Assignments and Exam Materials

Philosophy 130, Autumn 2000

Professor Hubin

Below you will find the reading assignments, paper assignments and examination materials. For lecture outlines, go to the Handouts page.

[Reading Assignments]
[Writing Assignments]
[Examination Materials]

Readings

    Religious Moralism

    "Morality, Religious and Conscious" in MMC pp. 77-84

    Moral Relativism

    "Trying Out One's New Sword" in MMC pp. 85-88
    "Ethics" in MMC pp. 89-91
    Recommended: "The Lantern Wars"

    Utilitarianism

    "Utilitarianism" in MMC pp. 34-41

    Kantianism

    "The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" in MMC pp. 24-33
    "Kant and Utilitarianism Contrasted" in MMC pp. 47-51

    Ethics and Nonhuman Animals

    "All Animals Are Equal" in MMC pp. 131-141
    "Speciesism and the Idea of Equality" in MMC pp. 141-147
    "People or Penguins" in MMC pp. 148-152

    The Ethics of Abortion

    "The Constitutional Right to Abortion" in MMC pp. 166-171
    "A Defense of Abortion" in MMC pp. 171-179
    "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" in MMC pp. 180-186
    "Fathers and Fetuses" in MMC pp. 203-210

    The Ethics of Euthanasia

    "Removing Life Support Systems" in MMC pp. 211-217
    "An Alternative to the Ethic of Euthanasia" in MMC pp. 219-223
    "Active and Passive Euthanasia" in MMC pp. 223-227

Writing Assignments

    First Short Paper (Due 10/19 in discussion section)


    Second Short Paper (Due 11/21 in discussion section)


Examination Materials

    Corrective Credit: This document contains the grading scale for the midterm and information on how to improve your grade retroactively by earning back as many as half the points you lost on the True/False and Multiple Choice portions of the test.



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