<p>1. Thinking About Ethics. </p> <p> Ethics and Critical Thinking.</p> <p> Studying Ethics.</p> <p> God's Commandments and Ethics.</p> <p> Religion and Ethics.</p> <p> Reading: Plato, Euthyphro. </p> <p> Exercises<br><br>2. Ethics and Reason. </p> <p> Reasoning about Ethics.</p> <p> Elements of Kantian Ethics.</p> <p> Criticisms of Kantian Ethics.</p> <p> Conclusion.</p> <p> Reading: Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals. </p> <p> Exercises<br><br>3. Ethics and Emotions. </p> <p> Follow Your Reason or Follow Your Heart?</p> <p> Objective and Subjective Feelings.</p> <p> Intuitionism.</p> <p> Conclusion.</p> <p> Reading: Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature. </p> <p> Exercises<br><br>4. Utilitarian Ethics. </p> <p> Utilitarian Theory.</p> <p> Act- vs. Rule-Utilitarians.</p> <p> Utiliatarians and the Quality of Pleasures.</p> <p> Criticisms of Utilitarian Ethics.</p> <p> Nozick’s Challenge to Utilitarian Ethics</p> <p> The Uses of Utilitarian Ethics.</p> <p> Opposition to Utilitarianism.</p> <p> Reading: Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. </p> <p> Reading: Mill, What Utilitarianism Is.<br> Exercises</p> <p><br>5. Social Contract Ethics. </p> <p> Framing the Social Contract.</p> <p> Fairness and Social Contract Theory: John Rawls.</p> <p> Gauthier's Contractarian Ethics.</p> <p> The Social Contract Myth and its Underlying Assumptions.</p> <p> Conclusion.</p> <p> Reading: Hobbes, Leviathan. </p> <p> Exercises<br><br>6. Egoism, Relativism, and Pragmatism. </p> <p> Egoism.</p> <p> Relativism.</p> <p> Pragmatism.</p> <p> Readings: Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope. </p> <p> Exercises<br><br>7. Virtue Ethics. </p> <p> The Distinctive Focus of Virtue Ethics.</p> <p> The Strengths of Virtue Ethics.</p> <p> Criticisms of Virtue Theory.</p> <p> Virtue Theory and Medicine.</p> <p> Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. </p> <p> Exercises<br><br>8. Care Ethics. </p> <p> The Neglect of Women's Ethical Views.</p> <p> The Care Perspectives on Ethics.</p> <p> Women and Ethics.</p> <p> Reading: Baier, The Need for More than Justice. </p> <p> Exercises<br><br>9. The Scope of Morality. </p> <p> Who is Due Moral Consideration?</p> <p> Moral Agents.</p> <p> Darwin and the Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals.</p> <p> Reading: Darwin, The Descent of Man. </p> <p> Reading: Frans de Waal, Primates and Philosophers.</p> <p> Exercises</p> <p><br>10. Ethical NonObjectivism. </p> <p> The Nature of Ethical Nonobjectivism.</p> <p> Arguments for Ethical Nonobjectivism.</p> <p> The Continuing Struggle Between Objectivists and Nonobjectivists.</p> <p> Reading: Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic. </p> <p> Exercises<br><br>11. Moral Realism. </p> <p> Contemporary Moral Realism.</p> <p> Moral Realism and the Argument from Simplicity.</p> <p> Moral Facts and Scientific Revolutions.</p> <p> Two Ways that Moral Realism Might Fail.</p> <p> Reading: Smith, Realism. </p> <p> Exercises<br><br>12. How Hard is Ethics? </p> <p> The Demands of Ethical Living.</p> <p> Comparing</p>