| WEEK 1 | ||
| T-1/17 | Introduction – Syllabus – Blackboard – House of Life | |
| http://getsyllab.us/ | ||
| Introducing the Case Method | ||
| Th-1/19 | WORKSHOP: What counts as an ethical problem? Please bring one page printed in MLA format, presenting a situation that you would find challenging as an ethical problem. | |
| WEEK 2 | ||
| T-1/24 | Books of Moses | |
| http://bible.cc/ | ||
| Rachel Adler / Engendering Judaism (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=7qsqz0oKZBAC | ||
| Th-1/26 | WORKSHOP: Testing Ethical Criteria. DUE two paragraphs in MLA format. In the first paragraph summarize a compelling ethical criterion that you find either in the classic text or the modern response, using at least one direct quotation with quote marks and parenthetical citation. In the second paragraph, show how use of that criterion would guide deliberation toward a choice of action in one of the ethical problems posed at last week’s forum. | |
| WEEK 3 | ||
| T-1/31 | Buddhism: VIMALAKIRTI NIRDESA SUTRA | |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimalakirti_Sutra | ||
| see “external links” to English translations | ||
| Rita M Gross / The Dharma of Gender (pdf) | ||
| www.wilfridlaurier.ca/documents/6479/The_dharma_of.pdf | ||
| Th-2/2 | WORKSHOP: Problematic Situation: Due printed in MLA format. Develop a case for ethical deliberation. If the case includes facts of a public nature such as statistics, then please be sure to provide parenthetical citations to sources; if the facts are not of a public nature, be sure to state the relevant factual outline of the case (10 pts). The case should be presented in such a way that a choice awaits deliberation (10 pts). There should be at least two preliminary options for the choice (10 pts). And the choice between preliminary options should appear to present some difficulty to ethical deliberation (20 pts). | |
| WEEK 4 | ||
| T-2/7 | Plato: Symposium | |
| http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html | ||
| Irigaray on Diotima in The Ethics of Sexual Difference (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=44ZLW3CoDYwC | ||
| Damien Casey: Luce Irigaray and the Advent of the Divine (Author’s Web Pages) | ||
| http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/staffhome/dacasey/articles.html | ||
| Th-2/9 | WORKSHOP: Testing Ethical Criteria: Due: Two Paragraphs in MLA format. In the first paragraph develop a compelling ethical criterion that you find either in the classic text or the modern response for recent readings, using at least one direct quotation with quote marks and parenthetical citation (25 pts). In the second paragraph, show how use of that criterion would guide deliberation toward a choice of action in one of the ethical problems posed at last week’s forum (25 pts). Due Friday. | |
| WEEK 5 | ||
| T-2/14 | Aristotle: Ethics, Bk VIII, Friendship | |
| http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.8.viii.html | ||
| Ruth Groenhout, “The Virtue of Care,” Ch. 7 in Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=_clplh2kAvkC | ||
| Th-2/16 | WORKSHOP: Problematic Situation: Due printed in MLA format. Develop a case for ethical deliberation. If the case includes facts of a public nature such as statistics, then please be sure to provide parenthetical citations to sources; if the facts are not of a public nature, be sure to state the relevant factual outline of the case (10 pts). The case should be presented in such a way that a choice awaits deliberation (10 pts). There should be at least two preliminary options for the choice (10 pts). And the choice between preliminary options should appear to present some difficulty to ethical deliberation (20 pts). | |
| WEEK 6 | ||
| T-2/21 | Aquinas: Virtues | |
| http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3.htm | ||
| Susanne Marie DeCrane, Aquinas, feminism, and the common good (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=Mh1BSl7YkDYC | ||
| Th-2/23 | WORKSHOP: Testing Ethical Criteria: Due: Two Paragraphs in MLA format. In the first paragraph develop a compelling ethical criterion that you find either in the classic text or the modern response for recent readings, using at least one direct quotation with quote marks and parenthetical citation (25 pts). In the second paragraph, show how use of that criterion would guide deliberation toward a choice of action in one of the ethical problems posed at last week’s forum (25 pts). Due Friday. | |
| WEEK 7 | ||
| T-2/28 | Hobbes: Leviathan (Ch. 13-18) | |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3207 | ||
| Jane Flax, “The Patriarchal Unconscious” in Harding & Hintikka, Discovering Reality (Google Book, p. 261) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=gpGu-Xqx7bgC | ||
| Above reference to Flax appears to have been blocked by Google Books. As an alternative please access your library electronic databases and search for: Green, Karen. “Christine De Pisan And Thomas Hobbes.” Philosophical Quarterly 44.177 (1994): 456-475. | ||
| Th-3/1 | WORKSHOP: Problematic Situation: Due printed in MLA format. Develop a case for ethical deliberation. If the case includes facts of a public nature such as statistics, then please be sure to provide parenthetical citations to sources; if the facts are not of a public nature, be sure to state the relevant factual outline of the case (10 pts). The case should be presented in such a way that a choice awaits deliberation (10 pts). There should be at least two preliminary options for the choice (10 pts). And the choice between preliminary options should appear to present some difficulty to ethical deliberation (20 pts). | |
| WEEK 8 | ||
| T-3/6 | Spinoza: Ethics (Part IV, keyword: joy) | |
| http://frank.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/Spinoza/ethica4.html | ||
| Rosi Braidotti, Transpositions: on nomadic ethics (Google Book, “Spinoza Revisited”) — also Google “philosophical nomadism” | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=iSmwVs99P3QC | ||
| Th-3/8 | WORKSHOP: Testing Ethical Criteria: Due: Two Paragraphs in MLA format. In the first paragraph develop a compelling ethical criterion that you find either in the classic text or the modern response for recent readings, using at least one direct quotation with quote marks and parenthetical citation (25 pts). In the second paragraph, show how use of that criterion would guide deliberation toward a choice of action in one of the ethical problems posed at last week’s forum (25 pts). Due Friday. | |
| SPRING | BREAK | |
| WEEK 9 | ||
| T-3/20 | Hume’s Utility (See Treatise, Bk III of Morals) | |
| http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4705 | ||
| Christine Swanton, “Compassion as a Virtue in Hume,” or Jacqueline Taylor “Hume and the Value of Reality” in Feminist Interpretations of David Hume (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=vwCX5kJ_CVkC | ||
| Th-3/22 | WORKSHOP: Problematic Situation: Due printed in MLA format. Develop a case for ethical deliberation. If the case includes facts of a public nature such as statistics, then please be sure to provide parenthetical citations to sources; if the facts are not of a public nature, be sure to state the relevant factual outline of the case (10 pts). The case should be presented in such a way that a choice awaits deliberation (10 pts). There should be at least two preliminary options for the choice (10 pts). And the choice between preliminary options should appear to present some difficulty to ethical deliberation (20 pts). | |
| WEEK 10 | ||
| T-3/27 | Kant: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | |
| http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/ | ||
| Herta Nagl-Docekal, “Feminist Ethics: How it Could Benefit from Kant’s Moral Philosophy” in Feminist Interpretations of Immanuel Kant (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=Ah2LMcR-LLQC | ||
| Th-3/29 | WORKSHOP: Testing Ethical Criteria: Due: Two Paragraphs in MLA format. In the first paragraph develop a compelling ethical criterion that you find either in the classic text or the modern response for recent readings, using at least one direct quotation with quote marks and parenthetical citation (25 pts). In the second paragraph, show how use of that criterion would guide deliberation toward a choice of action in one of the ethical problems posed at last week’s forum (25 pts). Due Friday. | |
| WEEK 11 | ||
| T-4/3 | Hegel: Self-consciousness and the Master-Slave dialectic | |
| http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phba.htm | ||
| Debbie Evans, “Sartre and Beauvoir on Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and the Question of the ‘Look’” in Beauvoir and Sartre: the riddle of influence (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=LUVIOSwVWhEC | ||
| Th-4/5 | WORKSHOP: Problematic Situation: Due printed in MLA format. Develop a case for ethical deliberation. If the case includes facts of a public nature such as statistics, then please be sure to provide parenthetical citations to sources; if the facts are not of a public nature, be sure to state the relevant factual outline of the case (10 pts). The case should be presented in such a way that a choice awaits deliberation (10 pts). There should be at least two preliminary options for the choice (10 pts). And the choice between preliminary options should appear to present some difficulty to ethical deliberation (20 pts). | |
| WEEK 12 | ||
| T-4/10 | Kierkegaard: To Will One Thing (Ch. 13) | |
| http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2523&C=2399 | ||
| Sylvia Walsh, “Living Christianly” (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=qJLy6EGv3NgC | ||
| Th-4/12 | WORKSHOP: Testing Ethical Criteria: Due: Two Paragraphs in MLA format. In the first paragraph develop a compelling ethical criterion that you find either in the classic text or the modern response for recent readings, using at least one direct quotation with quote marks and parenthetical citation (25 pts). In the second paragraph, show how use of that criterion would guide deliberation toward a choice of action in one of the ethical problems posed at last week’s forum (25 pts). Due Friday. | |
| WEEK 13 | ||
| T-4/17 | Marx: Theses on Feuerbach, German Ideology (1A) | |
| http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm | ||
| http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01.htm | ||
| Sabine Gurtler, “The Ethical Dimension of Work: A Feminist Perspective,” Hypatia: A Journal Of Feminist Philosophy 20.2 (2005): 119-134. | ||
| Access Library Database | ||
| Th-4/19 | WORKSHOP: Problematic Situation: Due printed in MLA format. Develop a case for ethical deliberation. If the case includes facts of a public nature such as statistics, then please be sure to provide parenthetical citations to sources; if the facts are not of a public nature, be sure to state the relevant factual outline of the case (10 pts). The case should be presented in such a way that a choice awaits deliberation (10 pts). There should be at least two preliminary options for the choice (10 pts). And the choice between preliminary options should appear to present some difficulty to ethical deliberation (20 pts). | |
| WEEK 14 | ||
| T-4/24 | Nietzsche: Zarathustra, Genealogy of Morals | |
| http://philosophy.eserver.org/nietzsche-zarathustra.txt | ||
| http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/nietzsche/genealogytofc.htm | ||
| Judith Butler, “Circuits of Bad Conscience,” in The Psychic Life of Power (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=XuJlkAMjQK4C | ||
| Rosalyn Diprose, “Nietzsche and the Pathos of Distance,” in Corporeal Generosity (Google Book) | ||
| http://books.google.com/books?id=qhtejVr_g7YC | ||
| Th-4/26 | WORKSHOP: Testing Ethical Criteria: Due: Two Paragraphs in MLA format. In the first paragraph develop a compelling ethical criterion that you find either in the classic text or the modern response for recent readings, using at least one direct quotation with quote marks and parenthetical citation (25 pts). In the second paragraph, show how use of that criterion would guide deliberation toward a choice of action in one of the ethical problems posed at last week’s forum (25 pts). Due Friday. | |
| WEEK 15 | ||
| T-5/1 | James: Will to Believe, Varieties of Religious Experience (Gutenberg) | |
| Th-5/3 | DRAFT WORKSHOP for FINAL | |
| WEEK 16 | ||
| T-5/8 | Final Workshop. DUE in Class: Four Paragraphs in MLA format. One paragraph situation (as practiced in examples above); one paragraph developing criteria from scholarly sources (as practiced above); one paragraph developing a criterion of your own; one paragraph of deliberation, considering the criteria developed (as practiced above). (50 points per paragraph) | |
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Th-5/10 |
Late Finals Accepted without penalty at Beginning of Class. No late finals afterward. | |
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