Schedule of Readings
| M
| Nature of Morality | ?/?? - ?/??
|
- 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)
| N
| Utilitarianism | ?/?? - ?/??
|
- 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)
| A
| Environmental Ethics | ?/??
|
- Baxtor, "People or Penquins" (PV3 ???-???)
- 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)
| M
| The Place of God in Morality | ?/??
|
- 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)
| N
| Social Contract | ?/?? - ?/??
|
- Hobbes, "On the State of Nature" (PV3 41-52)
- Scanlon, "Contractarianism and Utilitarianism" (on reserve)
| A
| War and Terrorism | ?/?? - ?/??
|
- Orend, "War (Stanford of Encyclopedia)" (web)
- Nussbaum, "Compassion and Terror" (PV3 955-979)
- Nagel, "What is Wrong with Terrorism?" (PV3 1003-1005)
- Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil" (PV3 127-140)
- Camus, "Life is Absurd" (PV3 616-623)
- Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" (PV3 681-690)
| N
| Virtue Theory | ?/?? - ?/??
|
- Aristotle, "Virtue Ethics" (PV3 409-425)
- Frankena, "A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethical Systems" (PV3 463-474)
| A
| Treatment of Animals | ?/?? - ?/??
|
- 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)
- Ayer, "Critique of Ethics and Theology" (on reserve)
- Epictetus et al., "The Stoic Catechism" (PV3 517-529)
- Stockdale, "The World of Epictetus" (PV3 538-52)
| A
| The Meaning of Life | ?/??
|
- 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)
| M
| : Metaethics |
| N
| : Normative Ethics |
| A
| :
Applied Ethics |
| E
| : Examination |
This schedule is subject to change.
Richard Lee,
rlee@uark.edu,
last modified: 1 May 2008