Ehh. Mediocre, airy-fairy, choose-your-own adventure assessment course (like most PHIL courses at UQ). For 'Moral Philosophy' modules: Normative ethical frameworks are barely analyzed. Metaethics, which are essential for developing any sort of framework, or taxonomy, are completely ignored. Time is wasted on interesting, but further downstream and irrelevant topics such as Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, or Arendt's Banality of Evil. Time is also spent on even further downstream issues such as autonomy, and AI. Bizarre focus on internalism/externalism epistemology. Superficial glance at just war theory. Minimal/superficial analysis of how moral and political philosophy interact (no answer to which one is 'downstream' of the other or similar questions) Political philosophy: This component was more interesting. It pertains to a superficial overview of Hobbes/Leviathan/Social Contract theory/Rawls. If you want to learn anything about moral philosophy/ethics, maybe avoid this cacophony of a course. The quiz mostly comprised of tricky and quote-mining questions. In conclusion: easy course, don't take it if you want to learn essential knowledge relating to metaethics or normative ethics. Kind of pointless. Probably about 5 YouTube rabbit-hole's worth of knowledge.

Anonymous, Semester 1, 2023