Date to be discussed

Reading

Wednesday, Sept.64

Introductory session

Friday, Sept.7

Classes cancelled for convocation

Monday, Sept.10

Rachels and Pellegrino on euthanasia, Applied Ethics, pp.166-183

Wednesday, Sept.12

Mill, Utilitarianism, to bottom of p.17

Friday, Sept.14

Mill, Utilitarianism, to p.26 (End of Chapter 2)

Monday, Sept.17

Mill, Utilitarianism, to p.41 (Chapters 3 and 4)

Wednesday, Sept.19

No new reading, small group discussion project in class today

Friday, Sept.21

Kant Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Section 1

Monday, Sept.25

Kant Grounding…, Section 2, through page 33

Wednesday, Sept.26

Kant Grounding…, Section 2, pp. 33-48

Friday, Sept.28

No new reading, small group discussion project in class today

Monday, Oct.1

Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapter 5

Wednesday, Oct.3

Intro to chapter on capital punishment in Applied Ethics, pp.238-247 and article by Bedau pp.248-259

Friday, Oct.5

Articles by van den Haag (pp.260-265) and Primoratz (pp.284-294) in Applied Ethics

Monday, Oct.8

Amsterdam in Applied Ethics, pp.277-283

Wednesday, Oct.10

Singer and Hardin in Applied Ethics, pp.358-380

Friday, Oct.12

Van Wyk in Applied Ethics, pp.381-390

Monday, Oct.15

Hospers, in Applied Ethics, pp. 311-322  - 1st paper due

Wednesday, Oct.17

Govier, in Applied Ethics, pp. 328-341

Friday, Oct.19

Rawls in Applied Ethics, pp. 38-44 (skip the last section of this selection) plus more Rawls in a handout, online here; notes on Rawls here and here

Monday, Oct.22

Review 

Wednesday, Oct.24

Mid-term Exam - list of potential test questions

Friday, Oct.26

No class – Midterm Break

Monday, Oct.29

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book I

Wednesday, Oct. 31

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book II

Friday, Nov.2

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book III and Book IV (as much as you can stand)

Monday, Nov.5

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book VI 

Wednesday, Nov.7

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book X

Friday, Nov.9

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX

Monday, Nov.12

Philippa Foot, "Virtues and Vices" in Applied Ethics;  Selections from Aristotle's Politics on Slaves and Women, online here

Wednesday, Nov.14

Alan Soble, "Philosophy of Sexuality", sections 6 ("Sexual Perversion") through 13 ("Natural Law vs. Liberal Ethics") online here; Levin, "Why Homosexuality Is Abnormal" in Applied Ethics, pp.675-680 

Friday, Nov.16

Monday, Nov.19

Wednesday, Nov.21

Friday, Nov.23

No class

Monday, Nov.26

Wednesday, Nov.28

Friday, Nov.30

Introduction to Chapter 8 pp.539-540 and Mill, selections from On Liberty in Applied Ethics, pp.550-558

Monday, Dec.3

Introduction to Chapter 8 pp.541-545;  Gastil, "The Moral Right of the Majority to Restrict Obscenity and Pornography Through Law" in Applied Ethics, pp. 569-579.

Wednesday, Dec.5

Introduction to Chapter 8 pp.545-546; Lynn, "Pornography and Free Speech" in Applied Ethics, pp. 559-568.  A book by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon on pornography and civil rights, which articulates the position Lynn is criticizing, is online here. 

Friday, Dec7

Langton, "Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts" in Applied Ethics, pp.602-625.

Monday, Dec.10

 2nd paper due (assignment here)  - no new reading

Wednesday, Dec.12

Lawrence, "If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus"  in Applied Ethics, pp.639-652.

Review - Possible exam questions here

Monday, Dec.17, 10-12

Final Exam (Section 1 - i.e., the class that normally meets at 9:10) - Possible exam questions here