Introduction to Applied Ethics I

In this course, we discuss what the morally right thing to do is with respect to a variety of moral issu

Please note: The purpose of this course is to assist students in developing a well-considered positions on the issues discussed. To this end, we read two different perspectives on each issue so that students are introduced to different points of view. 

Pre-requisite: Introduction to Moral Theory

Book

Rachels, James and Rachels, Stuart. The Right Thing to Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy, 7th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2015.

Week 1 Poverty

• Chapter 18 "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", Peter Singer

Week 2 Poverty

• Supplied Reading "Feeding the Hungry", Jan Narveson

Week 3 Abortion

• Chapter 13 "Why Abortion is Immoral", Don Marquis

Week 4 Abortion

• Chapter 14 "A Defense of Abortion", Judith Jarvis Thomson

Week 5 Animals

• Chapter 15 "All Animals are Equal", Peter Singer

Week 6 Animals

• Chapter 16 "Do Animals Have Rights?", Tibor Machan

Week 7 Euthanasia

• Chapter 37 "The Morality of Euthanasia", James Rachels

Week 8 Euthanasia

• Chapter 38 "The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia", J. Gay-Williams