Undergraduate Module Descriptor

PHL2118: Moral agency in social context

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

Collective responsibility

The Marxian view of morality.

Social context and moral ignorance.

Social change and moral agency: the case of slavery, abolition and emancipation. Inequality, functional importance and incentives.

Personal/political agency & collective responsibility

Rich egalitarianism?

Duties to alleviate absolute poverty?

Moral saintliness & the demandingness of morality.

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
22	128

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled learning and teaching activities	22	1 hour weekly lecture + 1 hour weekly seminar
Guided independent study	45	Preparation for tutorial participation including reading and planning
Guided independent study	83	Preparation for essay, library, research etc.

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).