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Ethics

Essay #1 - Your Ethical Parameters

Research Paper

I will assign readings in class, and they will be accessible below:

Nietzsche [students, please read the whole book but skip the first introduction (start with the prologue)]

Conscience

Aristotle (PLEASE READ BOOK I, CHAPTERS VIII, IX, X, AND XI)

Locke

Rousseau (students, please start reading at the words "the second part" and read from there until the following sentence: "It is no easy matter to reduce to obedience a man who has no ambition to command; nor would the most adroit politician find it possible to enslave a people whose only desire was to be independent."

Hegel (students, please read at least the author's preface, starting from page 10, and then examine the structure of the book)

Burke I

Burke II (familiarize yourself with the text but for the purpose of learning the general argument, as it is highly polemical)

Heath

Barber

the individual and the economy - Keynes

McDonald's I

McDonald's history

Enron I

Lay obituary

Pope

Chaos of love

Are women human?