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4AANA002 Ethics I | King's College London

4AANA002 Ethics I
(Year 2014/15)
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Week 1 Morality and How to Live (3 items)
Republic, Book II - Plato
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'Egoism and altruism' in Problems of the Self - Bernard Williams
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Chapter 1: 'Socrates' Question' - Bernard Williams
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Week 2 Happiness and the Good (2 items)
A Short History of Ethics: Chapter 7 'Aristotle's Ethics' - Alasdair MacIntyre
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Appendix I 'What makes someone's life go best?' in Reasons and Persons - Derek Parfit
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Week 3 Morality and God (2 items)
Euthyphro - Plato
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'Modern Moral Philosophy' in Roger Crisp and Michael Slote (eds) Virtue Ethics (Oxford
Readings in Philosophy) - Elizabeth Anscombe
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Week 4 Consequentialism (2 items)
Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
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Utilitarianism: For and Against - Bernard Williams and J.J.C. Smart
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Week 5 Kant (2 items)
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Chapter 4: 'Foundations: Practical Reason' - Bernard
Williams
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Week 6 Blame and Responsibility (2 items)
'Freedom and resentment', in Gary Watson (ed) Free Will (Oxford Readings in Philosophy,
2nd edition) - Peter Strawson
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'The impossibility of moral responsibility', in Gary Watson (ed) Free Will (Oxford Readings
in Philosophy, 2nd edition) - Galen Strawson
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Week 7 Virtue (2 items)
'Virtues and Vices'. In Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy - Philippa
Foot
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: Appendix IV, 'Of some verbal disputes' -
David Hume
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Week 8 Intention and Action (2 items)
'The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect'. In Virtues and Vices and Other
Essays in Moral Philosophy - Philippa Foot
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'Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: the Doctrine of Double Effect'. in Morality and
Action. - Warren Quinn
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Week 9 Scepticism about moral truth (2 items)
Language, Truth and Logic: Chapter 6 'Critique of Ethics and Theology' - A. J. Ayer
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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong: Chapter 1 'The Subjectivity of Value' - J. L. Mackie
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Week 10 Moral objectivity (3 items)
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'Values and Secondary Qualities', in Ted Honderich, ed., Morality and Objectivity - John
McDowell
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'Assertion' in Philosophical Review (1965), 74: 449465. - Peter Geach
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Moral Scepticism and Moral Knowledge - Renford Bambrough
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General Reading (3 items)
A Short History of Ethics - Alasdair MacIntyre
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Morality - Bernard Williams
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy - Bernard Williams
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Some Central Texts (8 items)
Republic - Plato
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Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
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Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
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A Treatise of Human Nature: book 2, part 3 'Of the will and direct passions' and book 3 'Of
morals' - David Hume
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals - David Hume
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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant
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Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
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Principia Ethica - G. E. Moore
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