Syllabus: contact info, texts, requirements, calendar
 
 

Texts in the bookstore:

Plato, Protagoras (Lombardo and Bell, tr.), Hackett Publishing Co., 1992.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Irwin, tr.), Hackett Publishing Co., 2000.

Mengzi (Mencius), The Essential Mengzi: Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary (Van Norden, tr.), Hackett Publishing Co., 2009.

Immanuel Kant, Ethical Philosophy (Ellington, tr.), Hackett Publishing Co., 1995.

John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, Hackett Publishing Co., 2002.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (Macomber, tr.), Yale Univ. Press, 2007.

Readings on line:

Thomas Nagel, “Ethics,” lecture III of “The Limits of Objectivity,” in Sterling M. McMurrin (ed.), The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, vol. 1 (University of Utah Press and Cambridge University Press, 1980), pp. 119-39. Available on line at the Tanner lectures site:

http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/atoz.html

Annette Baier, “Trust and Antitrust,” Ethics, vol. 96 (1986), pp. 231-260 (on JSTOR at 2381376).

Handout:

Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysical Principles of Right, introduction, §§A-E (on a handout).