MLS 603 Ethics, Theory, and Pract


Course Packet: This page shows the contents of the course packet available at Regis' Dayton Library. It does not contain all of the reading for the course. Check the assignments page for the complete list of required readings. 

Materials in the packet are taken from several sources.  You may find it more convenient to obtain the texts from which the packet materials are taken from the library or to buy them outright.

Packet content for Week:

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Orientation

 

 

1. Syllabus  
2. Student ID Sheet
3. Ethical self evaluation Assessment re-evaluation 
 
4. Comments on Hinman's Moral Checklist
5. Berlin: The Pursuit of the Ideal   in Berlin, Isaiah The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (1990) USA: Princeton Univ Press, 0–691–05838–5. Pages 1-19
6. Abby: Introduction to Charles Taylor in Ruth Abby Charles Taylor (2001) USA:  Princeton Univ Press 0691057141. Pages 1-8.
7. Roebuck: On the Ethics of Authenticity
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Wisdom

8. Schema of the Dialogues
9. Plato Alcibiades1 from Project Gutenberg
10. Apology from Project Gutenberg 
11. Crito from Project Gutenberg 
12. Optional Reading: Protagoras  from Project Gutenberg

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Virtue Ethics

13. Plato: The Republic: The Myth of the Cave    from Project Gutenberg 
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Natural Law & 

Divine Command

14. Aquinas: On Law  from The Internet Medieval Sourcebook in ORB, the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies. 
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Egoism

Utilitarianism

15. Plato Euthyphro  from Project Gutenberg 
16. Plato: The Republic: The Ring of Gyges  from Project Gutenberg 
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Deontology
Freedom
Will
Duty

17. Bowman: Kant and the Project of the Enlightenment
18. Berlin: Kant as an unfamiliar source of nationalism in Berlin, Isaiah The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History (1996) USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 0–374–52569–2
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Rights /Social
Contracts

&

Relativism, Pluralism Particularism

19. Berlin: The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will 
in Berlin, Isaiah The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (1990) USA: Princeton University Press, 0–691–05838–5. Pages 207-237. Pages 232-249
20. Hardy: Berlin's Big Idea
in Herny Hardy ‘Berlin’s Big Idea’, Philosophers’ Magazine 11 (Summer 2000), 15–16,

http://www.philosophers.co.uk/portal_article.php?id=85 September 2003

21. Berlin Equality
in Berlin, Isaiah Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (1978) USA: Penguin, 0–14–005805–2. Pages 81-103
22. Universal Declaration of Human Rights  United Nations http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html September 2003
23. Abby: Charles Taylor Chapter 1
in Ruth Abby Charles Taylor (2001) USA:  Princeton Univ Press 0691057141. Pages 9-53.
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Ethics of Care

&

Applied Ethics

24. Ethical self evaluation Assessment re-evaluation

25. Comments on Hinman's Moral Checklist
26. Course Evaluation Form

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