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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

POL 380 - Dirty Hands: Moral Dilemmas

3 Credits
Offered alternate years in Fall
The difficult “problem of dirty hands” that is making morally unpalatable choices when confronting mutually exclusive and competing ethical claims. Works of modern political philosophy and classic literature explore some possible responses to such problems.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): POL 171 - Power, Order, and Justice   or a 100-level Philosophy course
Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Ethical Reasoning