In line with the educational objectives of the Social Services Study Course, the teaching contributes to providing the conceptual, methodological and historical tools for basic ethical training both in a historical and thematic-problematic key. The course provides the tools to understand, analyze and contextualize complex texts, to deal with ethical issues and problems related to the economic and social sphere, consolidating critical-argumentative skills. At the end of the course, therefore, the student will have acquired (1) the fundamental knowledge relating to social ethics, with a picture of the main philosophers who have dealt with it throughout history (2) will develop skills in textual practice, in deepening conceptual and terminological, in argumentation, in the ability to apply knowledge of moral philosophy to the social sphere (3) will develop the necessary skills, in terms of autonomy of judgment and communication skills, which will allow him to orient himself, in a conscious and critical in matters of justice and social responsibility.