ETHICAL THEORY (texts and outlines)

TOPIC	MAIN READINGS	MAIN OUTLINES	OTHER / REVIEWS
What is Morality Evaluating ethical judgments -- can we reason about morality?	Required for W, June 01 Regan, Introduction (part I) Shaw, The Nature of Morality Suggested : Feldman, Morality and Ethics	METAETHICS  (Updated, September 2003) Ethics as a Part of Philosophy Parts and Structure of Ethical Inquiry The Concept of Morality (or What Counts as a Moral Judgment), Morality as a Normative System VARIOUS KINDS OF JUDGMENTS (summary and classification of various kinds of judgments as descriptions, norms, meta-judgments, etc.) RATIONALITY AND MORALITY Do Animals Have Compassion? (An experiment on animals)	Additional resources: Quiz #1 Another review quiz (answers at the bottom of the thread)
Ethical (Cultural) Relativism	William Graham Sumner: Folkways (excerpt) William Shaw, "The Nature of Morality." (section on relativism) Suggested: Regan, Ethical Thinking and Theory (section on the consistency of principles)	ETHICAL RELATIVISM, UNIVERSALISM, AND ABSOLUTISM	Quiz #2 Cultural Relativism -- exercise
Consequentialism Egoism Altruism Utilitarianism	Regan: Introduction (Normative Ethics) Plato, The Myth of Gyges Rand: The Virtue of Selfishness Mill, Utilitarianism	NORMATIVE ETHICS (I) The Structure of Ethical Theory, Consequentialism, Classical Utilitarianism	Intrinsic Value and the Isolation Test How to work with a matrix of utilities Practice quiz Normative ethics (Moral "Puzzle" or how to apply moral principles).
Kantian Ethics	Regan: Introduction (Normative Ethics) Kant: The Categorical Imperative	Deontology

APPLICATIONS

EUTHANASIA	James Rachels, Euthanasia	EUTHANASIA, ASSISTED SUICIDE, EXTRAORDINARY MEANS OF TREATMENT
ABORTION	Feinberg, Abortion	THE PROBLEM OF ABORTION
ANIMAL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS	Peter Singer, All Animals Are Equal Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights Additional suggested readings "An Animal's Place," By MICHAEL POLLAN - New York Times (a critical discussion of Singer 's position followed up with a more moderate solution to "animal liberation" issues) (another link) This Steer's Life, by Michael Pollan Power Steer, by M. Pollan (another link) (This article is from the New York Times Magazine March 31, 2002 Section 6 describes a highly unnatural journey from calf to steak.) Power Steer: Part 2  FACTS ABOUT ANIMAL FARMS Pork production , "Boss Hog: North Carolina Pork Revolution," (the Pulitzer Prize wining series of articles) by Pat Stith, Joby Warrick, and Melanie Sill and Laying Hens, Poultry Dairy Cows, Beef Worker Exploitation FACTORY FARMING PHOTOS Battery Chickens, Battery Egg Hens Pork Farming, Veal Farming Factory Cows/transportation	ANIMAL RIGHTS & ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (1) A short Guide to (2) Singer On Animal Liberation (3) The Moral Basis for Environmental Ethics
WAR AND JUSTICE	Narveson: Morality and Violence: War, Revolution, Terrorism	Ethics and War

ETHICS AND RELIGION (under construction)

• Does the Bible Really Condones the Slavery (by Louis W. Cable)
• House Candidate Uses the Bible to Defend Southern Slavery (by Philip Rawls -- Associated Press, May 5, 1996)
• No Rationalizing Slavery (by Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1996 )
• The Ten Commandments (A Different View by Louis W. Cable)
• The Ten Commandments: An Objective Assessment
• Two Sets of Ten Commandments (compared) http://home.inu.net/skeptic/tencom1.html
• More on two sets http://home.inu.net/skeptic/tencom2.html

The Economics of Capital Punishment by Phil Porter: The author argues that "Sentencing a prisoner to life in prison is a better allocation of resources than sentencing him to be executed".

EARLIER REVIEWS, EXERCISES ETC

CASE STUDIES:

• Cultural Relativism -- case study
• Divine Command Theory (Trokosi - part II)
• Normative ethics (Moral "Puzzle" or how to apply consequentialist moral principles)
• Normative ethics again (Applying utilitarian and deontological ethics to cases)
• Authoritarian vs, antiauthoritarian approaches to ethics (Case studies)
• Euthanasia essay-homework

QUIZES (QUIZ-REVIEWS)

• Review for Quiz #1
  • Practice exercise
  • Another Practice Exercise
• Metaethics (Quiz)
• Metaethics and Theoretical (Normative) Ethics (Quiz)-
• Normative ethics / Professionalization (Quiz) [Another version of the same quiz ]
• Environmental ethics/Animal Rights (homework, due Wd)
• Some questions about abortion that can be on the quiz
• Models for Profesional-Client Interactions (veracity)

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