Roger Rigterink
Office: C-208 (Classroom building)
Home page: http://www.fdl.uwc.edu/faculty/rrigteri
e-mail: roger.rigterink@uwc.edu (office)
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Utilitarianism |
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Week #1 |
Into Thin Air |
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Jeremy Bentham - The Hedonistic Calculus |
pp. 147-53 |
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Week #2 |
Bentham (Primary source reading) |
pp. 170-71 |
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John Stuart Mill - Quality vs. Quantity Mill (Primary source reading) |
pp. 158-62: PP. 172-73 |
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Week #3 |
The Ones Who Walk Away (Narrative) |
PP. 179-80 |
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Criticisms of utilitarianism |
pp. 153-57 |
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Mill's Vision |
pp. 162-67 |
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Week #4 |
Act vs. Rule utilitarianism |
pp. 167-69 |
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TEST |
September 23 |
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Deontology |
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Immanuel Kant - The Good Will |
pp. 184-87 |
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Week #5 |
Kant - The Categorical Imperative |
pp. 188-92 |
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Kant - Persons |
pp. 196-204 |
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Abandon Ship! (Narrative) |
pp. 207-08 |
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Week #6 |
Kant's Kritics |
pp. 192-96 |
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Personhood |
pp. 215-22 |
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Rights |
pp. 222-27 |
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Week #7 |
Criminal Justice 235-40 |
pp. 235-40 |
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TEST |
October 14 |
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Virtue Theory |
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The classical approach to ethics |
pp. 253-56; 317-21 |
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Week #8 |
Aristotle - Excellence and Happiness |
pp. 295-98: 304-05 |
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The Experience Machine |
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Aristotle - The golden mean |
pp. 298-304 |
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Week #9 |
The Prince of Darkness |
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Modern virtue theory |
pp. 321-26 |
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Can Virtue Be Taught | |
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Week #10 |
Compassion |
pp. 441-49 |
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TEST |
November 4 |
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Relativism and Egoism |
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Ethical Relativism |
pp. 75-83 |
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Week #11 |
Ruth Benedict (Primary source reading) |
pp. 98-100 |
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Ethical universalism |
pp. 83-92 |
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Cultural diversity |
pp. 92-97 |
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Week #12 |
Multicultural education (Primary source reading) |
pp. 101-04 |
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Ethical egoism |
pp. 116; 126-28 |
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Ayn Rand (Primary source reading) |
pp. 135-38 |
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Week #13 |
Criticisms of egoism |
pp. 128-35 |
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TEST |
November 25 |
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Feminist Ethics |
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Week #14 |
Early feminism |
pp. 365-74 |
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Two versions of feminism |
374-87 |
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In a Different Voice (Primary source reading) |
pp. 388-90 |
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Final Narratives |
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Week #15 |
Stories as survival mechanisms |
pp. 489-96 |
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Star Trek: Voyager, "Prime Factor" (Narrative) |
pp. 496-99 |
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Narrative) |
pp. 499-501 |
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Week #16 |
Into Thin Air |
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