143 Readings Schedule

For September 6:

  • “The Trolley Problem” by Judith Jarvis Thomson

For September 9:

  • “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” by James Rachels (CC 61-68)

For September 11:

  • “Euthyphro” by Plato (EP 5-15)

For September 13:

  • “Egoisms” by David Shoemaker (CC 20-35)

For September 16:

  • “Crito” by Plato (EP 55-66)

For September 18:

  • Introduction to Moral Theory (CC 1-14)

For September 20:

  • review day

For September 23:

  • Exam #1

For September 25:

  • “Letter to Menoeceus” by Epicurus

For September 27:

  • “The Principle of Utility” by Jeremy Bentham (CC 109-115)

For September 30:

  •  “Nicomachean Ethics Book I 5,7” by Aristotle

For October 2:

  • Part of “Utilitarianism” by John Stuart Mill (CC 115-120)

For October 4:

  • “Utilitarianism: Act or Rule?” by Stephen Darwall (CC 124-131)

For October 7:

  • “Against Utilitarianism” by Bernard Williams

For October 9:

  • “Utilitarianism and Justice” by J. J. C. Smart

For October 11:

  • review day

For October 14:

  • Exam #2

For October 16:

  • “The Moral Law and Autonomy of the Will” by Immanuel Kant (CC 140-152)

For October 18:

  • “Kant’s Principle of Universal Law” by Joshua Glasgow (CC 152-166)

For October 21:

  • “Kant on Treating people as Ends in Themselves” by Onora O’Neill (CC 166-171)

For October 23:

  • “On the Supposed Right to Lie…” by Immanuel Kant

For October 25:

  • Intro to rights

For October 28:

  • “The Nature of Rights” by Leif Wenar – Read only Section I

For October 30:

  • Review Day

For November 1:

  • Exam #3

For November 4:

  • Intro to value pluralism

For November 6:

  • Part of “Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle (CC 235-242)

For November 8:

  • “What Makes Right Acts Right?” by W. D. Ross (CC 312-317)

For November 11:

  • “Agonizing Decisions and Moral Pluralism” by Michael Gill (CC 317-330)

For November 13:

  • “How Strong is this Obligation?” by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (CC 330-335)

For November 15:

  • “Moral Saints” by Susan Wolf

For November 18:

  • “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” by Peter Singer

For November 20

  • Intro to unit

For November 22

  • Read “Testifying: Television” by Wendy Kaminer (EP 191-200)

For November 25

  • Read “Attention Kmart Shoppers” by James Twitchell (EP 219-228)

For December 2

  • Read “What We Are and What We Value” and “Consumed by Consumption”  by Barry Schwartz (EP 229-238)

For December 4

  • Read from “Amusing Ourselves to Death” by Neil Postman (pp. 60-67 and 71-77)