RELS 112 - Religious Ethics and Modern Society

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University of Pennsylvania

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Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course is designed to discover Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish ethics, their contribution to the values and practices of the citizenry, as they relate in creative tension, competitive values, or conflicts of interest with contemporary medical, legal, educational, and social questions bearing upon such personal, interpersonal, and social issues as sex, abortion, euthanasia, marriage, divorce. child abuse, civil rights, care of the dying, fetal research, test tube babies, political conscience, war and peace. Students will be able to work through their own understanding of a critical issue through the development of a problem-oriented paper bearing upon the perspectives and teachings of Jewish ethics in relation to an ethical issue, or on an individual Judeo-Christian ethicist in relation to a moral problem.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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