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University of Houston Downtown Ethics The Essential Writings Discussion

Overview

Looking back over all of the thinkers we've read this semester, which one do you think has proven the most useful to you, both as a means to understanding moral philosophy as well as a tool for helping you to make ethical decisions in your own life? The link to the book is below.

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we have read about these people

Introduction, pp. ix-xiv Marino 

Chapter 1, pp. 6-23 Plato: Euthyphro

Chapters 1 & 12, pp. 38-42, 301-305 Plato: Republic, Book II & Kierkegaard: The Sickness Unto Death

Chapter 2, pp. 46-65 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 

Chapter 2, pp. 66-80 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book II

Chapters 4-5, pp. 110-118 & 122-133 Sts. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas

Chapter 18, pp. 358-377 King: Letter from a Birmingham Jail 

Chapter 7, pp. 152-162, 179-187 Hume: Enquiry 

Chapter 8, pp. 191-203 Kant: Fundamental Principles, 1st Sectio

Chapter 8, pp. 203-224 Kant: Fundamental Principles, 2nd Section

Chapter 9, pp. 228-255 Mill: Utilitarianism

Chapter 25, pp. 506-529 Singer: Rich and Poor 

Chapter 23, pp. 463-485 Wolf: Moral Saints 

book infomation

Required text Ethics: The Essential Writings, ed. Gordon Marino (New York: Modern Library, 2010). ISBN: 978- 0812977783. 

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