M

Nature of Morality

7/5 - 7/6

• Plato, Euthyphro's indictment from Euthyphro (web)
• Lee, "The Realm of the Moral" (web)
• Shafer-Landau, "Introduction" (FOE2 1-17)

• Shafer-Landau, "Consequentialism: Its Nature and Attractions" (FOE2 117-132)
• Bentham, "Of the Principle of Utility" (web)
• Bentham, "Value of a Lot of Pleasure or Pain, How to Be Measured" (web)
• Mill, "Hedonism" (TEL2 17-26)
• Smart, "Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism" (TEL2 92-101)
• Shafer-Landau, "Consequentialism: Its Difficulties" (FOE2 133-153)

• Singer, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" (TEL2 229-236)

• Shafer-Landau, "Morality and Religion" (FOE2 61-73)

• Shafer-Landau, "The Kantian Perspective: Fairness and Justice" (FOE2 154-167)
• Kant, "The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative" (TEL2 102-114)
• Shafer-Landau, "The Kantian Perspective: Autonomy and Respect" (FOE2 168-186)
• Lee, "Kantian Ethical Theory" (web)

• Primoratz, "Justifying Legal Punishment" (TEL2 388-397)
• Nathanson, "An Eye for an Eye?" (TEL2 398-407)

M

Moral Relativism and Nihilism

7/19 - 7/20

• Gensler, "Cultural Relativism" (TEL2 198-206)
• Shafer-Landau, "Ethical Relativism" (FOE2 289-305)
• Ayer, "A Critique of Ethics" (TEL2 175-187)
• Shafer-Landau, "Moral Nihilism" (FOE2 306-319)

• Foot, "Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect" (TEL2 375-387)
• Shafer-Landau, "Ethical Pluralism and Absolute Moral Rules" (FOE2 214-231)
• Ross, "What Makes Right Acts Right?" (TEL2 126-137)
• Shafer-Landau, "Ethical Pluralism: Prima Facie Duties and Ethical Particularism" (FOE2 232-251)

• Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion" (TEL2 351-363)
• Marquis, "Why Abortion is Immoral" (TEL2 364-374)

• Mill, On Liberty, chapter 1 (web)
• Corvino, "Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jimmy Have Sex?: A Defense of Homosexuality" (TEL2 237-250)
• Huemer, "America's Unjust Drug War" (TEL2 421-435)

• Norcross, "Puppies, Pigs and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases" (TEL2 307-322)
• Taylor, "The Ethics of Respect for the Environment" (TEL2 323-335)
• Hill, "Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments" (TEL2 336-350)

N

Virtue Ethics

8/2 - 8/3

• Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics" (TEL2 138-149)
• Shafer-Landau, "Virtue Ethics" (FOE2 252-271)

• Orend, "War (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)" (web)
• Walzer, "Terrorism: A Critique of Excuses" (TEL2 282-292)
• Dershowitz, "Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist be Tortured?" (TEL2 293-306)

• LaFollette, "Licensing Parents" (TEL2 436-449)
• English, "What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?" (TEL2 450-456)

• Shafer-Landau, "Hedonism: It's Powerful Appeal" (FOE2 21-29)
• Epicurus, "Letter to Menoeceus" (TEL2 11-16)
• Shafer-Landau, "Is Happiness All That Matters?" (FOE2 30-41)
• Nozick, "The Experience Machine" (TEL2 33-36)
• Epictetus, "The Enchiridion" (web)
• Taylor, "The Meaning of Life" (TEL2 37-48)

This schedule is subject to change.