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| The Story as a Tool of Ethics | |
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| Thinking About Values | |
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| The Best of Times, the Worst of Times Good and Evil Morals, Ethics, and Values Why Be Moral? | |
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| Debating Moral Issues Martha Nussbaum | |
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| Stories Have Value Primary Reading: Martha Nussbaum | |
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| Love's Knowledge Narrative: How to Be Good Narrative | |
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| Smoke Signals Narrative: Big Fish | |
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| Learning Moral Lessons from Stories Didactic Stories | |
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| The New Interest in Stories | |
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| The Value of Stories Stories Past and Present Stories to Live and Die By Seeing | |
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| Your Life as a Story Living in the Narrative Zone Primary Reading: Plato | |
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| The Republic Primary Reading: Aristotle, Poetics Primary Reading: Umberto Eco | |
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| The Name of the Rose Primary Reading: Tristine Rainer, Your Life as Story Narrative: Medea Narrative | |
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| The Sorrows of Young Werther Narrative: Pulp Fiction | |
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| What Should I Do? Theories of Conduct | |
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| Ethical Relativism | |
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| How to Deal with Moral Differences | |
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| The Lessons of Anthropology Problems with Ethical Relativism Refuting Ethical | |
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| Relativism Ethical Relativism and Multiculturalism Primary Reading: Ruth Benedict | |
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| "Anthropology and the Abnormal" | |
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| Primary Reading: Dwight Furrow, "Of Cave Dwellers and Spirits" | |
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| Primary Reading: Bhikhu Parekh, "The Concept of Multicultural Education" | |
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| Narrative: The Poisonwood Bible Narrative: Possessing the Secret of Joy Narrative: Sideshow Narrative | |
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| Do the Right Thing | |
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| Myself or Others? | |
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| Psychological Egoism Ethical Egoism Altruism | |
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| Ideal and Reciprocal Primary Reading: Plato | |
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| The Republic Primary Reading: Erik Katz | |
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| "The Rings of Tolkien and Plato" Primary Reading: Thomas Hobbes | |
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| Leviathan Primary Reading: Ayn Rand | |
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| "The Ethics of Emergencies" Narrative: Friends Narrative: Return to Paradise Narrative | |
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| Madame Bovary Narrative: Atlas Shrugged Narrative | |
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| "The Gift of the Magi" Narrative: The Lord of the Rings | |
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| Using Your Reason, Part 1: Utilitarianism | |
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| Jeremy Bentham and the Hedonistic Calculus John Stuart Mill | |
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| Another Utilitarian Vision Act and Rule Utilitarianism Primary Reading | |
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| "Of the Principle of Utility" Primary Reading: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism Narrative: "The Blacksmith and the Baker" Narrative | |
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| The Brothers Karamazov Narrative: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | |
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| Narrative: Saving Private Ryan Narrative: Extreme Measures Narrative: Runaway Jury | |
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| Using Your Reason, Part 2: Kant's Deontology | |
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| The Good Will The Categorical Imperative Rational Beings | |
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| Are Ends in Themselves Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant | |
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| Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant | |
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| The Metaphysics of Morals Narrative: High Noon Narrative: Outland Narrative | |
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| Cop Land Narrative: Abandon Ship! Narrative: The Insider | |
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| Personhood, Rights, and Justice | |
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| What Is a Human Being? Persons and Rights Questions of Rights | |
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| Distributive Justice Criminal Justice Primary Reading | |
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| The United Nations Universal Declaration of Rights Primary Reading | |
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| "Justice as Fairness" Primary Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr. | |