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Moral Development Reasoning and Decision Making

Online with Zoom

This course provides introduction developmental moral psychology in conversation with selected themes from within normative philosophical ethics (for example, ‘care’, ‘justice’ and ‘duty’. It engages with science and art.  It inquires into such questions as ‘what is moral maturity?’; how does the moral self develop?’; ‘what constitutes and conditions moral growth’?; ‘how to achieve moral excellence?’; ‘is good character enough for leading morally good life?’, ‘how do we assess difficult moral situations and prioritise goods?’; ‘how do we deal with moral incontinence or failure?’; ‘what should the content of moral education be in order foster moral growth?’. Cost:  £230 Dates: [...]

£230

Recurring Event Theology and Practice of Mission

Women as Icons and Subversive Habits

Online with Zoom

This course will be offered in a reflective study format based on selected chapters of two books, Women: Icons of Christ, and Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle. Each session includes one chapter and one additional source to be read/watched in advance, followed by chaired discussions among the participants and a course leader. This course provides an ample opportunity for further conversations started during the course Women Who Changed the World, introduced at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Spring 2022. Add Event To Your Calendar Register here [...]

£200

Recurring Event Ethics MA

Ethics in Professional Context

Online with Zoom

This interactive, interdisciplinary module is designed to explore ethical concepts as they form, relate and critique a particular professional context, with a view to helping students develop their own foundations and tools for reasoning about their own professional ethics. Elements such as sources of ethical thinking and moral imagination; central concepts such as equality, common good, human dignity; the value and spirituality of work; the role of ethics in society, all contribute to the theological context in which a particular profession will be approached. Various case studies will be introduced throughout the course in order to address these questions and [...]

£230