK Philosopher at The Open University and the University of Oxford. His research is in European Philosophy with a focus on contemporary Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, and Aesthetics.
I am a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University. I have ten years of teaching experience, across a wide range of topics including Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Political Philosophy.
I am a lecturer and Staff Tutor at the Open University in the UK. Here, and elsewhere, over the years I have taught a variety of topics in political, moral and social philosophy.
I'm a philosopher working in the department at the Open University: I work on political philosophy, and increasingly, the philosophy of sport. To be honest, I'm interested in just about everything.
Who developed the course?
The Open University
As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.
Established
1969Location
Milton Keynes, UKWorld ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020
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Develop skills to further your career
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- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
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$134/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
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Sample the course materials
- Access expires 7 Nov 2024
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