B.A. (Hons) Ethics, Religion & Philosophy

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

The central questions of life - How should I act? What is life all about? Is there a God? - these questions and others as fundamental and challenging lie at the heart of the new Ethics, Religion and Philosophy pathway.

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Location

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints Building, All Saints, M15 6BH

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About this course

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Subjects

  • Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Religion Philosophy
  • Metaphysics

Course programme

Course Content Units you will study
  • Year 1

    Year 1 consists of four core units, designed to initiate you with the activity of philosophising, to acquaint you with the activity of reading original texts, and to introduce you to a range of basic themes and concepts in the tradition of philosophy - including ethics, and metaphysics.

  • Year 2

    The core units, which you will study in Year 2, will develop the themes from Year 1, focusing on the study of particular philosophical texts in the tradition of European philosophy. You will also have the opportunity to choose from a range of optional themed course units, for example, Nietzsche and Sartre, phenomenology or metaphysics

    • Philosophy of Religion
    • Virtues and Values

    Option units:

    • Engaging the Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Metaphysics
    • Nietzsche and Sartre
    • Phenomenology
    • Greek Philosophy: The Presocratics, Platio and Aristotle
  • Year 3

    Year 3 allows you to develop through independent work via a dissertation of your choice. Additionally, there are various optional units available, which allow you to pursue your particular interests, whether in the form of specialist authors like Heidegger or Wittgenstein, or thematic options like aesthetics, philosophy of the art, and philosophy of literature.

    • Dissertation
    • Bioethics and Moral Dilemmas
    • Theism and Paganism: Philosophy of Religion II

    Option units

    • Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
    • Embodiment and Technology
    • Heidegger and the Crisis of Philosophy
    • Kant and Hegel
    • Philosophy of Education
    • Philosophy of Literature
    • Mind and Action

B.A. (Hons) Ethics, Religion & Philosophy

Price on request