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Nature of Morality

5/21 - 5/22

• Plato, Euthyphro's indictment from Euthyphro (web)
• Lee, "The Realm of the Moral" (web)
• Pojman, "On the Nature and Purpose of Morality" (PV3 31-40)

• Bentham, "Classical Utilitarianism (PV3 239-244)
• Mill, "Utilitarianism Refined" (PV3 245-249)
• Nielsen, "A Defense of Utilitarianism" (PV3 250-265)
• Williams, "Against Utilitarianism" (PV3 265-277)

• Fried, "The Evil of Lying" (PV3 362-372)

• Pojman, "The Case Against Moral Relativism" (PV3 166-191)

• Kant, "The Moral Law" (PV3 309-328)
• Frankena, "Kant's Theory" (PV3 329-332)
• Lee, "Kantian Ethical Theory" (web)

• Brock, "Voluntary Euthanasia (PV3 831-853)
• Gay-Williams, "The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia" (PV3 853-859)
• Rachels, "Active and Passive Euthanasia" (PV3 859-866)

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The Place of God in Morality

6/5

• Tim Holt, "The Divine Command Theory" (web)
• Plato, "Does Morality Depend on Religion?" (PV3 372-375)
• Tim Holt, "The Euthyphro Dilemma" (web)

• Ross, "Intuitionism" (PV3 333-347)

• Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion" (PV3 788-807)
• Warren, "Abortion is Morally Permissible" (PV3 807-816)
• English, "The Moderate Position" (PV3 816-827)
• Marquis, "Why Abortion is Immoral" (PV3 766-787)

• Nagel, "Moral Luck" (PV3 376-388)

• Hobbes, "On the State of Nature" (PV3 41-52)
• Hooker, "Scanlon's Contractualism, the Spare Wheel Objection, and Aggregation" part 1 (web)

• Orend, "War (Stanford of Encyclopedia)" (web)
• Honderich, "Palestinian Terrorism, Morality and Germany" (web)
• Honderich, "After the Terror: a book and further thoughts" (web)
• Nussbaum, "Compassion and Terror" (PV3 955-979)
• Pojman, "The Cosmopolitan Response to Terrorism" (PV3 980-1002)
• Nagel, "What is Wrong with Terrorism?" (PV3 1003-1005)

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Existentialism

6/19

• Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil" (PV3 127-140)
• Camus, "Life is Absurd" (PV3 616-623)
• Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" (PV3 681-690)

• Aristotle, "Virtue Ethics" (PV3 409-425)
• Frankena, "A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethical Systems" (PV3 463-474)

• Kant, "We Have Only Indirect Duties to Animals" (PV3 877-879)
• Singer, "Animal Liberation" (PV3 879-895)
• Cohen, "The Case Against Animal Rights" (PV3 896-901)

• Taylor, "On the Origin of Good and Evil" (PV3 141-153)

• Epictetus et al., "The Stoic Catechism" (PV3 517-529)
• Stockdale, "The World of Epictetus" (PV3 538-52)

• Epicurus, "Hedonism" (PV3 609-615)
• Nozick, "The Experience Machine" (PV3 644-647)
• Camus, "Life is Absurd" (PV3 616-623)
• Walker, "Religion Gives Meaning to Life" (PV3 623-630)
• Frankl, "The Human Search for Meaning" (PV3 630-638)

This schedule is subject to change.