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Thinking About Ethics | |
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Ethics and Critical Thinking | |
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Studying Ethics | |
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God's Commandments and Ethics | |
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Religion and Ethics | |
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Reading: Plato, Euthyphro | |
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Exercises | |
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Ethics and Reason | |
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Reasoning about Ethics | |
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Elements of Kantian Ethics | |
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Criticisms of Kantian Ethics | |
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Conclusion | |
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Reading: Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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Exercises | |
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Ethics and Emotions | |
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Follow Your Reason or Follow Your Heart? | |
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Objective and Subjective Feelings | |
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Intuitionism | |
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Conclusion | |
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Reading: Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature | |
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Exercises | |
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Utilitarian Ethics | |
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Utilitarian Theory | |
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Act- vs. Rule-Utilitarians | |
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Utiliatarians and the Quality of Pleasures | |
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Criticisms of Utilitarian Ethics | |
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Nozicks Challenge to Utilitarian Ethics The Uses of Utilitarian Ethics | |
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Opposition to Utilitarianism | |
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Reading: Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | |
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Reading: Mill, What Utilitarianism Is | |
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Exercises | |
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Social Contract Ethics | |
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Framing the Social Contract | |
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Fairness and Social Contract Theory: John Rawls | |
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Gauthier's Contractarian Ethics | |
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The Social Contract Myth and its Underlying Assumptions | |
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Conclusion | |
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Reading: Hobbes, Leviathan | |
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Exercises | |
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Egoism, Relativism, and Pragmatism | |
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Egoism | |
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Relativism | |
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Pragmatism | |
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Readings: Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope | |
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Exercises | |
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Virtue Ethics | |
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The Distinctive Focus of Virtue Ethics | |
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The Strengths of Virtue Ethics | |
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Criticisms of Virtue Theory | |
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Virtue Theory and Medicine | |
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Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics | |
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Exercises | |
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Care Ethics | |
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The Neglect of Women's Ethical Views | |
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The Care Perspectives on Ethics | |
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Women and Ethics | |
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Reading: Baier, The Need for More than Justice | |
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Exercises | |
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The Scope of Mortality | |
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Who is Due Moral Consideration? Moral Agents | |
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Darwin and the Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals | |
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Reading: Darwin, The Descent of Man | |
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Reading: Frans de Waal, Primates and Philosophers | |
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Exercises | |
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Ethical NonObjectivism | |
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The Nature of Ethical Nonobjectivism | |
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Arguments for Ethical Nonobjectivism | |
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The Continuing Struggle Between Objectivists and Nonobjectivists | |
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Reading: Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic | |
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Exercises | |
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Moral Realism | |
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Contemporary Moral Realism | |
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Moral Realism and the Argument from Simplicity | |
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Moral Facts and Scientific Revolutions | |
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Two Ways that Moral Realism Might Fail | |
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Reading: Smith, Realism | |
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Exercises | |
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How Hard is Ethics? | |
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The Demands of Ethical Living | |
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Comparing Ethical Systems on the Basis of Difficulty | |
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Duty and Feelings | |
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Reading: Mencius, Book of Mencius | |
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Exercises | |
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Free Will | |
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Determinism | |
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Fatalism | |
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Determinism and Free Will | |
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Libertarian Free Will and the Rejection of Determinism | |
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Reading: Wolf, Asymmetrical Freedom | |
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Exercises | |
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Freedom, Moral Responsibility, and Ethics | |
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Types of Responsibility | |
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Moral Responsibility and the Utility of Punishment | |
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Conditions for Moral Responsibility | |
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Moral Responsibility and Ethics | |
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Conclusion | |
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Reading: Nagel, Moral Luck | |
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Exercises | |
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The Death Penalty | |
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The Death Penalty Should Be Abolished | |