Note: I offer these notes here so my students can come to class and pay attention to what I am saying instead of spending so much of their time scribbling down what I put up on the overhead. So, if you are a student in Philosophy 2103, feel free to use these notes. But don't use the availability of these notes as an excuse not to come to class. Thank you.

These notes remain the intellectual property of Richard Lee and are not to be further disseminated without his permission.

• What Ethics is Not
• Approaches to the Study of Morality
• Types of Ethical Claims
• Examples of Descriptive Ethical Claims
• Examples of Normative Ethical Claims
• Examples of Metaethical Claims
• Moral Spectrum
• The Structure of Moral Reasoning
• Critiquing Moral Arguments
• Some General Normative Ethical Theories
• Approaches to Normative Ethics
• General Normative Ethical Theories
• Deontological Ethical Theories
• Utilitarianism
• Some Classical Consequentialist Theories
• Act and Rule Utilitarianism
• Utilitarianism: Theory of Morality, Theory of Life
• The Charge Against Utilitarianism
• Pleasures of the Higher Faculties
• Superiority of the Pleasures of the Higher Faculties
• Competent Judges
• Mill's Test for Quantitative Superiority
• Mill's Test for Qualitative Superiority
• Mill's Argument for Higher Pleasures
• Happiness vs. Contentment
• It is Better to Be a Human Being
• Mill: Objections and Replies
• Utilitarian Standard of Conduct
• Mill's Proof
• The Cultural Differences Argument
• The CDA: An Improved Version
• Critique of the Improved CDA
• Consequences of Relativism
• Lessons of Relativism
• Morality and Human Nature
• The Good Will
• The Good Will and Consequences
• Kant on Acting in Accordance with Duty
• Kantian Imperatives
• The Categorical Imperative: Two Formulations
• Kant's Persons as Ends Formulation
• Perfect and Imperfect Duties
• Kant's Four Examples
• Maxims
• Two Other Formulations
• Moral Dilemmas
• Ross's Division of Prima Facie Duties
• Equal in Body
• Equal in Mind - First Argument
• Equal in Mind - Second Argument
• Causes of Quarrel
• Condition of Mere Nature
• Hobbes on Injustice
• Laws of Nature (Hobbes)
• First Two Laws of Nature (Hobbes)
• Just War Theory
• Doctrine of Double Effect

[More to come]