Tutor information
Hossein Dabbagh
Hossein is a Philosophy tutor at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education and Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education. He completed his PhD in moral philosophy at the University of Reading and Oxford.
Courses
"What we speak", says Hāfez, the Persian poet, "becomes the house we live in". But how do we learn the meaning of what we speak? How do we communicate "meaningfully"? How do people create meaning from the utterances they make?
In this introduction to ethics, we shall examine four important ethical theories, applying them to two practical questions: the rights of animals and euthanasia. There will be plenty of opportunity to engage in debate and test your own thinking.
Killing is disturbing, yet most people believe that it is sometimes not blameworthy to kill someone else. Under what conditions, if any, is it permissible to kill someone else?
Killing is disturbing, yet most people believe that it is sometimes not blameworthy to kill someone else. Under what conditions, if any, is it permissible to kill someone else?
How do we think in the moral domain? How do we decide whether an action is morally wrong? How do we choose what is right to do? Explore all these questions and more.