| Classic Hedonism | |
| -- 8/28 -- | |
| Epicurus, Principal Doctrines, selection | web |
| Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus, selection | web |
| -- 9/4 -- | |
| Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, Chapter 4 | web |
| Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapters 1, 2, 4 | web |
| -- 9/11 -- | |
| Mill, continued | |
| -- 9/18 -- | |
| Carson, Chapter 1: "Arguments for Hedonism" | Carson |
| Carson, Chapter 2: "Objections to the Hedonistic Theory of Value" | Carson |
| -- 9/25 -- | |
| Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1-9 | web |
| -- 10/2 -- | |
| Carson, Chapter 5: "Human Purpose and Human Nature: Aristotlean Theories of Value" | Carson |
| -- 10/9 -- | |
| Ralph Barton Perry, General Theory of Value, chapter 5: "Value as Any Object of Interest," especially sections 49 & 50 | "reserve" |
| -- 10/16 -- | |
| Carson, Chapter 3: "The Desire/Preference Satisfaction Theory of Value" | Carson |
| -- 10/23 -- | |
| John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Chapter VII, "Goodness as Rationality" | (on reserve in Mullins as JC578.R38) |
| -- 10/30 -- | |
| Charles S. Stevenson, "Value-Judgments: Their Implicity
Generality" in Norman Bowie, editor, Ethical Theory in the last quarter of the twentieth century | "reserve" |
| -- 11/6 -- | |
| J. L. Mackie, "The Subjectivity of Values" chapter 1 of EThics: Inventing Right and Wrong | "reserve" |
| -- 11/13 -- | |
| David O. Brink, "Moral Realism and the Scepitcal Arguments from Disagreement and Queerness" | "reserve" |
| -- 11/20 -- | |
| Carson, Chapter 7: "Moral/Axiological Realism" | Carson |
| -- 11/27 -- | |
| Carson, Chapter 6: "The Concept of Value: A Pragmatic Approach" | Carson |
| -- 12/3 -- | |
| Carson, Chapter 8: "The Concept of Rationality as a Basis for Normative Theories," sections I - VII | Carson |
| -- 12/10 -- | |
| Carson, Chapter 8: "The Concept of Rationality as a Basis for Normative Theories," sections VIII - X | Carson |
This schedule is subject to change.