Thursday 7/19

Virtue Ethics

Readings

Texts

• Aristotle, "The Nicomachean Ethics" (selections)

Notes

• The Aristotelian Virtues

Cases

• There will be Hell to pay . . .
• Anti-Vax Tax
• $15,000 Baby
• A Child's Right to Die

Synopsis

Due in part to the extra credit on Examination III, I chose to forgo lecture in favor of providing extra time to complete the exam. We will pick up with the above material next time after reviewing Social Contract Theory and discussing how it can be applied to specific moral cases.