Cal State Long Beach

SPRING 2008

Meetings:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, LA2 200, 12:30pm - 1:45 pm

Texts:
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. W. D. Ross (revised Ackrill and Urmson). Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 1980.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. Ed. A. P. Martinich. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2005.
Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism and Other Essays. Ed. Alan Ryan. New York: Penguin Classics, 1987.
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Trans. Mary Gregor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Friedrich Nietzsche. The Genealogy of Morality. Trans. Clark and Swenson. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998.

Online versions:
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. <http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html>
Hobbes. Leviathan. <www.earlymoderntexts.com/f_hobbes.html>
J. S. Mill. Utilitarianism. <www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdf/millutil.pdf>
Kant. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. <www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdf/kantgw.pdf>
Nietzsche. Genealogy of Morals. trans. Ian Johnston. <www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/genealogytofc.htm>

Rodin's Thinker

 

Reading Schedule:
This schedule is subject to revision;
please continue to check this website for updates.
Exam due-dates are in boldface.

Jan 29 31 Syllabus distributed
Introductory comments about philosophy and ethics
Feb 5 7 Introduction to Logic and Argumentation
Rachels: "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism"
Feb 12 14 Rachels: "Subjectivism in Ethics"
Feb 19 21

Wielenberg: "God and Morality"

Feb 26 28 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1
Mar 4 6 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2
Mar 11 13

Hobbes: Leviathan, Chapters 13, 14, and 15
Mar 18 X Continued Discussion of Hobbes
Mar 25 27

Bentham: selections from Principles of Morals and Legislation
Mar X X Spring Break
Apr 8 10 Mill: Utilitarianism, Chapters 1 & 2
Apr 15 17 Continued Discussion of Mill
Apr 22 24 Kant: Groundwork, Preface, Section 1
Apr/May 29 1 Kant: Groundwork, Section 2
May 6 8 Nietzsche: Genealogy, Part 1
May 13 15 Nietzsche: Genealogy, Part 2
 

 

Reading and Writing