Phil 210: Ethics
Fall 2024:
Section 1: Room 5E.438
Tuesday and
Thursday, 9-10:15am
Instructor: Ted
Parent Office: Room 1.263
Office Hours:
TBA
Email: ted.parent@nu.edu.kz
Syllabus
Reading
Materials:
Handout: Pessimism about
Arguments
Handout: Intro to
Arguments
Handout: List of Argument Fallacies
Handout: Basic
Distinctions in Ethical Theory
Russ Shafer-Landau, Ethical
Subjectivism (selection)
Optional: Plato,
Euthyphro
(excerpt)
Peter Singer, Famine,
Affluence, and Moralilty
Optional: Mill,
Ch. 2: What
Utilitarianism Is from Utilitarianism
Nozick, The Experience
Machine; Sidgwick, Paradox of Hedonism; Haybron, Pleasure and
Happiness (excerpt)
Julia Annas, Being Good and Doing the
Right Thing
Aristotle, required
selections from Nichomachean Ethics
Optional:
Aristotle, additional selections from NE
Optional: Elizabeth
Anscombe, Modern
Moral Philosophy (selections)
Onora O'Neill,
"Consistency in Action" (selection)
Kant, The Categorical
Imperative
Kant, Pure Practical
Reason and the Moral Law and The Formula of Humanity
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
Marylin Frye,
"Oppression" and "Sexism" from The Politics of Reality
Optional:
Simone de Beauvoir, selections from The
Second Sex
Optional:
Judith Jarvis Thomson, A Defense of Abortion (selections)
Feinberg, Rights of Animals
and Unborn Generations (edited)
Optional: Mark
Rowlands, I
Wag; therefore, I am. Philosophy of Dogs
Rachel Fredericks,
"Courage as an Environmental Virtue"
Optional Handout: Coping with
Ecological Despair
Updated: 12 Sept 2024
St. John the Evangelist (c.
1622-1623)
Valentin de Boulogne
Ackland Art Museum, UNC-Chapel Hill