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Week B: Logic:
Inductive and Deductive Arguments (Outline)
Week C: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book
I,
Book II,
Book
X (Eudemonia) (Outline)
Week C: Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics
Book VIII,
Book IX (Relationships)
Week C:
Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness, Ch. 2: Sources of Happiness
(Text)
Week C: Eric
Weiner, Geography of Happiness, Ch. 2 Switzerland (Text)
(Powerpoint)
Week D: Ethics:
Ethical Dilemma
Week D: Ethics:
Introduction to Ethical Theories (Outline)
Week D: Ethics:
Jeremy Bentham, On the Principle
of Utility (Text)
READ THIS FOR THE THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM
Week D: Ethics:
Immanuel Kant, The Categorical
Imperative (Text)
Week G: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 5: The Roots of Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week G: Religion: Dawkins, Ch. 8: What's Wrong with Religion, The God Delusion
(Text)
Week G: Religion: Steven Jay
Gould, "Non-overlapping Magisteria" (Text)
Week G: Religion: Dalai Lama,
"Buddhism, Christianity, and Prospects for World Religions"
(Text)
Week G: Religion:
Arguments for the Existence of God (Outline)
Week H: Religion:
The Problem of Evil (Outline)
Week I: Classical Political
Theory: Plato, Republic
(Outline)
Week I: Plato, Republic,
Book VII: Allegory of the Cave
Week J: Classical Political
Theory: Aristotle,
Politics,
Book IV: Constitutional Systems (Outline)
Week K: Modern Political Theory: Thomas Hobbes,
Leviathan,
Ch. 13, The Natural Condition
Ch. 14, Laws of Nature
Week K: Modern Political Theory: John Locke,
The Second Treatise on Government
Week L: American Political
Theory: John Adams, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority, and Richard
Henry Lee (Text)
Week L: American Political
Theory: James Madison,
"Federalist Paper No. 10"
Week N: Globalization and
Consumerism: Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, Ch. 1: A
Global Family Portrait (Text)
Week O: Globalization and
Consumerism: Benjamin Barber,
Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV:
Mc World's Noisy Soul" (Text)
Week O: Globalization and
Consumerism: Benjamin Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1 (Text),
Chapter 3 (Text),
Chapter 5 (Text)
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