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PHILOSOPHY 101 Ethics, Section 3 (Spring 2008)
| Tues Jan 8 | Introduction: (1) normative ethics, meta-ethics, and applied ethics. (2) What does it mean to say "X is morally wrong"? (3) Secular and religious ethics. |
| For Thurs Jan 10 | Is the factory-farming of animals morally wrong? Read Peter Singer, “Down on the Factory Farm” Read James Rachels, “A Moral Defense of Vegetarianism” |
| For Tues Jan 15 | Read Roger Scruton, “The Moral Status of Animals” Listen to Peter Singer on animals and persons at the Ethics Bites website. |
| For Thurs Jan 17 | Prepare for test #1 |
| For Tues Jan 22 | What problems are there with psychological egoism, ethical egoism, and moral relativism? Read James Rachels, “Egoism and Moral Skepticism”. Listen to Simon Blackburn on moral relativism at the Philosophy Bites website. |
| For Thurs Jan 24 | Prepare for Test #2 |
| For Tues Jan 29 | Read Louis Pojman, “Who's to Judge?” |
| For Thurs Jan 31 | Prepare for test #3 |
| For Tues Feb 5 | What is the proper role of sympathy in revising our moral principles? Read Jonathan Bennett, “The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn”. Listen to the recent discussion of guilt at the BBC's In Our Time website. |
| For Thurs Feb 7 | Prepare for test #4. |
| For Tues Feb 12 | Should we be ultilitarians? Read John Stuart Mill, “Utilitarianism”. Listen to Roger Crisp discuss Mill's utilitarianism at the Philosophy Bites website. |
| For Thurs Feb 14 | Prepare for test #5 |
| Tues Feb 19 | Reading break. No class. |
| For Thurs Feb 21 | Read Bernard Williams, “A Critique of Utilitarianism”. Listen to Brad Hooker on consequentialism at the Philosophy Bites website. Prepare for test #6 |
| For Tues Feb 26 | Should we be Kantians? Read Immanuel Kant, “Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative”. |
| For Thurs Feb 28 | Prepare for test #7 |
| For Tues March 4 | Is virtue ethics better than consequentialist and deontological views? Read Bernard Mayo, “Virtue or Duty”. |
| For Thurs March 6 | Prepare for test #8 |
| For Tues March 11 | Read Immanuel Kant, “Jealousy, Envy, and Spite”. Review and reflect on the seven deadly sins. |
| For Thurs March 13 | Prepare for test #9 |
| For Tues March 18 | Read Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil” Prepare for test #10 |
| For Thurs March 20 | Prepare for in-class explanatory essay. Choose one of these topics: (1) psychological egoism, (2) ethical relativism, (3) utilitarianism. |
| For Tues March 25 | Why should I be moral? Read Colin McGinn, “Why Not Be a Bad Person?” Read Peter Singer, “Why Act Morally?” |
| For Thurs March 27 | Prepare for test #11 |
| For Tues April 1 | Am I my brother's keeper? To what extent? Read Peter Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”. |
| For Thurs April 3 | Prepare for test #12 |
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