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Lecture Summaries Fall 2007
 
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The most important human endeavor is striving for morality.  Albert Einstein

   
 

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

Weeks 3  to 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April  2007

 

 

 

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Alphabetical Links Moral Theories 
Abortion Lecture
Abortion - Post Abortion Trauma Syndrome
Allowing someone to die -     euthanasia
Bentham, Jeremy (1748 - 1832)  &  Hedonic Calculator
Case Studies for Discussion
    Case Study Ethical Reasoning Worksheet
     Discussion Questions
Character and Fate
Chinese Horse Story
Cloning
Critique of Moral   Theories
Determinism
Discussion Starters
     The Emperor's Club
Drugs
Ethics: What is it & can it be taught?
Ethics of Care (Gilligan)
Euthyphro
Fallacies
Fortune Cooking Reflection - In class activity
Frogs and Ethics
Golden Rule
Grade Inflation
Gyges Myth
Hedonic calculus
Kohlberg
Lying and Confucius
Lying & Cheating - lecture & statistics  - What is truth?
M&M - Evaluative vs. Descriptive statements
Milgram  Learning Experiment
 Mill, John Stuart   (1806-1873) Godfather of B. Russell
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Perception of Professions
Questionnaires
   * 10-question Ethical Inventory
    *Abortion Inventory - Where do your stand?  Results
   *Capital Punishment inventory- Where do you stand?
    *What type of decision maker are you  a Teleologist or
       Deontologist?

       Rand What do you think of her lifestyle?
Relativism
Relativism versus Absolutism
Ross and Capital Punishment
Student Questionnaire  (Name address, phone any ethical concerns - first night of class)
Taking of Human life - war, capital punishment
Ten Commandments
Terms to Know & Understand - Quick Reference Guide
Values
 
  1. Duty-Defined nonconsequentialist  
  2. Consequentialist (Teleological) Theories of Morality
  3. Virtue Ethics (also called Character Ethics - Under construction
  4. Feminist Ethics
  5. Biomedical Ethics

Critique of Moral   Theories

Divine Command
Egoism
Intuitionism
Kantian Ethics
Relativism vs. Absolutism
Utilitarianism

 

 

 

 

 

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    Lectures for 2005
Week # 1 1/26/05 What is ethics & morality?    Syllabus                                         ..
Week 2  2/2/05 Teleological Theories of Morality What's the right thing to do?
Week 3  2/9/05 Deontological Theories of Morality - What's right & what's wrong?
Week 4 2/16   Exam  What you should know
Week 5 2/23/05 Ethical Relativism .                    Determinism  (Library research)
Week 6 3/2/05  The taking of human  life      Allowing someone to die(Euthanasia)
Week 7 3/9/05 Abortion   Jon Brammer -Three Rivers Writing Lab
Week 8 3/16/05 Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, 
 Lying, Cheating, Breaking Promises
Week 9 Midterm  Time will be allotted for me to answer questions regarding your upcoming paper
Week 10 4/6/05 Morality, Marriage, Human Sexuality    Paper is due  Care
Week11 4/13 Oral Reports  (contents of oral reports will be included on the next exam)  (Revised - will be included on cumulative final)
Week 12  4/20/05  Bioethics
Week 13 4/27/05 Environmental Ethics
(Business  Ethics will not be covered)
Week 14 5/4   Exam # 3
Week 15  5/11 Cumulative Exam (may be substituted for another test grade)

Surveys, closing comments, makeups......    

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Links to be used during class discussions

 Under Construction
Philosophical Historical Perspective
Socrates (470-399)
Trivia -
Values
War

 

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