Lecture Notes and Overheads

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The following links offer supplemental notes that I have written for readings covered in current and past versions of the course.

• Arguments, Validity, and Soundness
• Reductio Ad Absurdum Arguments
• Cultural Relativism
• Plato, "The Myth of Gyges"
• Nietzsche, "Master Morality and Slave Morality"
• Plato's "Euthyphro"
• Mill and Utilitarianism
• Kant and Deontology
• Wayne Yuen, "The Bloody Connection Between Vampires and Vegetarians"
• Julia Tanner, "Why I Won't Hurt Your Felines"
• Annette Baier, "What Women Want in a Moral Theory"
• Susan Wolf, "Moral Saints"
• Rachels and Sullivan on Euthanasia
• Hazlett on Possible Evils

EXAM STUDY GUIDES:

• Midterm exam
• Final exam