Module PHL2020 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL2020: Virtues and Vices
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
1. Introduction
2. Virtue Ethics: for and against
3. What is a virtue? What is a vice?
4. Virtues and duties.
5. Virtues and happiness.
6. The cardinal virtues: wisdom, justice, courage and temperance
7. The economic virtues and vices: thrift, generosity, greed and avarice
8. The sexual virtues and vices: chastity, modesty and lust
9. The military virtues and vices: courage, cowardice and foolhardiness
10. Virtues pagan and Christian
11. Conclusion
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 11 | Lectures |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 11 | Tutorials |
Guided Independent study | 128 | Reading, preparing classwork, writing essays and preparing for the exam |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).