This course focuses on conceptions of the “good life” and justice in relation to questions of human and environmental flourishing. We will consider issues such as the practices and values that are involved in a good life and a just society; whether ethics is universal or particular and what we owe our nations and humanity; the reality of conflict and how conflicts might be resolved or managed; the morality of human nature; environmental and animal ethics; the ethics of war and peace; utilitarian, deontological, virtue and existential ethics. These issues will allow students to reflect upon a range of values in both their personal and public lives involving the nature of goodness, rightness, justice and the common good in modern social-political conditions.