ETHICAL THEORY (texts and outlines)

TOPIC	MAIN READINGS	MAIN OUTLINES	OTHER / REVIRWS
What is Morality	Required for W, June 01 Regan, Ethical Thinking and Theory Shaw, The Nature of Morality Suggested for W, June 01 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 Mral Judgment), Morality as a Normative System VARIOUS KINDS OF JUDGMENTS (summary and classification of various kinds of judgments as descriptions, norms, meta-judgments, etc.) Do Animals Have Compassion? (An experiment on animals)	Please check out Quiz #1, Quiz #2, and this for the scope of the quiz, typical questions, and so on. The questions will be based on Shaw, Regan, and my presentations. There will be no questions about ethical relativism.
Consequentialism Egoism Altruism Utilitarianism	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 (updated, Nov 08) Normative ethics (Moral "Puzzle" or how to apply moral principles).
Kantian Ethics	Kant: The Categorical Imperative	Deontology
Ethical (Cultural) Relativism	Rachels, "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism" (in Shaw) William Graham Sumner: Folkways (excerpt) William Shaw, "The Nature of Morality." (section on relativism) Regan, Ethical Thinking and Theory (section on the consistenct of priniciples)	ETHICAL RELATIVISM, UNIVERSALISM, AND ABSOLUTISM (updated, Sept 20, 2003)	Quiz #2 Cultural Relativism -- exercize
TEST ON ETHICAL THEORY			Review for the Test #1 Practice exercise Another Practice Exercise Practice exercise (just questions 1-21) More practice exercise (euthanasia)
Evaluating ethical judgments -- can we reason about morality?	Regan, Ethical Thinking and Theory	RATIONALITY OF MORALITY   (September 25, 2003)
Ethics and Religion (Divine Commands Theory)	Emil Brunner: The Divine Imperative, John Arthur, Morality Without God	Religion and Morality	Morality and Religion

APPLICATIONS

Is there a special brand of professional morality	Ellin, "Special Professional Morality and the Duty of Veracity" Sissela Bok , "Lying and Lies to the Sick and Dying"	ORDINARY vs. PROFESSIONAL MORALITY Ways in which normative systems may differ  Ellin on two approaches to professional morality (priority approach vs. parallel approach)  Paternalistic deception in medicine
Business Bluffing	Carr, "Is Business Bluffing Ethical?" Gillespie, "The Business of Ethics"	Is business bluffing ethical
Professional Client Relationship	Robert M. Veatch "Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age" Michael D. Bayles, "The Professional-Client Relationship"	PRINCIPLES AND MODELS FOR THE  PROFESSIONAL-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP Norms embedded in ordinary morality (according to Veatch) Main differences between Veatch, Bayles, and Ellin Bayles and Ellin on fiduciary models Two contrasting approaches to relations between the professionals and their clients (authoritarian approach vs. "respect for autonomy" approach
ANIMAL RIGHTS AND ERNVIRONMENTAL 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

ADDITIONAL LECTURE-OUTLINES 
Some of these may be updated once we come closer to discussing a given issue)

•  NORMATIVE ETHICS (II) -- B.Gert on Morality (Link to Gert's article) (October 2000) 
• PROFESSIONS AND PROFESSIONALIZATION
• DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS
• EXTRACTS FROM THE CODES OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
  • The Society of Professional Journalists, SJP Code of Ethics
• Ethics and War (Just War Theory)

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

EUTHANASIA, ASSISTED SUICIDE, EXTRAORDINARY MEANS OF TREATMENT

THE PROBLEM OF ABORTION  

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)

TEST REVIEWS

• Review for the Test #1 (Summer)
  • Practice exercise (just questions 1-21)
  • More practice exercise (euthanasia)
• Study guide for the final (updated, Wd 11p.m, check out questions and problems at the end of review)
• Review for the 1st Test (Fall)
• Review for the final  

EVEN "OLDER" (FALL 2000) HOMEWORK, QUIZZES, ETC. -- USE FOR REVIEWS IF THEY HELP

• Normative Ethics (gert, Intrinsic Value)
• answers and review (posted October 19)
• Review for Test #1 comments on the test #1: [a], [b]
• Review for Test #2 (posted December 04)
• Exercise in applying (Clark, Subbliminal messages)

   

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