Representative questions studied during the course include:
- What is it to live oneʹs life well?
- Is there a single true morality?
- How can we know what is the right and wrong thing to do?
- Why should I do the right thing?
- Should we be guided by reason or passion, altruism or egoism?
- Who should rule?
- Are there natural rights?
- Is the idea of forcing someone to be free a contradiction?
- Is freedom compatible with hierarchy?
- Should there be limits on what justice can demand in order to bring about the best consequences?