
Great Moral Issues in Contemporary Society – GI 25 117
9 October 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST
Tutor: Karim Esmail BA, MPhil, MPhil, PhD
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There are a number of issues which are of great moral concern today.
This course is an introduction to some of these issues: experiments on animals, abortion, euthanasia, immigration, multiculturalism, freedom of speech and religion, capital punishment, and war.
In each case, we’ll arrive at an understanding of the issue and then we’ll consider some of the debate around it.
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About the Speaker
Karim Esmail
Dr. Karim Esmail was educated at London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard. He was awarded a British Academy Studentship and the Gregg Bury Prize at Cambridge. He was formerly, a Research Fellow at Oxford and Burney Student at Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard and he lectures at both Cambridge and Oxford. Alongside international articles, he is the author of three volumes of an original philosophical work on the nature and existence of God. Classes with Karim consist of clearly structured lectures and an encouragement to ask questions and to make comments. Students are assisted in their understanding of the subject and in their critical engagement with it.
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