PHIL02: Reading and Study Questions

PHIL02: Reading and Study Questions

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As I will explain during our first meeting, the course reader won't be available at the De Anza bookstore until later in the week. In order to get started with our readings, then, I have located an online version of Plato's Apology, our first text. You can find this dialogue fully transcribed at this site.

• Questions for Plato, "Apology"

For those who have not yet acquired the course reader, an electronic copy of the Rachels reading can be found here.

• Questions for Rachels, "Cultural Relativism"

• Questions for Cahn/Murphy, "Happiness and Immorality"

• Questions for Nietzsche, "Master Morality and Slave Morality"

• Questions for Mill, "Utilitarianism"

• What is the price of happiness in the town of Omelas?

• Questions for Kant, "The Categorical Imperative"

• Film Journal, "Gone Baby Gone"

• Questions for Plato, "Crito"

• Questions for Rachels, "Psychological Egoism"

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• Questions for Wolff, pgs. 1-17

• Questions for Wolff, pgs. 17-23

• Questions for Wolff, pgs. 24-29

• Questions for Wolff, pgs. 29-33

• Film Journal, "V for Vendetta"

• Questions for Wolff, pgs. 46-55

• Questions for Wolff, pgs. 104-114

• Questions for Wolff, pgs. 114-125

• Questions for Wolff, pgs. 125-131

• Film Journal, "A Clockwork Orange"

• Questions for van den Haag and Bedau
  

STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM