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"
- Rachels on Psychological Egoism
- Plato's "Euthyphro"
- Mill and Utilitarianism
- Pojman on Utilitarianism
- Kant and Deontology
- Susan Wolf, "Moral Saints"
- Rachels and Sullivan on Euthanasia
- Hazlett on Possible Evils