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Course Offerings: Fall 2008

PHILOSOPHY 331: CLASSICAL ETHICAL THEORIES

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY
SECTION 1, 6:00 - 7:15 P.M.

PROFESSOR WILLIAM TOLHURST

REQUIRED TEXTS
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Penguin
Confucius, The Essential Analects, Hackett
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Everyman’s Library
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, Oxford
Plato, Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito, Oxford World’s Classics
Additional classic texts available online

COURSE CONTENT
The course will cover a number of classical texts in the history of ethical theory with particular emphasis on the views of Aristotle, Kant, Hume, and Mill.

COURSE FORMAT
Lecture-discussion. Reading responses. Several short papers, optional final exam.