PHIL 240:  Introduction to Philosophical Ethics

Course Description

Syllabus

Reading Assignments

End of Class Questions

Exam #1 Review Questions (to be distributed in class on Friday, June 27).

Exam #2 Review Questions (to be distributed in class on Wed., July 9).

Final Exam Review Questions (to be distributed in class on Friday, July 18).

 

Link to Chapter 5 of Mill's Autobiography, "A Crisis in my Mental History"

Link to Jean-Paul Sartre's "Existentialism is a Humanism"

 

Written Assignments

 

Transparencies (Those Currently Available are Underlined.  Those not Underlined Will Be Available Later in the Course): 

·       Introduction

·       Logical Terminology (To be used in conjunction with the Handout #3)

·       The Divine Command Theory and the Original Euthyphro Question

·       Egoism

·       Relativism and Non-Relativism

·       Consequentialist Ethical Theories

·       Deontological Ethical Theories

·       Collective Action Problems

·       Non-Cognitivist Ethical Theories

·       Aristotle and Virtue Ethics

·       What Kind of Reason is There to be Moral?

 

Other Handouts (Those Currently Available Are Underlined.  Those That Are Not Underlined Will Be Available Later In The Course):

 

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