Plan of Study
Workshops will be based on 3-paragraph exercises (about 2 pages) that:
(1) present a case where some ethical decision of contemporary relevance needs to be made going forward
(2) present a discussion of quotes and criteria (i.e. “love your neighbor as yourself”) from one of the sources presented during the previous class day using MLA style citations, and
(3) apply quotes and criteria to deliberation and choice of action going forward
Week One
7/5 – THU
Preview case (Blackboard)
Precepts of Ptah-hotep
–(fordham.edu)
–(Ancient Homework: Papyrus Prisse 186)
–(sofiatopia.org)
Amenemope (sophiatopia.org)
Maat (Wikipedia)
Proverbs (chabad.org)
Codes of Ur-Nammu (Wikipedia)
Hammurabi (Evansville.edu)
Review case (Blackboard)
Week Two
7/10 – TUE
Workshop #1 (workshops cover materials from previous lectures)
Hinduism (sacred-texts.com)
Gandhi (Gita: kirtimukha.com) / (Hind Swaraj: mkgandhi.org)
Buddhism (accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma)
Thich Nhat Hanh (plumvillage.org/mindfulness-trainings)
7/12 – THU
Workshop #2
Confucianism: 4 Books (infiniteloom.info)
Taoism: Lao Tzu “Dao De Jing” (yellowbridge.com)
Week Three
7/17 – TUE
Workshop #3
Popol Vuh
–(Chistensen: mesoweb.com)
–(Tedlock: google book)
–(Gerard: theosociety.org)
Dekanawidah
–(The Legend of Hiawatha and Dekanawidah)
–(Iroquois Constitution: indigenouspeople.net)
7/19 – THU
Workshop #4
Plato: (texts at Adelaide.edu)
Symposium
Alcibiades (beck.org)
Phaedrus
Week Four
7/24 – TUE
Workshop #5
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics Bk. I: classics.mit.edu /or/ ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
(Moss 2011, see especially p. 215): library databases
Averroes (muslimphilosophy.com)
Maimonides (Eight Chapters)
Aquinas (newadvent.org/summa)
7/26 – THU
Workshop #6
Democritus: wikipedia
Epicurus: epicurus.net
Suits, D. “Death And Other Nothings.” Phil. Forum 43.2 (2012): 215-230. Philosopher’s Index. Web. 26 July 2012. (Library databases)
Marx: marxists.org / On Feuerbach / German Ideology: First Premises
Sparling, R. “Theory And Praxis: Simone Weil And Marx On The Dignity Of Labor.” Rev. Of Politics 74.1 (2012): 87-107. Philosopher’s Index. Web. 26 July 2012. (Library databases)
Mill (utilitarianism.com) / (On Liberty)
Roberts, R. “Utilitarianism And The Morality Of Indefinite Detention.” Crim. Just. Eth. 30.1 (2011): 69-73. Philosopher’s Index. Web. 26 July 2012. (Library databases)
Week Five
7/31 – TUE
Workshop #7
Epictetus (Enchiridion): classics.mit.edu
Aurelius, Meditations (Book VI): classics.mit.edu
Kant: plato.stanford.edu
Rutherford, Donald. “Freedom As A Philosophical Ideal: Nietzsche And His Antecedents.” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Jour. Of Phil. 54.5 (2011): 512-540. Phil. Index. Web. 31 July 2012.Library Databases
8/2 – THU
Workshop #8
Hobbes, Leviathan (Ch. XIV): oregonstate.edu
Hegel, Lordship-Bondage: marxists.org
Rawls: iep.utm.edu
Melé, Domènec. “The Firm As A ‘Community Of Persons’: A Pillar Of Humanistic Business Ethos.” Journal Of Business Ethics 106.1 (2012): 89-101. Business Source Complete. Web. 2 Aug. 2012. (Library Databases)
Week Six
8/7 – TUE
Workshop #9
Addams: Democracy and Social Ethics (Intro & Ch 5)
Beauvoir: Second Sex, Ethics of Ambiguity (marxists.org)
Rand: Objectivist Ethics (ARI)
Anzaldua: Borderlands / La Frontera (scribd.com)
–keywords: Coatlicue, Nepantla, la Facultad, nahual, mestiza, mestizaje
Butler: Gender Trouble (google books)
Final Case (Blackboard)
8/9 – THU
Workshop #10
Peirce: cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/bycsp.htm
(What is a Sign, c1894)
(New List of Categories, 1867)
(Fixation of Belief, 1877)
(How to Make our Ideas Clear, 1878)
James: des.emory.edu/mfp/james.html
(Will to Believe)
(Varieties of Religious Experience)
Dewey: www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/dewey.html
(Democracy and Education, Ch. 7, keyword:”shared”)
Farmer: African American Registry / Forest Whitaker as / 1604
Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited: google books
King, Letter from Birmingham Jail: stanford.edu
Final Case (Blackboard)
Week Seven
8/14 – TUE
Final Workshop (four pages)
(1) Summarize Final Case (see Blackboard)
(2) Present One Eval from Course Materials using MLA style citations
(3) Present Second Eval from Course Materials using MLA style citations
(4) Set forth ethical criteria of your own
Attendance will cancel previous absence
8/15 – WED
Last chance for late work, accepted from 12:00 – 12:30 Instructor Office.
HAVE A NICE BREAK!
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