| Class | Topic | Reading |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Suikkanen, Jussi. 2014. “Pleasure.” Ch. 1 in This Is Ethics: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (Read pp. 3-20). | |
| 3 | Suikkanen, Jussi. 2014. “Happiness, Well-being, and the Meaning of Life.” Ch. 2 in This Is Ethics: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (Read pp. 25-44). | |
| 4 | Egoism | Suikkanen, Jussi. 2014. Ch. 3a in This Is Ethics: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (Read pp. 53-64). |
| 5 | Contractarianism | Hobbes, Thomas. 1651. Leviathan, in the version by Jonathan Bennett* presented at www.earlymoderntexts.com. (Read chapters 13, 14, and 15, pgs 56-74). |
| 6 | Suikkanen, Jussi. 2014. Ch. 3b in This Is Ethics: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (Read pp. 64-71). | |
| 7 | Hardin, Garrett. 1968. “The tragedy of the commons.” Science 162 (3859): 1243-1248. (Read the whole article). | |
| 8 | Consequentialist Ethics | Mill, John Stuart. 1865. “What Utilitarianism Is.” Ch. 2 in Utilitarianism, in the version by Jonathan Bennett* presented at www.earlymoderntexts.com. (Read pp. 4-17). |
| 9 | Suikkanen, Jussi. 2014. “Consequentialism” and “Mill’s Argument for Utilitarianism.” In This Is Ethics: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (Read pp. 80-90). | |
| 10 | Singer, Peter. 1974. “All animals are equal.” Philosophic Exchange 5 (1). (Read the whole article). | |
| 11 | Deontological Ethics | Kant, Immanuel. Selection from Chapter 2 of the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, in the version by Jonathan Bennett presented at www.earlymoderntexts.com. (Read from the first full paragraph on page 23 through page 30). |
| 12 | Bowie, Norman E. “Kantian Ethics.” Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, edited by Robert W. Kolb, vol. 3, SAGE Publications, 2008, pp. 1240-1244. (Read the whole article). | |
| 13 | Velleman, J David. 1999. “A Right of Self-Termination?” Ethics 109 (3): 606–28. (Read the whole article). | |
| 14 | Midterm Review | No reading |
| 15 | Midterm | No reading |
| 16 | Virtue Ethics | Aristotle. Nichomachean Ethics. Translated by W.D. Ross. Kitchener, ON: Batoche Books, 1999. Read Book I, Sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 7; Book X, Sections 1-2. |
| 17 | Suikkanen, Jussi. 2014. “Virtue Ethics,” In This Is Ethics: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (Read pp. 124-133). | |
| 18 | McDougall, Rosalind. “Parental Virtue: A New Way of Thinking About the Morality of Reproductive Actions.” Bioethics 21, no. 4 (2007-05): 181-90. (Read the whole article). | |
| 19 | Hursthouse, Rosalind. 1991. “Virtue Theory and Abortion.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 20 (3): 223-246. (Read the whole article). | |
| 20 | Feminist Ethics | Frye, Marilyn. 1983. “Oppression.” From The politics of reality: Essays in feminist theory. Berkeley: Crossing Press. (Read the whole article). |
| 21 | Miller, Sarah Clark. 2017. “Feminist Ethics.” In Philosophy: Feminism, edited by Carol Hay, 189-213. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA. (Read the whole article). | |
| 22 | Wendell, S. (1989). “Toward a feminist theory of disability.” Hypatia, 4(2), 104–124. (Read the whole article). | |
| 23 | Care Ethics | Noddings, Nel. 2013. “Why care about caring?” In Caring: A feminine approach to ethics & moral education, 7-27. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. (Read the whole article). |
| 24 | Religion and Ethics | Suikkanen, Jussi. 2014. “Divine Command Theory” and “The Euthyphro Dilemma.” In This Is Ethics: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (Read pp. 151-158). |
| 25 | Paul, Pope John. 1995. Encyclical letter Evangelium vitae. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. (Read sections 53-56, beginning on page 42). | |
| 26 | Metaethics | Suikkanen, Jussi. 2014. “Subjectivism” and “Relativism” In This Is Ethics: An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. (Read pp. 141-151). |
| 27 | LaFollette, Hugh. 1991. “The truth in ethical relativism.” Journal of Social Philosophy 22 (1): 146–154. | |
| 28 | Bishop, J. P. 2004. “Modern liberalism, female circumcision, and the rationality of traditions.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 29 (4): 473-97. | |
| 29 | Final Review | No reading |
| 30 | Final Exam | No reading |
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