with questions and feedback.
Section 1 Handout - Socrates' Defense of Morality in Plato's Gorgias
Section 2 Handout - Psychological Egoism
Section 3 Handout - What is The Best Life?
Section 4 Handout - Utilitarianism
Section 5 Handout - Contractualism and Utilitarianism
Section 6 Handout - The Prisoners' Dilemma
Section 7 Handout - Killing and Letting Die I: The Trolley Problem
Section 8 Handout - Killing and Letting Die II: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Section 9 Handout - Relativism I
Section 10 Handout - Relativism II
Section 11 Handout - Evolution and Morality
Section 12 Handout - Free Will and Moral Responsibility I
Section 13 Handout - Free Will and Moral Responsibility II
Also Here: some Links
To excellent introductory guides to reading and writing philosophy papers by Jim Pryor, a professor at Princeton.
To the useful ethics glossary at Ethics Updates.
Finally, you might be ready for some refreshment (or not!). A
philosophers' joke involving Thomson's trolley problems, complete with
an explanation for the bits you don't get, is to be found at: Can Bad Men
Make Good Brains do Bad Things?
Please feel free to
with questions and feedback.
Here's my homepage