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PHIL103: Moral and Political Philosophy
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Course Introduction
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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Steve McCartney and Rick Parent’s
Ethics in Law Enforcement
: “Chapter 2: Ethical Systems”
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "The Moral Side of Murder"
University of Hong Kong's Critical Thinking Web: Professor Jonathan Chan's "Tutorial U06: Reflective Equilibrium”
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "The Case for Cannibalism"
Wikipedia: "R v Dudley and Stephens"
PhilosophyPages: Garth Kemerling's "Utilitarianism, J.S. Mill"
Jeremy Bentham's
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
: "Chapter I: Of the Principle of Utility"
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Putting a Price Tag on Life"
The Business Ethics Workshop
, v1.0: "Chapter 3, Section 2: Utilitarianism: The Greater Good"
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "How to Measure Pleasure"
John Stuart Mill's
Utilitarianism
Introduction to the Law of Property, Estate Planning and Insurance,
v1.0: "Chapter 2, Section 2: Major Ethical Perspectives"
Wikipedia: "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
Yale University: Stephen Smith's "Socratic Citizenship: Plato,
Crito
"
Wikipedia: "Theory of Forms"
Wikipedia: "
Republic
(Plato)"
Garth Kemerling's "Plato: The State and the Soul"
Garth Kemerling's "Plato: Education and the Value of Justice"
Plato's Republic
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Free to Choose"
Wikipedia: "Milton Friedman"
Freedom and Flourishing: Winton Bates' "What Did Milton Friedman Have to Say About Human Flourishing?"
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Who Owns Me?"
Wikipedia: "Robert Nozick"
Wikipedia:
"Anarchy, State, and Utopia"
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "This Land Is Your Land"
USHistory.org: "Democratic Values: Liberty, Equality, Justice"
PhilosophyPages: Garth Kemerling's "Locke: Social Order"
John Locke's
Second Treatise on Civil Government
: "Chapters 1-5"
John Locke's
Second Treatise on Civil Government
: "Chapters 8-11"
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Consenting Adults"
John Locke's
Second Treatise on Civil Government
: "Chapters 18 and 19"
Unit 2 Discussion
Unit 2 Assessment
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Hired Guns?"
Rationally Speaking: Massimo Pigliucci's "Michael Sandel on Markets and Morals"
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "For Sale: Motherhood"
Kyle R. Wood's "In the Matter of Baby M., 109 N.J. 396 (1988)"
Wikipedia: "Baby M"
Ehtuish Ehtuish's "Ethical Controversies in Organ Transplantation" from
Understanding the Complexities of Kidney Transplantation
, Jorge Ortiz and Jason Andre, Eds.
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Mind Your Motive"
Yale University: Tamar Szabó Gendler's "Deontology"
Immanuel Kant's
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
: Preface and First Section
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "The Supreme Principle of Morality"
Immanuel Kant's
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
: Second Section and Third Section
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "A Lesson in Lying"
The Business Ethics Workshop
, v1.0: "Chapter 2, Section 3: 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
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "A Deal Is a Deal"
Bill Soderberg: "John Rawls on Just War"
John Rawls'
A Theory of Justice
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "What's a Fair Start?"
John Rawls'
A Theory of Justice
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "What Do We Deserve?"
Wikipedia: "Restorative Justice"
Monica Pocora's "The Restorative Justice System: An Alternative to the Official Criminal System"
Harvard Kennedy School, Shorenstein Center and Carnegie-Knight Initiative: Journalist's Resource: "U.S. Income Inequality Highest Since the Great Depression"
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Arguing Affirmative Action"
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"
Philosophy, et cetera: Richard Chappell's "Racial Profiling"
Unit 4 Discussion
Unit 4 Assessment
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "What's the Purpose?"
Wikipedia: "
Politics
(Aristotle)"
Aristotle's Politics: Book One
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "The Good Citizen"
The Supreme Court of the United States:
PGA Tour, Inc. v. Casey Martin
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Freedom vs. Fit"
Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics
: Book II
Aristotle's Politics: Book Three
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "The Claims of Community"
Wikipedia: "Alasdair MacIntyre"
Wikipedia: "Virtue Ethics"
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Where Our Loyalty Lies"
OpenDemocracyUK: Gerry Hassan’s “The Problem of Patriotism and the Left”
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "Debating Same Sex Marriage"
The Supreme Court of the United States:
Lawrence v. Texas
The Business Ethics Workshop, v1.0:
"Chapter 4: Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism"
Yale University: Iván Szelényi's "Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge, and Morality"
Saint Anselm College: David Banach's "The Ethics of Absolute Freedom"
Harvard University: Michael Sandel's "The Good Life"
Unit 5 Discussion
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 1 Study Guide: Murder, Morality, and the Value of Human Life
Unit 2 Study Guide: Rights, the State, and the Free Market
Unit 3 Study Guide: Morality, Markets, and Immanuel Kant
Unit 4 Study Guide: John Rawls' Theory of Justice
Unit 5 Study Guide: Ethics and Politics of Virtue
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