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Unit 1: Murder, Morality, and the Value of Human Life
1.1: Metaethics, Normative Ethics, and Applied Ethics
1.2: Investigating Our Moral Intuitions
1.3: From Moral Intuitions to Moral Principles and Back Again
1.4: Consequentialist Ethics and Bentham's Utilitarianism
1.5: Pitfalls of Consequentialist Ethics and Mill's Utilitarianism
1.6: Alternatives to Consequentialist Ethics
Unit 1 Assessment
Unit 2: Rights, the State, and the Free Market
2.1: Individual and the State: Plato's Crito
2.2: Libertarianism as an Alternative Approach to the Question of Rights
2.3: John Locke and Fundamental Individual Rights
Unit 2 Discussion
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 3: Morality, Markets, and Immanuel Kant
3.1: The Morality of the Market
3.2: The Morality of Surrogate Motherhood: The Case of Baby M
3.3: Humans Organs as Commodities
3.4: Grounding Moral Action in Rational Principles: Immanuel Kant
3.5: Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
Unit 3 Discussion
Unit 3 Discussion
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 4: John Rawls' Theory of Justice
4.1: Social Contract Theory in Historical Focus: Thomas Hobbes
4.2: Social Contract Theory without the Contract: John Rawls
4.3: The Question of Distributive Justice
Unit 4 Discussion
Unit 4 Discussion
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Unit 5: Ethics and Politics of Virtue
5.1: Aristotle as a Champion of Merit-Based Justice
5.2: Justice Is Respect for Virtue
5.3: Virtue vs. Disability: The Case of Casey Martin
5.4: Constrained Freedom: Justice within the Bounds of a Community
5.5: Justice, the Good, and the Problem of Agreement
5.6: Cultural Relativism
5.7: Existentialist Ethics
5.8: The Relation between Morality and the Law
Unit 5 Discussion
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