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Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week Topic
1 1. Week
INTRODUCTION:
2 2. Week
WHAT IS ETHICS, WHY BE ETHICAL?
Mark Timmons: An Introduction to Moral Theory (Ch. 1)
Plato: The Immoralist's Challenge (15)
3 3. Week
META ETHICS:
ETHICAL OBJECTIVISM AND RELATIVISM
Mark Timmons: “Moral Relativism” (Ch. 3)
Julian Baggini & Peter Fosl: “Subjectivism “2.15
G. E. Moore: “The Subject Matter of Ethics” (6)
4 4. Week
NORMATIVE ETHICS
THE GROUNDS OF NORMAtIVE ETHICS
Julian Baggini & Peter Fosl: “The Grounds of Ethics”
5 5. Week
ETHICS & RELIGION
Mark Timmons: “Divine Command Theory (Ch. 2)
Julian Baggini & Peter Fosl: Divine command 2.6
Plato: Euthyphro (23)
6 6. Week
NATURAL LAW THEORY AND CONTRACTRIANISM
Mark Timmons: “Natural Law Theory” (Ch. 4)
Julian Baggini & Peter Fosl: Natural Law 1.15 and Contractarianism 2.2.
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (62)
A Theory of Justice: John Rawls (64)
7 7. Week
DOCUMANTARY FILM

1. Term paper due
8 8. Week
ETHICS AND UTILITARIANISM
Mark Timmons: “Classical Utilitarianism” (Ch. 5)
Mark Timmons: “Contemporary Utilitarianism” (Ch. 6)
Julian Baggini & Peter Fosl: Consequentialism. 2.1
John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism (48)
9 9. Week
DEONTOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ETHICAL THEORY
Mark Timmons: “Kant’s Moral Theory” (Ch. 7)
Julian Baggini& Peter Fosl Deontological ethics 2.4
Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (55)
10 10. Week
VIRTUE ETHICS
Mark Timmons: “Virtue Ethics” (Ch. 9)
Julian Baggini & Peter Fosl: Virtue ethics 2.16
Aristotle: The Nature of Virtue: (66).
11 MORAL PLURALISM AND MORAL PARTICULARISM
Mark Timmons: “Moral Pluralism” (Ch. 8)
Mark Timmons: “Moral Particularism” (Ch. 10-11)
Julian Baggini & Peter Fosl: Particularism 2.10
W. D. Ross: What Makes Right Actions Right? (72)
12 12. Week:
APPLIED ETHICS
EQUALITY AND IT’S IMPLICATIONS:
Race, Ethnicity and Gender.
Readings: Lawrence Hinman: Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus
The Arguments
Catharine MacKinnon, "What Is Sexual Harassment?"
Susan Moller Okin, "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?"
13 13. Week
ETHICS AND WORLD POVERTY
Readings: Lawrence Hinman: Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus
The Arguments
Garrett Hardin, "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor."
Peter Singer, "Rich and Poor ."
14 14. Week
EQUALITY FOR ANIMALS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
Lawrence Hinman: Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus
Equality for Animals
The Arguments.
Tom Regan, "The Case for Animal Rights."
Peter Singer: “All Animals are Equal” (43)
Environmental Ethics.
The Arguments.
Holmes Rolston III, "Challenges in Environmental Ethics."
Aldo Leopold “Land Ethic”
 
 
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