Module Code 單元編號 GEK1042 Module Title 單元名稱 MORALITY AND THE GOOD LIFE: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE 從比較視角探討道德價值與個人幸福 Module Synopsis 單元概要 Reasonable people have reasonable disagreements about what counts as morality and what a good life is. Answers vary across societies, cultures, and contexts. This course treats morality and the good life as an open topic that requires students to be familiar with diverse perspectives and make decisions for themselves. To achieve this goal, the course explores fundamental issues such as “is there a universal morality and a good life?”, “how to teach about and for morality?”, “public good and the private domain”, “civic virtues and cosmopolitan values”, “virtue ethics”, and “the politics of morality” from a comparative perspective. In this course, the comparative perspective refers to both “inter-cultural” and “intra-cultural”. Given that morality is controversial and context-sensitive and is often understood and applied differently across different cultures and societies, the comparison will help better teach morality. Through the process, the course encourages students to reconsider how to live together with people who come from different backgrounds and hold diverse understandings of morality and the good life. Relevant theories and traditions undergirding different understandings of morality and the good life will also be introduced and analysed from a comparative perspective, including Confucianism, Daoism, liberalism, republicanism, and communitarianism. Meanwhile, various moral dilemmas contained in both local and global cases will be explored and rationally discussed through activities such as presentation, group discussion, debate, and role play. In this process, students will be encouraged to develop a better understanding regarding how the course content is related to their contemporary living.