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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Story as a Tool of Ethics | |
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| Thinking About Values | |
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| Do We Need a Code of Ethics? | |
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| Values, Morals, and Ethics | |
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| Good and Evil | |
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| Debating Moral Issues from Religion to Neurobiology and Storytelling | |
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| Martha Nussbaum: Stories, Ethics, and Emotions | |
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| A Philosophical Example, a Real-Life Event, and Two Fictional Stories about Lying | |
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| Primary Reading: Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge | |
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| Primary Reading: Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect | |
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| Narrative: Smoke Signals | |
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| Narrative: Big Fish | |
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| Narrative: East of Eden | |
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| Learning Moral Lessons from Stories | |
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| Didactic Stories | |
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| The New Interest in Stories Across the Professions | |
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| The Value of Stories Across Time and Space | |
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| Are Stories Harmful? A New and Ancient Debate | |
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| Primary Reading: Plato, Republic, Book X | |
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| Primary Reading: Aristode, Poetics | |
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| Primary Reading: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose | |
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| Primary Reading: Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder" | |
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| Narrative: Medea | |
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| Narrative: The Sorrows of Young Weather | |
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| Narrative: The Education of Mingo | |
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| Narrative: Pulp Fiction | |
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| What Should I Do? Ethics 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 | |
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| Problems with Ethical Relativism | |
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| Refuting Ethical Relativism | |
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| James Rachels and Soft Universalism | |
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| Ethical Relativism and Multiculturalism | |
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| Primary Reading: Ruth Benedict, "Anthropology and the Abnormal" | |
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| Primary Reading: James Rachels, "Is Ethics Just a Matter of Social Conventions?" | |
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| Primary Reading: John Steinbeck, "Paradox and Dream" | |
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| Narrative: The Poisonwood Bible | |
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| Narrative: Possessing the Secret of Joy | |
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| Narrative: Avatar | |
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| Myself or Others? | |
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| Psychological Egoism: What About the Heroes? | |
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| Psychological Egoism: From Glaucon to Hobbes | |
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| Three Major Problems With Psychological Egoism | |
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| The Selfish-Gene Theory and Its Critics | |
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| Ethical Egoism and Ayn Rand's Objectivism | |
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| Being Selfless: Levinas's Ideal Altruism Versus Singer's Reciprocal Altruism | |
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| A Natural Fellow-Feeling? Hume and de Waal | |
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| Primary Reading: Plato, The Republic | |
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| Primary Reading: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan | |
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| Primary Reading: Ayn Rand, "The Ethics of Emergencies" | |
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| Primary Reading: Frans De Waal, Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved | |
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| Narrative: Friends episode: "The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS" | |
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| Narrative: Return to Paradise | |
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| Narrative: Atlas Shrugged | |
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| Using Your Reason, Part 1: Utilitarianism | |
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| Jeremy Bentham and the Hedonistic Calculus | |
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| Advantages and Problems of Sheer Numbers: From Animal Welfare to the Question of Torture | |
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| John Stuart Mill: Higher and Lower Pleasures | |
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| Mill's Harm Principle | |
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| Act and Rule Utilitarianism | |
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| Primary Reading: Jeremy Bentham, "Of the Principle of Utility" | |
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| Primary Reading: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism | |
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| Primary Reading: Peter Singer, "A Convenient Truth" | |
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| Narrative: "The Blacksmith and the Baker" | |
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| Narrative: The Brothers Karamazov | |
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| Narrative: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | |
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| Narrative: Extreme Measures | |
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| Narrative: The Invention of Lying | |
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| Using Your Reason, Part 2: Kant's Deontology | |
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| Consequences Don't Count-Having a Good Will Does | |
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| The Categorical Imperative | |
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| Rational Beings Are Ends in Themselves | |
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| Beings Who Are Things | |
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| The Kingdom of Ends | |
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| Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Primary Reading: Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals | |
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| Narrative: High Noon | |
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| Narrative: 3:10 to Yuma | |
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| Narrative: Abandon Ship! | |
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| Narrative: Match Point | |
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| Personhood, Rights, and justice | |
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| What Is a Human Being? | |
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| The Expansion of the Concept "Human" | |
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| Personhood: The Key to Rights | |
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| Science and Moral Responsibility: Genetic Engineering, Stem Cell Research, and Cloning | |
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| Questions of Rights and Equality | |
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| Distributive Justice: From Rawls to Affirmative Action | |
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| Forward- and Backward-Looking Justice and Affirmative Action | |
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| Criminal Justice: Restorative Versus Retributive Justice | |
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| Primary Reading: The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| Primary Reading: J�rgen Habermas, The Future of Human Nature | |
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| Primary Reading: John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness" | |
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| Primary Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Letter from Birmingham Jail" | |
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| Primary Reading: John Berteaux, "Defining Racism in the 21st Century" | |
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| Primary Reading: John Berteaux, "Unseen, Unheard, Unchosen" | |
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| Narrative: The Island | |
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| Narrative: Gattaca | |
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| Narrative: Mississippi Burning | |
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| Narrative: Hotel Rwanda | |
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| How Should I Be? Virtue Ethics | |
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| Virtue Ethics from Tribal Philosophy to Socrates and Plato | |
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| What Is Virtue? What Is Character? | |
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| Non-Western Virtue Ethics: Africa and Indigenous America | |
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| Virtue Ethics in the West | |
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| The Good Teacher: Socrates' Legacy, Plato's Works | |
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| The Good Life | |
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| The Virtuous Person: The Tripartite Soul | |
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| Plato's Theory of Forms | |
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| Plato's Influence on Christianity | |
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| Primary Reading: Plato, The Republic | |
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| Primary Reading: Plato, Apology | |
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| Primary Reading: Ronald Dworkin, What Is a GoodLife? | |
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| Narrative: A Man for All Seasons | |
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| Narrative: "The Myth of the Cave" | |
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| Narrative: The Truman Show | |
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| Narrative: The Store of the Worlds | |
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| Aristotle's Virtue Theory: Everything in Moderation | |
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| Empirical Knowledge and the Realm of the Senses | |
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| Aristode the Scientist | |
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| Aristode's Virtue Theory: Teleology and the Golden Mean | |
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| Aristode's Influence on Aquinas | |
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| Some Objections to Greek Virtue Theory | |
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| Primary Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II | |
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| Primary Reading: Aristode, Nicomachean Ethics, Book III | |
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| Narrative: "The Flight of Icarus" | |
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| Narrative: Njal's Saga | |
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| Narrative: Lord Jim | |
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| Narrative: "A Piece of Advice" | |
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| Contemporary Perspectives | |
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| Ethics and the Morality of Virtue as Political Concepts | |
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| Have Virtue, and Then Go Ahead: Mayo, Foot, and Sommers | |
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| The Quest for Authenticity: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Levinas | |
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| Primary Reading: S�ren Kierkegaard, Johannes Climacus | |
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| Primary Reading: S�ren Kierkegaard, Either/Or | |
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| Primary Reading: Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism Is a Humanism" | |
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| Primary Reading: "The Paradox of Morality: An Interview with Emmanuel Levinas" | |
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| Primary Reading: Dwight Furrow, A Culture of Care | |
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| Narrative: Groundhog Day | |
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| Narrative: No Exit | |
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| Narrative: Good Will Hunting | |
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| Narrative: The Searchers | |
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| Case Studies in Virtue | |
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| Courage of the Physical and Moral Kind | |
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| Compassion: From Hume to Huck Finn | |
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| Gratitude: Asian Tradition and Western Modernity | |
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| Virtue and Conduct: The Option of Soft Universalism | |
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| Diversity, Politics, and Common Ground? | |
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| Primary Reading: John McCain, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life | |
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| Primary Reading: Philip Hallie, Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm | |
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| Primary Reading: Jesse Prinz, Js Empathy Necessary for Morality? | |
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| Primary Reading: Lin Yutang, "On Growing Old Gracefully" | |
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| Narrative: Courage: Band of Brothers, Third Episode, "Carentan" | |
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| Narrative: Courage: True Grit | |
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| Narrative: Compassion: "The Parable of the Good Samaritan" | |
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| Narrative: Compassion: Schindler's List | |
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| Narrative: Gratitude: Eat Drink Man Woman | |
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| Narrative: Gratitude: Pay It Forward | |
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| Different Gender, Different Ethics? | |
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| Feminism and Virtue Theory | |
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| What Is Gender Equality? | |
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| Women's Historical Role in the Public Sphere | |
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| The Rise of Modern Feminism | |
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| Classical, Difference, and Radical Feminism | |
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| Primary Reading: Harriet Taylor Mill, "Enfranchisement of Women" | |
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| Primary Reading: Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex | |
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| Primary Reading: Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice | |
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| Narrative: A Doll's House | |
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| Narrative: Maids of Misfortune | |
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| Narrative: "The Woman Destroyed" | |
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| Narrative: A Thousand Splendid Suns | |
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| Applied Ethics: A Sampler | |
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| The Question of Abortion and Personhood | |
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| Euthanasia as a Right to Choose? | |
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| Media Ethics and Media Bias | |
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| Business Ethics: The Rules of the Game | |
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| Just War Theory | |
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| Animal Welfare and Animal Rights | |
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| Ethics of the Environment: Think Globally, Act Locally | |
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| The Death Penalty | |
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| The Ethics of Self-Improvement: Narrative Identity | |
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| A Final Word | |
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| Primary Reading: Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick, "Ethics as a Vehicle for Media Quality" | |
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| Primary Reading: Amber Levanon Seligson and Laurie Choi, "Critical Elements of an Organizational Ethical Culture" | |
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| Primary Reading: Scott Gottlieb, "How Safe Is Our Food? FDA Could Do Better" | |
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| Primary Reading: John Rawls, The Law of Peoples | |
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| Primary Reading: Great Ape Project, "The Declaration on Great Apes" | |
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| Primary Reading: Lee Hall and Anthony Jon Waters, "From Property to Person: The Case of Evelyn Hart" | |
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| Primary Reading: Severin Carrell, "Al Gore: Clear Proof That Climate Change Causes Extreme Weather" | |
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| Primary Reading: Myles Allen, "Al Gore is Doing a Disservice to Science by Overplaying the Link Between Climate Change and Weather" | |
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| Primary Reading: Tom Sorell, "Two Ideals and the Death Penalty" | |
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| Primary Reading: Mark Fuhrman, Death and Justice: An Expos� of Oklahoma's Death Row Machine | |
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| Narrative: Media Ethics/Business Ethics: State of Play | |
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| Narrative: Business Ethics: The Insider | |
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| Narrative: Business Ethics/Environmental Ethics: Cold Wind | |
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| Narrative: The Death Penalty: "The Jigsaw Man" | |
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| Narrative: The Death Penalty: The Life of David Gale | |
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| Credits | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |