The course will present the fundamental questions of moral philosophy and survey the central systematic approaches developed to address them. We shall explore themes from the three main sub-subdiscplines of ethics: metaethics (Is morality objective or is it a matter of personal taste or social convention? Does a moral judgment express one’s belief, preference, emotional response or what? And so on); normative ethics (Is some action morally right because its consequences are good, or because it discharges a moral duty, or again because a virtuous person tends to perform it?); and applied ethics (for instance, is it wrong to eat animals? What, if anything, justifies punishing criminals? Do we have a moral duty to give to the poor?)