Ethics

Part 1 Ethical theory: ethics and ethical reasoning; relativism; egoism; leviathan, Thomas Hobbes; utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill; Kant's moral theory; fundamental principles of the metaphysics of morals, Immanuel Kant; virtue ethics and naturalism; Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle; second treatise of civil government, John Locke; feminist ethics; feminism and moral theory, Virginia Held; the need for more than justice, Annette Baier. Part 2 Ethical issues: euthanasia; the wrongfulness of euthanasia, J. Gay-Williams; active and passive euthanasia, James Rachels; President's Commission for the Study of Biomedical and Behavioral Research - "deciding to forego life-sustaining treatment"; abortion; a defence of abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson; abortion and the sexual agenda - a case for pro-life feminism, Sidney Callahan; US Supreme Court - "planned parenthood v Casey"; sexual morality and pornography; sexual desire, Roger Scruton; gay basics - some questions, facts and values, Richard D. Mohr; pornography, civil rights, and speech, Catherine MacKinnon; equality and discrimination; philosophy and the values of a multicultural community, Lawrence A. Blum; reverse discrimination as unjustified, Lisa Newton; affirmative action and fairness, Robert K. Fullinwider; economic justice; a theory of justice, John Rawls; gender and justice, Susan Okin; distributive justice, Robert Nozick; legal punishment and the death penalty; a world without punishment?, Hugo Adam Bedau; the ultimate punishment - a defence, Ernest Van Den Haag; this man has expired - witness to an execution, Robert Johnson; environmental ethics; humans valuing the natural environment, Holmes Rolston III; the power and promise of ecological feminism, Karen Warren; deep ecology, living as if nature mattered, Bill Devall and George Sessions; animal rights; animal liberation, Peter Singer; speciesism and the idea of equality, Bonnie Steinbock; ethical issues in scientific research and technology; the invasion of privacy, Tom Forester and Perry Morrison; genetic engineering - life as a plaything, Robert L. Sinsheimer; global issues; famine, affluence and morality, Peter Singer; Kantian approaches to some famine problems, Onora O'Neill; closing the gender gap in development, Jodi L. Jacobson; Bosnia and Somalia - strategic, legal and moral dimensions of humanitarian intervention, Barbara Harff.