Phil 7 - Introduction to Ethics
Long
Beach City College Summer 2002
Instructor: Brian W. Carver
Syllabus
Readings Online
Plato - Euthyphro
John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism (start
with Ch. 2)
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
(read the excerpt in the text!)
U.S. Supreme Court - Roe
vs. Wade (complete text)
"Power
Steer" - Michael Pollan (NYTimes March 31, 2002)
"Should You
Be a Vegetarian?" (Time Magazine July 7, 2002)
Beef
Industry "Factoid" Fighter (beef.org May 2002)
ConAgra
to Recall 18 Million Pounds of Beef (NYTimes July 19, 2002)
"When a Crop
Becomes King" - Michael Pollan (NYTimes July 19, 2002)
Various Authors - What We're
Fighting For: A Letter from America (Feb. 12, 2002)
Thomas Jefferson - The
Declaration of Independence
George Washington - Farewell
Address
Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg
Address and Second
Inaugural Address
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Letter
from the Birmingham Jail
Flaws
in US Air War Left Hundreds of Civillians Dead (NYTimes July 21, 2002)
Study Guides
Ethical Theory
Plato - Euthyphro
William H. Shaw - Relativism
in Ethics
Louis P. Pojman
- A Defense of Ethical Objectivism
John Stuart Mill
- Utilitarianism
James Rachels –
The Debate over Utilitarianism
Thomas Hobbes -
Contractual Ethics
Onora O'Neill - A Simplified Account of Kant's Ethics
Abortion
U.S. Supreme Court
- Roe vs. Wade
John T. Noonan Jr.
- Abortion is Morally Wrong
Judith Jarvis Thomson
– A Defense of Abortion
Baruch Brody - Against
an Absolute Right to Abortion
Mary Ann Warren -
The Personhood Argument in Favor of Abortion
Don Marquis - Why
Abortion is Immoral
Gerald Paske - Abortion
and the Neo-Natal Right to Life
Animal Rights
Immanuel Kant - We Have Only Indirect Duties to Animals
Peter
Singer - All Animals are Equal
R. G. Frey - A Utilitarian
Critique of Animal Rights
Tom Regan - The Radical
Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights
Mary Ann Warren -
Difficulties with the Strong Animal Rights Position
James Rachels -
Vegetarianism and "The Other Weight Problem"
War
Robert Phillips
- Just War Theory
Various Authors
- What We're Fighting For: A Letter from America (Feb. 12, 2002)
Jan Narveson - A
Critique of Pacifism
Cheyney Ryan - A Defense
of Pacifism
The U.S. Catholic
Bishops - Against the Use of Nuclear Weapons
Charles Krauthammer
- On Nuclear Morality
Educational and Other Resources
Me. (The first place you should turn if you are having
trouble in the course.)
Ethics Web
Site by Lawrence M. Hinman (Lots of stuff here!)
Fast
Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Philosophers use fancy words: Look them up!
How to get a free web-based
e-mail address
Exam Results
Exam #1 on Ethical Theory
Exam #2 on Abortion
Exam #3 on Animal Rights
Exam #4 on War