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Week
01 - 02: Logic:
Inductive and Deductive Arguments
(Outline)
Week 03
- 04: Is Happiness
Subject or Objective?
Week 03: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book
I,
Book II,
Book
X (Eudemonia) (Outline)
Week 03: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book VIII,
Book IX (Relationships)
Week 04:
Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness, Ch. 2: Sources of Happiness
(Text)
Week 04: Eric
Weiner, Geography of Happiness, Ch. 2 Switzerland (Text)
Week 06 07: Is
Morality Objective or Subjective?
Week 06: Ethics:
Introduction to Ethical Theories (Outline)
Week 07: Ethics:
Jeremy Bentham / John Stuart Mill on Utility (Text)
(Outline)
Week 07: Ethics:
Immanuel Kant on the Categorical Imperative (Text)
(Outline)
Week 08 -09: Is Religion Good or
Bad for Society and is there a Good Argument for God?
Week 08: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 5: The Roots of Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week 08: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 8: What's Wrong with Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week 08: Religion: Steven Jay
Gould, "Non-overlapping Magisteria" (Text)
Week 08: Religion: Dalai Lama,
"Buddhism, Christianity, and Prospects for World Religions"
(Text)
Week 08: Religion:
Ch.
6.1: Arguments for the Existence of God (Outline)
Week 08: Religion:
Ch. 6.2: The Problem of Evil (Outline)
Week 10: Exam
2
Week 11: Is
there a Human Nature?
Week 11: Plato, Republic
(Outline)
Week 11: Plato,
Republic,
Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
Week 12: Is Democracy the Ideal System? Is Strong
and Centralized Government Good or Bad?
Week 11: Aristotle,
Politics (Outline)
Week 11: Aristotle,
Politics,
Book IV: Constitutional Systems
Week 12: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 13, The Natural Condition
Week 12: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 14, Laws of Nature
Week 12: John Locke,
The Second Treatise on Government
Week 12: James Madison,
"Federalist Paper No. 10"
Week 12: American Political Thought:
John Adams, James Madison, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority,
Richard Henry Lee (Text)
Week 13
-14: Are Capitalism, Globalization,
and American Consumer Society
Beneficial or Detrimental?
Week 13: Globalization and
Consumerism: Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, Ch. 1: A
Global Family Portrait (Text)
Week 13: Benjamin Barber,
Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV:
Mc World's Noisy Soul" (Text)
(Outline)
Week 14: Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1 (Text),
Chapter 3 (Text),
Chapter 5 (Text)
Week 14: Review for Final Exam
Week 15: Final Exam
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