Philosophical Ethics

In Philosophical Ethics you investigate the moral implications of human actions from the point of view of virtue ethics, phenomenology, and hermeneutics.

Philosophical Ethics is the part of practical philosophy that aims for the question about what makes human life and living together good, useful or worthwhile, and what we must do to act morally right.

In Nijmegen Philosophical Ethics pays a lot of attention to the history of ethics. Methodically she is guided mainly by phenomenology and hermeneutics. Among ethical theories the main focus is on virtue ethics. Authors that are being discussed extensively include: Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer and MacIntyre. Regularly our education and publications are devoted to the relation between literature and ethics. Besides, there is much expertise on a few domains of applied ethics, especially on administrative ethics, business ethics, military ethics, and the ethics of upbringing and education.