PHL 130 - Fall Syllabus



PHL 130: Introduction to EthicsInstructor: Daniel Imparato (daniel.imparato@csi.cuny.edu)Required Texts: SEE of Classes:Ancient/Medieval Ethics:Tuesday, 1/31 - Meeting #1: IntroductionThursday, 2/2 - Meeting #2: The Socratic Example: Examining Ideas CriticallyReadings: Plato: EuthyphroTuesday, 2/7 - Meeting #3: Plato’s Republic: What is Justice?Readings: Plato: Republic, Book IThursday, 2/9 - Meeting #4: Plato’s Republic, cont’d: Justice vs. InjusticeReadings: Plato: Republic, Book IITuesday, 2/14 - Meeting #5: Plato’s Republic, cont’d: Justice in the City & in the SoulReadings: Plato: Republic, Books III-IVThursday, 2/16 - Meeting #6: Plato’s Republic, cont’d: Goodness & KnowledgeReadings: Plato: Republic, Books V-VIITuesday, 2/21 - Meeting #7: Plato’s Republic, cont’d: Justice VindicatedReadings: Plato: Republic, Books VIII-XThursday, 2/23 - Meeting #8: Aristotle's Ethics: What is Happiness?Readings: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (Selections) (Part 1), Book ITuesday, 2/28 - Meeting #9: Aristotle's Ethics, cont’d: The Nature of Moral VirtueReadings: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (Selections) (Part 1), Books II-IIIThursday, 3/2 - Meeting #10: Aristotle's Ethics, cont’d: Justice ReduxReadings: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (Selections) (Part 2), Book VTuesday, 3/7 - Meeting #11: Aristotle's Ethics, cont’d: Contemplation vs. ActionReadings: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (Selections) (Part 2), Book XThursday, 3/9: CLASS CANCELLEDTuesday, 3/14: CLASS CANCELLEDThursday, 3/16 - Meeting #12: Other Ancient Views: StoicismReadings: Epictetus: EnchiridionTuesday, 3/21 - Meeting #13: Other Ancient Views cont’d: EpicureanismReadings: Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus & Leading DoctrinesThursday, 3/23 - Meeting #14: Religious Ethics: Natural Law & ReviewReadings: Thomas Aquinas: Treatise on Law (Selections)Tuesday, 3/28 - Meeting #15: Mid-Term ExamModern Ethics & Contemporary Issues:Thursday, 3/30 - Meeting #16: Hobbes: Justice without Morality?Readings: Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Part 1)Tuesday, 4/4 - Meeting #17: Hume: Morality without Reason?Readings: David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature (Book III, Part 1)Thursday, 4/6 - Meeting #18: Kantian Deontology: Morality without Happiness?Readings: Immanuel Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals, Chapter 1Tuesday, 4/11: SPRING BREAK – NO CLASSESThursday, 4/13: SPRING BREAK – NO CLASSESTuesday, 4/18: SPRING BREAK – NO CLASSESThursday, 4/20: Conversion Day: Monday ScheduleTuesday, 4/25 - Meeting #19: Kantian Deontology, cont’d: The Categorical ImperativeReadings: Immanuel Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals, Chapter 2Thursday, 4/27 - Meeting #20: Kantian Deontology, cont’d: The Primacy of AutonomyReadings: Immanuel Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals, Chapter 3Tuesday, 5/2 - Meeting #21: Utilitarianism: The Greatest Happiness for the Greatest NumberReadings: John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, Chapters 1-2Thursday, 5/4 - Meeting #22: Utilitarianism: Why Should I Care?Readings: John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, Chapters 3-5Tuesday, 5/9 - Meeting #23: Contemporary Issues: AbortionReadings: Mary Anne Warren: On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion; Peter Simpson: The Wrongs of AbortionThursday, 5/11 - Meeting #24: Contemporary Issues: Abortion, cont’dReadings: Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion; Francis J. Beckwith: Personal Bodily Rights, Abortion, and Unplugging the ViolinistTuesday, 5/16 - Meeting #25: Contemporary Issues: Same-Sex MarriageReadings: Sherif Girgis, Robert P. George, & Ryan T. Anderson: What is Marriage?; Matthew Clemente: Modern Marriage and Judgmental Liberalism; Elizabeth Brake: Minimal Marriage RevisitedThursday, 5/18 - Meeting #26: Contemporary Issues: Capitalism vs. Socialism & Final ReviewReadings: Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State & Utopia (Excerpt on Distributive Justice); G.A. Cohen: Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain: How Patterns Preserve LibertyThursday, 5/23 - Meeting #27: Final ExamGrading: A third of your grade will be based on the mid-term (short essays), a third on the final (non-cumulative; again short essays), and a third on one short writing assignment (3-6 pgs., drafts accepted for review). Note: While I will not be evaluating anything you write in terms of its grammar/spelling (this is not an English course), clarity in exposition is important; you must be able to express your ideas in a clear and coherent manner! Attendance, while not formally part of your grade, will be recorded for the college; if you fail to attend regularly you may find yourself dropped from the course. Moreover, regular attendance is essential for doing well in the course, as there will be information presented in the lectures that isn’t available in the text. Likewise, it is crucial that you keep up with the readings assigned for each week, so that you are able to follow along properly with the lecture material. Academic honesty: All work submitted in this course must be your own and produced exclusively for this course. The use of sources (ideas, quotations, paraphrases) must be properly acknowledged and documented. Violations will be taken seriously. Cheating of any kind will result in your?failing the course. ................
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