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Part IB Ethics

Virtue Ethics

Week 2: Nichomachean Ethics

Aristotle, Ross, W. D., and Brown, L. (2009). Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford University Press. Books 2 (Chapters 1–7) and 6 (Chapters 9–11).

Early Modern Moral Philosophy

Week 3 & 4: Rationalism and Sentimentalism

Gill, Michael. (2007). Moral Rationalism vs. Moral Sentimentalism: Is Morality More Like Math or Beauty, Philosophy Compass, 2(1): 16-30

Week 3: Rationalism

Schneewind, J. B. (2003). Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, chap. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Cambridge University Press.

Week 4: Sentimentalism

Schneewind, J. B. (2003). Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, chap. David Hume. Cambridge University Press.

Normative Powers

Week 5: Consent

Korsgaard, C. M. (1986). Kant’s Formula of Humanity. Kant-Studien, 77(2), 183-202.

Moral Psychology

Week 6: Practical Reason

Korsgaard, C. M. (1986). Skepticism about Practical Reason. The Journal of Philosophy, 83(1), 5–25.

Week 7: Moral Motivation

Velleman, J. D. (1992). The Guise of The Good. Noûs, 26(1), 3–26.