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The Story as a Tool of Ethics | |
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Thinking About Values The Best of Times, the Worst of Times? Good and Evil Is Morality Hardwired? | |
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Values, Morals and Ethics Debating Moral Issues: The Role of Religion, the Law, Logic, Emotions, and Story-Telling Martha Nussbaum | |
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Stories, Ethics, and Emotions Primary Reading: Martha Nussbaum,Love's Knowledge Primary Reading | |
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The Lucifer Effect Narrative:Smoke Signals Narrative:Big Fish Narrative:East of Eden | |
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Learning Moral Lessons from Stories Didactic Stories The New Interest in Stories Across the Professions | |
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The Value of Stories in World Cultures Stories of Values Across the Ages 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: Raymond Chandler | |
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The Simple Art of Murder Narrative:Medea Narrative | |
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The Sorrows of Young Werther Narrative | |
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The Education on Mingo Narrative:Pulp Fiction | |
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What Should I Do? Theories of Conduct | |
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Ethical Relativism How to Deal with Moral Differences | |
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The Lessons of Anthropology Refuting Ethical Relativism James Rachels and Soft Universalism Ethical Relativism and Multiculturalism Primary Reading | |
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Anthropology and the Abnormal Primary Reading | |
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Dwellers and Spirits: The Problem with Moral Absolutes Primary Reading | |
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Paradox and Dream Narrative:The Poisonwood Bible Narrative | |
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Possessing the Secret of Joy Narrative:Do the Right Thing | |
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Myself or Others? | |
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Psychological Egoism: From Virginia Tech to 9/11 | |
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Psychological Egoism: From Glaucon to Hobbes Shortcomings to Psychological Egoism Ethical Egoism and Its Critics Being Selfless: Levinas's Ideal Altruism vs. Singer's Reciprocal Altruism Selfish Genes, or Fellow-Feeling? | |
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Dawkins, Midgley, Hume and de Waal Primary Reading: Plato,The Republic Primary Reading | |
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The Rings of Tolkien and Plato: Lessons in Power, Choice, and Morality Primary Reading | |
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Leviathan Primary Reading | |
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The Ethics of Emergencies Primary Reading | |
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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved Narrative:Friendsepisode: "The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS" Narrative:Return to Paradise Narrative | |
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Atlas Shrugged Narrative:The Lord of the Rings | |
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Using Your Reason, Part 1: Utilitarianism Jeremy Bentham and the Hedonistic Calculus Advantages and Problems of Sheer Numbers: From Animal Welfare to the Question of Torture | |
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Higher and Lower Pleasures Mill's Harm Principle Act and Rule Utilitarianism Primary Reading | |
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Of the Principle of Utility Primary Reading | |
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Utilitarianism Primary Reading: Peter Singer | |
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A Convenient Truth Narrative | |
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The Blacksmith and the Baker Narrative | |
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The Brothers Karamazov Narrative | |
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Narrative | |
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Extreme Measures Narrative:Runaway Jury | |
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Using Your Reason, Part 2: Kant's Deontology Consequences Don't Count | |
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Having a Good Will Does | |
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The Categorical Imperative Rational Beings Are Ends in Themselves Beings Who Are Things | |
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The Kingdom of Ends Primary Reading | |
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Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals Primary Reading | |
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The Metaphysics of Morals Narrative:High Noon Narrative:3:10 to Yuma Narrative:Match Point | |
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Personhood, Rights, and Justice What Is a Human Being? | |
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The Expansion of the Concept "Human" Personhood: The Key to Rights Science and | |
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Introduction | |
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The Nature Of Philosophy | |
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What Is Philosophy? | |
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The Word Itself | |
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The Fields of Philosophy | |
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A Rational, Critical Enterprise Differing Conceptions | |
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A Working Definition Philosophy, Religion, and Science Of Beards and Bread | |
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Where do we Begin? | |
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Professor Miller’s Four Principles | |
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in Review Readings from: Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers Plato, Apology Whitehead, Process and Reality | |
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Moore, Principia Ethica Camus | |
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""The Myth of Sisyphus"" | |
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Husserl, Ideas James, ""The Present | |
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Introduction to the Philosophical Journey: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? | |
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Overview of the Journey | |
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Socrates and the Search for Wisdom From Plato | |
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Apology From Plato, Republic | |
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave From Plato, Republic | |
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Argument and Evidence: How Do I Decide What to Believe? | |
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The Search for Knowledge | |
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Overview of the Problem of Knowledge | |
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Skepticism From | |
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Meditations on First Philosophy From | |
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Meditations on First Philosophy | |
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Empiricism From | |
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An Essay concerning Human Understanding From | |
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A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge From | |
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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding From | |
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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding From | |
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An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding From | |
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A Treatise of Human Nature | |
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Kantian Constructivism From Immanuel Kant | |
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Critique of Pure Reason | |
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Rethinking the Western Tradition: Pragmatism From | |
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Rethinking the Western Tradition: Feminist Epistemology From | |
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Persons and Their World | |
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Why People Think Computers Can't | |
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