| Week |
Date |
Summary |
Detail |
Points |
| Week 1 |
1/18 – 1/21 |
Introduction to the Course |
Welcome to the House of Life |
0 |
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Meet Plato |
Alcibiades |
0 |
| Week 2 |
1/24-1/28 |
Plato on Love |
Phaedrus, Symposium (for weeks when 5 point exercises are noted, participation in Blackboard forum is required.) |
5 |
|
|
Plato on Knowledge |
Euthyphro, Phaedo |
0 |
| Week 3 |
1/31-1/4 |
Plato on Justice |
The Republic |
5 |
|
|
Plato Considered |
The Republic |
0 |
| Week 4 |
2/7 – 2/11 |
Presenting Plato |
In two pages, present Plato’s approach to the ethical life with “direct quotes” (and citations). Also, present a one-page case where some contemporary ethical choice requires deliberation. |
10 |
|
|
Responding to Plato |
In two pages discuss how Plato’s approach to the ethical life would guide ethical deliberation for the case presented. And discuss your evaluation of Plato’s approach. |
10 |
| Week 5 |
2/14 – 2/18 |
Meet John Stuart Mill |
Utilitarianism |
0 |
|
|
Mill on Liberty |
On Liberty |
0 |
| Week 6 |
2/21 – 2/25 |
Meet the Epicureans |
Democritus, Epicurus, Marx |
5 |
|
|
Meet Aristotle |
Nicomachean Ethics |
0 |
| Week 7 |
2/28 – 3/4 |
Meet the Aristotelians |
Ali, Maimonides, Aquinas |
5 |
|
|
Nietzsche‘s Naturalism |
Birth of Tragedy, Twilight of the Idols |
0 |
| Week 8 |
3/7 – 3/11 |
Presenting to Mill, etc. |
In two pages, present one recently-studied approach to the ethical life with “direct quotes” (and citations). Also, present a one-page case where some contemporary ethical choice requires deliberation. |
20 |
|
|
Responding to Mill, etc. |
In two pages discuss how the presented approach to the ethical life would guide ethical deliberation. And discuss your evaluation of that approach. |
20 |
| Week 9 |
3/21 – 3/25 |
Introducing Global Ethics |
Egypt, Proverbs, Hamurabi |
0 |
|
|
Global India |
Hinduism, Buddhism |
0 |
| Week 10 |
3/28 – 4/1 |
Global China |
Confucianism, Taoism |
5 |
|
|
Global America |
Popol Vuh, Black Elk |
0 |
| Week 11 |
4/4 – 4/8 |
Global Struggle |
Douglass, Addams |
5 |
|
|
Global Nonviolence |
Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, King |
0 |
| Week 12 |
4/11 – 4/15 |
Global Feminism |
DeBeauvoir, Davis |
5 |
|
|
Global Sexuality |
Foucault, Butler |
0 |
| Week 13 |
4/18 – 4/22 |
Presenting Global Topics |
In two pages, present one recently-studied approach to the ethical life with “direct quotes” (and citations). Also, present a one-page case where some contemporary ethical choice requires deliberation. |
30 |
|
|
Responding to Global Topics |
In two pages discuss how the presented approach to the ethical life would guide ethical deliberation. And discuss your evaluation of that approach. |
30 |
| Week 14 |
4/25 – 4/29 |
Pivotal Topics |
Hume |
0 |
|
|
Pivotal Topics |
Kant |
0 |
| Week 15 |
5/2 – 5/6 |
Pivotal Topics |
Zizek |
5 |
|
|
Pivotal Topics |
Farmer, Thurman |
0 |
| Week 16 |
5/9 – 5/12 |
Presenting Pivotal Topics |
In two pages, present one recently-studied approach to the ethical life with “direct quotes” (and citations). Also, present a one-page case where some contemporary ethical choice requires deliberation. |
20 |
|
FINAL |
Responding to Pivotal Topics |
In two pages discuss how the presented approach to the ethical life would guide ethical deliberation. And discuss your evaluation of that approach. |
20 |
|
|
|
Total |
200 |
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