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PHIL103: Moral and Political Philosophy
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COURSE INTRODUCTION
Course Syllabus
Unit 1: Murder, Morality, and the Value of Human Life
1.1: Metaethics, Normative Ethics, and Applied Ethics
Major Ethical Systems
1.2: Investigating Our Moral Intuitions
Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 1
1.3: From Moral Intuitions to Moral Principles and Back Again
Reflective Equilibrium
1.4: Consequentialist Ethics and Bentham's Utilitarianism
Issues of Utilitarian Ethics
R v Dudley and Stephens
Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham: Of the Principle of Utility
Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 6
1.5: Pitfalls of Consequentialist Ethics and Mill's Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism: The Greater Good
Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 6 con't
John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism
1.6: Alternatives to Consequentialist Ethics
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
Unit 1 Assessment
Unit 2: Rights, the State, and the Free Market
2.1: Individual and the State: Plato's Crito
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
2.2: Libertarianism as an Alternative Approach to the Question of Rights
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
2.3: John Locke and Fundamental Individual Rights
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 Discussion
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 3: Morality, Markets, and Immanuel Kant
3.1: The Morality of the Market
How Economists Helped End the Military Draft
Michael Sandel on Markets and Morals
3.2: The Morality of Surrogate Motherhood: The Case of Baby M
International Surrogacy Forum: The Free Market Approach
Kyle R. Wood's "In the Matter of Baby M., 109 N.J. 396 (1988)"
Baby M
3.3: Humans Organs as Commodities
Ethical Controversies in Organ Transplantation
3.4: Grounding Moral Action in Rational Principles: Immanuel Kant
Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 5
Deontology
Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals: Preface and First Section
Kantian Ethics
3.5: Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
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 Discussion
Unit 3 Discussion
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 4: John Rawls' Theory of Justice
4.1: Social Contract Theory in Historical Focus: Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan: Chapters 13-15
The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan: Chapters 17-18
Contract & Commonwealth: Thomas Hobbes
Locke versus Hobbes
4.2: Social Contract Theory without the Contract: John Rawls
Hobbes' Dilemma
John Rawls on Just War
John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
What is Justice?
John Rawls' A Theory of Justice
4.3: The Question of Distributive 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 Discussion
Unit 4 Discussion
Unit 4 Assessment
Unit 4 Assessment
Unit 5: Ethics and Politics of Virtue
5.1: Aristotle as a Champion of Merit-Based Justice
Aristotle's Ethics Book II
Overview of Aristotle's "Politics"
Aristotle's Politics: Book One
5.2: Justice Is Respect for Virtue
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 3
5.3: Virtue vs. Disability: The Case of Casey Martin
The Supreme Court of the United States: PGA Tour, Inc. v. Casey Martin
Two Kinds of Intellectual Virtue
Aristotle's Politics: Book Three
5.4: Constrained Freedom: Justice within the Bounds of a Community
A Romp Through Ethics for Complete Beginners: Part 7
Alasdair MacIntyre
Virtue Ethics
The Igbo Indigenous Justice System
5.5: Justice, the Good, and the Problem of Agreement
Same Sex Marriage
The Supreme Court of the United States: Lawrence v. Texas
5.6: Cultural Relativism
Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism
5.7: Existentialist Ethics
Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge, and Morality
The Ethics of Absolute Freedom
5.8: The Relation between Morality and the Law
Ethics vs Morals
Unit 5 Discussion
Unit 5 Discussion
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 5 Assessment
Study Guide
PHIL103 Study Guide
Course Feedback Survey
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PHIL103: Certificate Final Exam
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