Ethics Home Page

This page is being discontinued as of December 2007.

Each week I  post highlights of my class lecture notes on this page

Weeks 1 & 2

• Teleologist or   Deontologist self-inventory
• What is character -
• End of Chapter Reading:  Rings of Gyges
• End of Chapter Reading:  Euthyphro

Weeks 3  to 5

• Ethical Relativism" online survey    
• My   " Ethical Relativism"  survey
• Chinese Horse Story - an introduction to relativism
• M&M - Evaluative vs. Descriptive statements
•   Chapter 2  Ethical Relativism
• End of Chapter Reading: Trying out One's New Sword by Midgley
• Kenya - Dr. Wayne Silver

• Chapter 3 Egoism 
• Egoism self- inventory I created
• Hinman's online survey
• Chapter 3 Egoism 
•  Egoism, Critique of
• Chapter3 Readings (The_Virtue_of_Selfishness by_Rand & Self Love by  Hobbes)
• Utilitarian self-inventory
• Chapter 4 Utilitarianism
• Bentham, Jeremy (1748 - 1832)  &  Hedonic Calculator
• The Hedonic Calculus
• Mill, John Stuart   (1806-1873) 
• Hinman's online utilitarian survey
• Kant
• Self-Inventory
• Milgram  Learning Experiment
• Library literacy component: Mona Florea (under construction)

• Research Paper Guidelines
  Grading Rubric for research paper
• Service Learning Paper
• Grading Rubric for oral report

• Virtue Ethics  - The basics
•  Virtue Ethics - Do you buy it? Self-Inventory
• Quotations
  • happiness;  habits; character
• Virtue Ethics  Discussion Prompts
• Letter to Students
• Gilligan  Feminist Ethics
• Guest Jon Brammer, Writing Center

April  2007

• Study Guide Review
• Kenya - Dr. Wayne Silver

• Research Paper Guidelines
• Service Learning Paper
• Newspaper Ethics
• Bullying
• Lying
• Grading Rubric for oral report

March 7 to March 14

• Egoism self- inventory I created
• Hinman's online survey
•  Egoism, Critique of
• Utilitarian self-inventory
• Bentham, Jeremy (1748 - 1832)  &  Hedonic Calculator
• The Hedonic Calculus
• Mill, John Stuart   (1806-1873) 
• Hinman's online utilitarian survey
• Kant
• Self-Inventory
• Milgram  Learning Experiment
• Library literacy component: Mona Florea (under construction)

• FALL 2006

  Week 1

  • Introductory Activities   
  •  Ethics - Introduction
  •  The Emperor's Club
• Week 2
  • What is character - a continuation of the Emperor's Club discussion
  • Web Vista (for grades and email)
  • Rings of Gyges
  • Euthyphro
  • M&M - Evaluative vs. Descriptive statements
  • Polygamy
• Week 3 
  • Completing Chapter 1 Ethics Overview 
  • Chapter 2  Ethical Relativism
  •  Ethical Relativism" online survey    
  • My   " Ethical Relativism"  survey    
  • Trying out One's New Sword by Midgley
• Week 4   
  • Test
• Week 5
  • Chapter 3 Egoism 
  • Egoism self- inventory I created
  • Hinman's online survey
  • Library literacy component: Mona Florea
  •  Egoism, Critique of
• Week 6
  • Chapter3 Readings (The_Virtue_of_Selfishness by_Rand & Self Love by  Hobbes)
  • Chapter 4 Utilitarianism
  • Utilitarian self-inventory
  • Hinman's online utilitarian survey
• Week 7 Kantianism
  • Kant
  • Self-Inventory
  • Milgram  Learning Experiment
• Week 8
  • Study Guide was distributed
  • Daniel Axelrod spoke on journalism ethics
  • Watched & discussed Ayn Rand video
  • Jon Brammer introduced students to Writing Center services and provided tips on writing research papers
  • One of our students discussed an article on the FDA's considering approving cloned meats & milk for supermarket shelves http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=2580885
• Week 9
  • test
• Week 10
  • Virtue Ethics  - The basics
  •  Virtue Ethics - Do you buy it? Self-Inventory
  • Quotations
    • happiness;  habits; character
  • Virtue Ethics  Discussion Prompts
  • Letter to Students
  • Gilligan  Feminist Ethics
  • Guest Jon Brammer, Writing Center
• Chapter 8 Euthanasia     

• Virtue Ethics  - The basics
• Chapter 9 Abortion
• Chapter 10 Sexual Morality
• Chapter 11 Pornography
• Chapter 14 Legal Punishment

1. Duty-Defined nonconsequentialist  
   • Deontology Kant  (Categorical Imperative)
   • Divine Command
2. Consequentialist (Teleological) Theories of Morality
   • Proportionalism
   • Psychological Egoism & Ethical Egoism
   • Situation Ethics
   • Teleology lecture from 2001
     Utilitarianism (Bentham & John S. Mill)
3. Virtue Ethics (also called Character Ethics - Under construction
   • Aristotle Virtue Ethics 
   • Plato (428 - 328 B.C.) 
4. Feminist Ethics
   • Ethics of Care
5. Biomedical Ethics
   • Beauchamp and Childress: 4 Key Ethical Principles

Critique of Moral   Theories

Divine Command
Egoism
Intuitionism
Kantian Ethics
Relativism vs. Absolutism
Utilitarianism

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