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Module Specifications
Archived Version 2020 - 2021
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Description This module explores how various religious traditions influence ethical decision-making and practice. The module will firstly examine ways in which religious beliefs and worldviews influence the development of various forms of ethical perspectives and standards that have come to shape and define cultures and societies. Secondly, it will explore particular religious moral traditions including Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. African, Asian and indigenous ethical perspectives will also be explored. Thirdly, course participants will be given the opportunity to compare how religious traditions approach and assess particular ethical issues (e.g. economics, ecology, health, human rights) and thus demonstrate an active and creative interaction between theory and practice. Finally, the module will examine the development of a universal or global ethic. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of ethics in a broad range of religious traditions and of the similarities and differences between these traditions in terms of values, norms and methodology. 2. Display a critical awareness of contemporary public and professional ethical issues together with ethical insights developed and informed by a variety of comparative religious perspectives. 3. Select from a number of ethical decision-making models that have been informed by a religious worldview that incorporates both a theoretical and an applied approach to ethics. 4. Apply and appraise the various religious frameworks for dealing with ethical problems, challenges and dilemmas to demonstrate an understanding of how religious traditions can lead to various ethical positions on contemporary ethical concerns. 5. Apply skills in scrutinising and reflecting on specific contemporary ethical challenges arising from either work practices or from social and political issues in a religiously pluralist world. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Learning Activities Universal Moral ExperienceWe will study and evaluate the Global Ethic.Relationship between Ethics and ReligionIs ethics dependent upon religion? What about secular ethics?Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, African, Asian and Indigenous Ethical PerspectivesWe will work closely with primary and secondary religious texts in the World Religions (including Indigenous traditions)Comparisons in Religious Ethics in Relation to a Selected Issue such as Economics, Ecology, Health, Human RightsWe will learn how best to compare religious traditions through a range of ethical and moral issues.Declaration Toward a Global EthicWhat unites all faiths? What divides them? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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