COURSE INFORMATION FOR PHL-1002
ETHICS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course examines moral principles and moral issues. The course focuses on the nature and ground of moral obligation. It introduces major ethical systems and tests those against selected contemporary moral problems.
3 credit hours
| Critical Reasoning Assignment | |
| Oppression Assignment | Privilege Assignment |
| Racial Oppression and Privilege Assignment | |
Guidelines for Applied Ethics Paper
Guidelines for the Capstone Project Grading Rubric for Capstone Project
Power Point on Reasoning Fallacies Power Point on Evaluating Statistical Data Power Point on Loaded Language
Recommended Reading: Ethical Reasoning
| Martha C. Nussbaum | Poetic Justice | 1995 |
| Marvin T. Brown | The Ethical Process | 1996, 2003 |
| Anthony Weston | A Practical Companion to Ethics | 1998, 2006 |
| Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl | The Ethics Toolkit | 2007 |
| Anthony Weston | Creative Problem-Solving in Ethics | 2007 |
| J. D. Trout | The Empathy Gap (re-titled Why Empathy Matters for paperback) | 2009 |
Recommended Reading: Textbooks on Ethical Theory
| Theodore C. Denise et al, editors | Great Traditions in Ethics | 1953, 2008 |
| James Rachels | The Elements of Moral Philosophy | 1986, 2010 |
| Louis P. Pojman, editor | Ethical Theory | 1989, 2002 |
| Louis P. Pojman | Ethics | 1990, 2007 |
| Louis P. Pojman, editor | Moral Philosophy | 1993, 2003 |
| David Ingram & Jennifer A. Parks | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Ethics | 2002 |
| Mark Timmons | Moral Theory | 2002 |
| Kelly James Clark & Anne Poortenga | The Story of Ethics | 2003 |
| Wanda Torres Gregory & Donna Giancola, editors | World Ethics | 2003 |
| Louis P. Pojman | How Should We Live? | 2005 |
Recommended Reading: Ethical Theory
| Aristotle | Nichomachean Ethics | c.300 BCE |
| Immanuel Kant | Lectures on Ethics | 1775-80 |
| Søren Kierkegaard | Fear and Trembling | 1843 |
| John Stuart Mill | Utilitarianism | 1861 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil | 1886 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | On the Genealogy of Morals | 1887 |
| G. E. Moore | Ethics | 1915 |
| W. D. Ross | The Right and the Good | 1930 |
| Bertrand Russell | The Conquest of Happiness | 1930 |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | An Interpretation of Christian Ethics | 1935 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Ethics of Ambiguity | 1948 |
| J. J. C. Smart & Bernard Williams | Utilitarianism: For and Against | 1973 |
| Peter Singer | Practical Ethics | 1979, 1993 |
| Richard Taylor | Ethics, Faith and Reason | 1985 |
| John Paul II | Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) | 1995 |
| Peter Singer | How Are We to Live? | 1995 |
| Judith Jarvis Thomson & Gilbert Harman | Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivism | 1996 |
| Thomas L. Carson & Paul K. Moser, editors | Morality and the Good Life | 1997 |
| Paul K. Moser & Thomas L. Carson, editors | Moral Relativism | 2001 |
Recommended Readings: Skepticism about Ethics
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Daybreak | 1881 |
| Bernard Williams | Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy | 1985 |
| John D. Caputo | Against Ethics | 1993 |
| James Morrow | The Philosopher's Apprentice | 2008 |
Recommended Readings: Social Justice--General Issues
| Stephen Jay Gould | The Mismeasure of Man | 1981, 1996 |
| Will Kymlicka | Multicultural Citizenship | 1995 |
| Louis P. Pojman & Robert Westmoreland, editors | Equality | 1997 |
| Iris Marion Young | Intersecting Voices | 1997 |
| Jonathan Glover | Humanity | 1999 |
| David Ingram | Group Rights | 2000 |
| Iris Marion Young | Inclusion and Democracy | 2000 |
| Linda Martin Alcoff & Edouardo Mendieta, editors | Identities | 2003 |
| David Ingram | Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics | 2004 |
| Cornel West | Democracy Matters | 2004 |
| Linda Martin Alcoff et al, editors | Identity Politics Reconsidered | 2006 |
Recommended Readings: Social Justice--Disability
| Claudia Card | The Unnatural Lottery | 1996 |
| Anita Silvers et al, editors | Disability, Difference, Discrimination | 1998 |
| Alastair MacIntyre | Dependent Rational Animals | 1999 |
| Leslie Pickering Francis & Anita Silvers, editors | Americans with Disabilities | 2000 |
| Stanley S. Herr et al, editors | The Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities | 2003 |
| Martha C. Nussbaum | Frontiers of Justice | 2006 |
| Kimberly Brownlee & Adam Cureton, editors | Disability and Disadvantage | 2009 |
Recommended Readings: Social Justice--Gender
| Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | 1792 |
| Harriet Taylor | The Enfranchisement of Women | 1851 |
| John Stuart Mill | The Subjection of Women | 1869 |
| Betty Friedan | The Feminine Mystique | 1963 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English | For Her Own Good | 1979 |
| Marilyn Frye | The Politics of Reality | 1983 |
| Susan Moller Okin | Justice, Gender, and the Family | 1989 |
| Sandra Lee Bartky | Femininity and Domination | 1990 |
| Susan Faludi | Backlash | 1991 |
| Marilyn French | The War Against Women | 1992 |
| Susan Moller Okin et al | Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? | 1999 |
| Sarah Song | Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism | 2007 |
| Jessica Valenti | The Purity Myth | 2009 |
Recommended Readings: Social Justice--Race
| Ruth Frankenberg | The Social Construction of Whiteness | 1993 |
| Cornel West | Race Matters | 1993 |
| Lewis R. Gordon | Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism | 1995 |
| bell hooks | Killing Rage | 1995 |
| Michael Eric Dyson | Race Rules | 1996 |
| Paul Kivel | Uprooting Racism | 1996, 2002 |
| Charles W. Mills | The Racial Contract | 1997 |
| Naomi Zack | Thinking about Race | 1998, 2006 |
| Lawrence Blum | "I'm Not a Racist, But..." | 2002 |
| Eduardo Bonilla-Silva | Racism without Racists | 2003, 2010 |
| Michael Eric Dyson | Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?) | 2005 |
| Michael Eric Dyson | Come Hell or High Water | 2006 |
| Barbara Trepagnier | Silent Racism | 2006 |
| Tommie Shelby | We Who Are Dark | 2007 |
| George Yancy | Black Bodies, White Gazes | 2008 |
Recommended Readings: Social Justice--Religion
| John Locke | A Letter Concerning Toleration | 1689 |
| Cornel West | Democracy Matters (Ch. 5) | 2004 |
| Gregory A. Boyd | The Myth of a Christian Nation | 2005 |
| Martha C. Nussbaum | Liberty of Conscience | 2008 |
Recommended Readings: Social Justice--Sexual Orientation and Sexual Identity
| Richard D. Mohr | Gays/Justice | 1988 |
| Suzanne Pharr | Homophobia | 1988 |
| Leslie Feinberg | Transgender Liberation | 1992 |
| Kate Bornstein | Gender Outlaw | 1994 |
| Daphne/Dylan Scholinski | The Last Time I Wore a Dress | 1997 |
| Michael Warner | The Trouble with Normal | 1999 |
| Cheshire Calhoun | Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet | 2000 |
| Nikki Sullivan | A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory | 2003 |
| Riki Wilchins | Queer Theory, Gender Theory | 2004 |
| Richard D. Mohr | The Long Arc of Justice | 2005 |
| Jonathan Rauch | Gay Marriage | 2005 |
| Martha C. Nussbaum | From Disgust to Humanity | 2010 |
Recommended Readings: Social Justice--Social Class
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Discourse on the Origin of Inequality | 1755 |
| Karl Marx | Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts | 1844 |
| Friedrich Engels | The Condition of the Working Class in England | 1845 |
| Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels | The Communist Manifesto | 1848 |
| Michael Harrington | The Other America | 1962 |
| Jeffrey H. Reiman | The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison | 1979, 2007 |
| G. A. Cohen | If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? | 2000 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed | 2001 |
| Kory Schaff, editor | Philosophy and the Problems of Work | 2001 |
| Paul Kivel | You Call This a Democracy? | 2004 |
| Bill Ong Hing | Deporting Our Souls | 2006 |
last updated 2/11/10