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Reading Assignments
(Readings from the textbook Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Peter Markie are listed by selection title, author, and chapter number. Readings labeled "photocopy" are available at New University Copies located at 11 Waverly Place.)
- For Jan. 22: Read "Right and Wrong" by Nagel (photocopy) and Euthyphro by Plato (1). Here is a handout on Divine Command Theory.
- For Jan. 24: Read "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism" by Rachels (26). Start working on the Short Essay. Be sure to read my Paper Requirements and Policies.
- For Jan. 29: Read (the first third of) Book II from Republic by Plato (1) (pp. 60-66). Also read Chapters XIII and XIV from Leviathan by Hobbes (7) (pp. 212-220). (Chapter XV might be useful too.)
- For Jan. 31: Short Essay due (at the beginning of class).
- For Feb. 5: Read "Why Contractarianism?" by Gauthier (33).
- For Feb. 12: Read "Psychological Egoism" by Feinberg (27).
- For Feb. 14: Read Chapters I and IV of An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Bentham (11) (pp. 319-321 and 328-330).
- For Feb. 21: Read Chapters 1, 2, and 4 of Utilitarianism by Mill (12).
- For Feb. 26: Read "The Diversity of Goods" by Taylor (photocopy) and "A Critique of Utilitarianism" by Williams (28). Also, get started on the First Paper.
- For Feb. 28: Read the selections from The Right and the Good by Ross (21).
- For Mar. 5: Read "Some Merits of One Form of Rule Utilitarianism" by Brandt (25).
- For Mar. 7: First Paper due (at the beginning of class).
- For Mar. 19: Read Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant (10).
- For Mar. 26: Re-read the Kant. (I mean it.)
- For Apr. 2: Read "The Right to Lie: Kant on Dealing with Evil" by Korsgaard (photocopy).
- For Apr. 4: Read "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives" by Foot (31).
- For Apr. 9: Read "Kant's Moral Philosophy" by Nelson (photocopy). Also, get started on the Second Paper.
- For Apr. 11: Read "Moral Saints" by Wolf (38).
- For Apr. 16: Read pp. 116-138 (Books I-III and V) of Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle (2).
- For Apr. 18: Second Paper due (at the beginning of class).
- For Apr. 23: Read the selections from After Virtue by MacIntyre (34) and "Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotlean Approach" by Nussbaum (photocopy).
- For Apr. 30: Final Exam
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This document was created on September 5, 2000.