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PHIL103: Moral and Political Philosophy
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Unit 1: Murder, Morality, and the Value of Human Life
Unit 2: Rights, the State, and the Free Market
Unit 3: Morality, Markets, and Immanuel Kant
Unit 4: John Rawls' Theory of Justice
Unit 5: Ethics and Politics of Virtue
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Major Ethical Systems
Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 1
Reflective Equilibrium
Issues of Utilitarian Ethics
R v Dudley and Stephens
Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham: Of the Principle of Utility
Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 6
Utilitarianism: The Greater Good
Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 6 con't
John Stuart Mill's
Utilitarianism
Major Ethical Perspectives
Deontological Ethics
Joseph M. Magee's "St. Thomas Aquinas on the Natural Law"
Saint Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica: Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae), Question 94, Articles 4-6
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham City Jail"
Unit 1 Assessment
Socratic Citizenship: Plato and Crito
Theory of Forms
Republic (Plato)
Plato's Republic
Plato: The State and the Soul
Plato: Education and the Value of Justice
Introduction to Adam Smith
Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman and Human Flourishing
Taxes in American History
Robert Nozick
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Excerpts from Locke's Second Treatise on Government
Democratic Values: Liberty, Equality, Justice
Locke: Social Order
John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government: Chapters 1-5
Why Do We Obey the Law?
John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government: "Chapters 8-11"
John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government: "Chapters 18 and 19"
Unit 2 Discussion
Unit 2 Assessment
How Economists Helped End the Military Draft
Michael Sandel on Markets and Morals
International Surrogacy Forum: The Free Market Approach
Kyle R. Wood's "In the Matter of Baby M., 109 N.J. 396 (1988)"
Baby M
Ethical Controversies in Organ Transplantation
Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 5
Deontology
Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals: Preface and First Section
Kantian Ethics
Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals: Second Section and Third Section
Lying to Ourselves
Immanuel Kant: The Duties of the Categorical Imperative
Unit 3 Discussion
Unit 3 Assessment
Thomas Hobbes'
Leviathan
: Chapters 13-15
The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes'
Leviathan
: Chapters 17-18
Contract & Commonwealth: Thomas Hobbes
Locke versus Hobbes
Hobbes' Dilemma
John Rawls on Just War
John Rawls'
A Theory of Justice
What is Justice?
John Rawls'
A Theory of Justice
The Economics of Inequality and Childhood Education
Restorative Justice
The Restorative Justice System: An Alternative to the Official Criminal System
Journalist's Resource: "U.S. Income Inequality Highest Since the Great Depression"
Affirmative Action 'In Action': The Case of Northern Ireland
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: Cheryl J. Hopwood v. State of Texas
The Supreme Court of the United States: Grutter v. Bollinger
Race, Racism and the Law: Fran Lisa Buntman's "Race, Reputation, and the Supreme Court"
Racial Profiling
Unit 4 Discussion
Unit 4 Assessment
Aristotle's Ethics Book II
Overview of Aristotle's "Politics"
Aristotle's
Politics
: Book One
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 3
The Supreme Court of the United States: PGA Tour, Inc. v. Casey Martin
Two Kinds of Intellectual Virtue
Aristotle's Politics: Book Three
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 7
Alasdair MacIntyre
Virtue Ethics
The Igbo Indigenous Justice System
Same Sex Marriage
The Supreme Court of the United States: Lawrence v. Texas
Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism
Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge, and Morality
The Ethics of Absolute Freedom
Ethics vs Morals
Unit 5 Discussion
Unit 5 Assessment
PHIL103 Study Guide
Course Feedback Survey
PHIL103: Certificate Final Exam
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