This course offers an historical and critical examination of influential ethical theories proposed by philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Nietzsche. The focus is on the philosophical justification for morality, and not on applied issues.
Aristotle, & Lesley Brown. (2009). The Nicomachean Ethics. OUP Oxford.
Held, V. (2006). Chapter 1: The ethics of care as moral theory. In The ethics of care : personal, political, and global. Oxford University Press.
Hobbes, T. (2009). Leviathan : The Matter, Forme & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill. The Floating Press.
Hume, D., & Rooks, M. C. (1995). The Complete Works and Correspondence of David Hume.
Kant, I., & Wood, A. W. (2018). Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals : With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes. Yale University Press.
Mill, J. S., & Ebooks Corporation. (2011). Utilitarianism. Andrews UK.
Moore, G. E. (N/A). Principia ethica. Gutenberg Press.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. (2017). The Essential Nietzsche : Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. Chartwell Books.
Plato, & Robin Waterfield. (1998). Republic. OUP Oxford.
Thomas, A. S. (1948). Summa theologica (1st complete American edition.). Benziger Bros. Questions 90-91; 93-95