Instructor: Richard Lee
(Office hours)
Course number: PHIL 4123 (ISIS
number: 6314 )
Time: MWF 1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
Room:
Main 203
- Brief Description:
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Why did Kant think it was wrong to make promises one has no intention
of keeping? Why did Mill think it better to be a human being
dissatisfied than a pig satisfied?
It
is questions of this nature that will be addressed in this course.
It will involve a careful examination of thoughts about happiness and
right and wrong by the greatest minds in western civilization from the
beginning of philosophical thought to 100 years ago.
The ethical theories of Socrates, Plato,
Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus,
Aquinas, Hobbes, Butler, Hume, Kant, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche,
and Moore.
- Text:
- Oliver A. Johnson & Andrews Reath, editors, Ethics:
Selections from Classical and Contemporary Writers
9th edition (Wadsworth, 2004) ISBN: 0-15-505864-9
Other information:
Richard Lee,
rlee@uark.edu,
last modified: 5 December 2004