Ethical Theory

Home Page -- Fall 2008

Under Construction

This page was last updated August 27, 2008.

For the website as it existed in December 2007

Instructor: Dr. Jan Garrett

Contents
A. Basic Materials
B. Study Questions and Other Study Materials
C. Written Assignments
D. Test and Final Exam Guides
E. Ethical Theories
     Descriptive Ethical Theory
     Normative Ethical Theory
F. Dialogues, Pedagogical Forgeries, etc. (New Section)
G. Key Concepts
H. Special Articles and Texts
I. Key Documents from History of Ethics

A. Basic Materials

1. Syllabus (Enrolled students should get Fall 2008 syllabus as a handout.)

2. Attendance Policy and Attendence Threshold Sign-off Document

3. Critical Thinking Elements and Standards

4. Core for PHIL 350 (August 2007)

5. Dept of English Policy and FAQ's on Plagiarism (corrected Oct. 2, 2006)

C. Written Assignments

1. Short Paper Assignment (8-26-07)

D. Reviews for Examinations

(Check back later)

F. Key Concepts (Separate Index Page)

E. Ethical Theories (Separate Index Page)

F. Dialogues, Pedagogical Forgeries, etc.

1. Dialogue on Relativism, Objectivism, Divine Command Theory, etc.
2. Dialogue on Aristotle's Ethics
3. A Discussion of Ethics between an Aristotelian and a Stoic
4. Kant's Letter to Hume (fictional)
5. An Interview with Immanuel Kant
6. Meet the Kahn-Sequenzes (Dialogue) (restored 10-23)

7. Strange Angels (A Rawlsian Fable) (The Original Position Remythologized)
8. Libby and Randy Discuss John Rawls (restored 11-18)
9. Dialogue on Rawls and Affirmative Action (new here 11-15)
10. Dialogue on Kymlicka's "Gardener and Tennis Player" (new: 11-20-07)
11. Libby and Randy Discuss Libertarianism (3-5-07)
12. Carlos and Libby Discuss Communitarianism and Liberalism (new 11-27)

H. Special Articles and Texts

1. Plato, Crito

2. "Saint Thomas Aquinas," by Ralph McInerny (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
    Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (complete)
    Thomas Aquinas, The Natural Law (ST I-II, q. 94)

3. Rachel Cohon, Hume's Moral Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
    See also W. E. Morris, David Hume--Moral Philosophy (also in S.E.P.)
    James Fieser, David Hume--Moral Theory (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)