Spring
2008 – Tentative Reading/Exam Schedule
_________________________________________________________________Week 1
Tuesday, Jan. 14 Introduction to Course Objectives
Thursday, Jan. 16 no assigned reading
_________________________________________________________________Week 2
Tuesday, Jan. 22 David Hume, “A Dialogue…” (Text, p4-12)
Thursday, Jan. 24 James Rachels, “The Challenge…” (Text, p.12-21)
_________________________________________________________________Week 3
Tuesday, Jan. 29 Plato, “Moral Forms”, (Text, 24-29)
Plato,
The Cave Allegory
Thursday, Jan. 31 Inclement Weather – Class Canceled.
Paper
assignment – check email
Click here for Ted Bundy quote
_________________________________________________________________Week 4
Tuesday, Feb. 5 J.L. Mackie, “The Subjectivity of Values” (Text,
p29-38)
Thursday, Feb. 7 Egoism/Altruism
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Week 5
Tuesday, Feb. 12 EXAM I
Thursday, Feb. 14 TBA
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Week 6
Tuesday, Feb. 19 Plato, “The Apology”
Thursday, Feb. 21 Aristotle, Nichomachean
Ethics, Book I
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Week 7
Tuesday, Feb. 26 Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book 2 (Text, p144-151).
Louden, “On
Some Vices of Virtue Ethics” (Text, 167-174).
Thursday, Feb. 28 Handout –
summary/criticisms of virtue ethics
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Week 8
Tuesday, Mar. 4 Jeremy Bentham, “The Principle of Utility”
(Text, p310-312).
J.S.
Mill, from “Utilitarianism” (Text, p313-326).
Thursday, Mar. 6 Handouts,
________________________________________________________________ Week 10
MON., Mar. 17 – FRI,
Mar. 21 – SPRING BREAK!
Tuesday, Mar. 25 Kant, from “The Foundations…” (Text,
p258-267).
Thursday, Mar. 27 Eric Watkins, “Kant’s Cat. Imperative,” (Text,
p268-274).
Korsgaard,
“The Right to Lie: Kant on Dealing with Evil” (forthcoming)
_______________________________________________________________ Week 11
Tuesday, Apr. 1 Plato, The Euthyphro Dilemma (Text,
p43-44).
Kai
Nielson, “God and the Basis of Morality,” (Text, p70-77).
Thursday, Apr. 3 CATCH UP!
_______________________________________________________________ Week 12
Tuesday, Apr. 8 EXAM
II
Thursday, Apr. 10 Sartre, “Existentialism”
Richard
Taylor, “Is a Phil. Ethics Possible?”
_______________________________________________________________ Week 13
Tuesday, Apr. 15 “Statement by Alabama Clergymen”
MLK Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Thursday, Apr. 17 Hippocrates, “Hippocratic Oath” (Text, p389).
Sullivan, “Active and Passive
Euthanasia,” (Text, p395-398).
Rachels,
“More Impertinent Distinctions…” (Text, p399-406).\
_______________________________________________________________ Week 14
Tuesday, Apr. 22 Richard Taylor, “The Singer Revolution”
Thursday, Apr. 24 Tom Regan “The Case for Animal Rights” (Text,
p.464-472)
Peter Singer, “What Should a Billionaire Give …”
Peter
Singer, “Rich
and Poor”
_______________________________________________________________ Week 15
Tuesday, Apr. 29 Ted
Honderlich, “Omissions and Terrorism”
Review
for Final
Thursday, May. 1 Exam III
