Topics

1.     Intro to Course

Kohlberg;  Dilemma

2.     Ethical Theory  KurtVonnegut

3.     Dailai Lhama, Ethics beyond Religion http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scienceonreligion/2012/09/dalai-lama-we-need-ethics-beyond-religion/

4.      

Pope Francis, Address to Diplomats

Mary Midgley: Trying Out One’s New Sword

http://nw18.american.edu/~dfagel/Class%20Readings/Midgley/OnesNewSword.pdf

5.     Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Natural Law.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/mar/05/thomas-aquinas-natural-law

http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1965&chapter=124064&layout=html&Itemid=27

US Declaration of Independence http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

6.     John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism.
 Chapter 2

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11224/pg11224.txt

7.     Immanuel Kan The Categorical Imperative.

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5682/pg5682.txt

8.     Exam #1

9.     The U.S. Supreme Court Gregg v. Georgia (1976).


http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=428&invol=153

Immanuel Kant The Retributive Theory of Punishment.

http://www.redwoods.edu/instruct/jjohnston/Philosophy10/CaseStudies/RetributiveTheoryofPunishment.pdf

10. Cameron Todd Willingham, video “Death by Fire”

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11. Jeffrey H. Reiman: The Folly of Capital Punishment.

faculty.msmary.edu/.../Reiman%20Folly%20of%20Cap%20Pun.pdf‎

IS THE DEATH PENALTY UNJUST?
 www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/angel/procon/deathissue.html‎

12. Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality. stevepetersen.net/personal/singer-famine.html‎

www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/...poor...rich/275725/‎

13. Midterm Break. No class.)

14. John Rawls: A Theory of Justice.

15. Robert Nozick, The Wilt Chamberlain Example

16. Exam #2

17. Kant Our Duties to Animals.
 http://drr.lib.athabascau.ca/files/phil/375/kant.pdf

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19.  Singer: All Animals Are Equal.  Kant, Immanuel. “Duties to Animals and Spirits.” Lectures on Ethics, trans. Louis Infield. New York, NY: Harper and Row. 1963: 239-241.

20.   Pope John Paul II, “Unspeakable Crime of Abortion” http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0141/__PQ.HTM

21. John T. Noonan, Jr.: An Almost Absolute Value in History.
Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion.

22. Mary Anne Warren: On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
                            Don Marquis: An Argument that Abortion is Wrong.

23. The U.S. Supreme Cour Roe v. Wade (1973). http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0410_0113_ZO.html

24. Marriage Equality:  US v. Windsor (2013)  http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_6j37.pdf

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25. Exam # 3

26. James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia.
      Bonnie Steinbock: The Intentional Termination of Life. http://personalpages.lvc.edu/vahanian/Steinbock.IntentionalTerminationofLife.pdf   

27.  Bonnie Steinbock, "The Intentional Termination of Life," Ethics in Science and Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1979), pp. 59-64.

27.  Joan Didion, The Case of Theresa Schiavo JUNE 9, 2005

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/jun/09/the-case-of-theresa-schiavo/?pagination=false

28.  Thanksgiving Day. No class.)

29  Robert H. Bork vs Barbara Dority, “Does the Threat of Terrorism Warrant Curtailment  of Civil Liberties?
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30.  Gitmo is Killing Me,  SAMIR NAJI al HASAN MOQBEL

www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/.../hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html

http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/43-samir-naji-al-hasan-moqbel

 ‘Jane Mayer, Zero Conscience in “Zero Dark Thirty”

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31. December 6  Exam #4/  

32. December xx  Final Paper due