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The Scope of Ethics
8/29 - 8/31
- Glover: The Problems (Glover 1)
- Glover: The Scope and Limits of Moral Argument (Glover 2)
- Pojman: Ethical Objectivism (Pojman 6)
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Sanctity of Life
9/5 - 9/7
- Glover: The Sanctity of Life (Glover 3)
- Englehardt: The Sanctity of Life and the Concept of a Person (Pojman 11)
- Callahan: The Sanctity of Life Principle: A New Consensus (Pojman 12)
- Philosophical Issues
9/12 - 9/21
- Glover: Actual and Potential People (Glover 4)
- Glover: Autonomy and Rights (Glover 5)
- Glover: Ends and Means: Double Effect (Glover 6)
- Glover: Not Striving to Keep Alive (Glover 7)
- Glover: Some Conclusions (Glover 8)
- Abortion
9/26 - 10/5
- Noonan: Abortion is Morally Wrong (Pojman 27)
- Glover: Abortion: The Traditional Approach (Glover 9)
- Thompson: A Defense of Abortion (Pojman 28)
- Glover: Abortion: Woman's Rights Arguments (Glover 10)
- Warren: The Personhood Argument in Favor of Abortion (Pojman 30)
- Gensler: The Golden Rule Argument Against Abortion (Pojman 31)
- Glover: Abortion Reconsidered (Glover 11)
- Glover: Infanticide (Glover 12)
- Suicide
10/10 - 10/12
- Aquinas: Suicide is Unnatural and Immoral (Pojman 19)
- Hume: On the Naturalness of Suicide (Pojman 20)
- Brandt: On the Morality and Rationality of Suicide (Pojman 21)
- Glover: Suicide and Gambling with Life (Glover 13)
- Euthanasia
10/17 - 10/26
- Kamisar: Against Legalizing Euthanasia (Pojman 23)
- Williams: For Legalizing Euthanasia: A Rejoinder (Pojman 24)
- Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia (Pojman 25)
- Sullivan: Active and Passive Euthanasia: An Impertinent Distinction
(Pojman 26)
- Glover: Voluntary Euthanasia (Glover 14)
- Glover: Euthanasia without Request (Glover 15)
- People and Numbers
10/31 - 11/2
- Glover: Numbers (Glover 16)
- Glover: Choices Between People (Glover 17)
- Execution
11/7 - 11/9
- van den Haag & Schwartz: The Death Penalty: Pro and Con (Pojman 37)
- Bedau: Against the Retributivist Justification of the Death Penalty
(Pojman 35)
- Glover: Execution and Assassination (Glover 18)
- War
11/14 - 11/16
- Narveson: A Critique of Pacifism (Pojman 47)
- Ryan: A Defense of Pacifism (Pojman 48)
- Phillips: Just War Theory (Pojman 49)
- Glover: War (Glover 19)
- Animals
11/21 - 11/30
- Kant: We Have Only Indirect Duties to Animals (Pojman 38)
- Singer: All Animals are Equal (Pojman 39)
- Regan: The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights (Pojman 41)
- White: The Case of Animal Experimentation (Pojman 42)
- Warren: Difficulties with the Strong Animal Rights Position (Pojman
44)
- Cohen: The Case Against Animal Rights (Pojman 45)
- Starvation
12/5 - 12/12
- Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor (Pojman
54)
- Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Pojman 56)
- Arthur: Rights and Duties to Bring Aid (Pojman 57)
- Glover: Moral Distance (Glover 20)
This schedule is subject to change.
Richard
Lee, rlee@comp.uark.edu,
last modified: 29 August 1995