Prof. Mark Tunick tunick@fau.edu Prof. Daniel White dwhite@fau.edu

Readings: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2nd ed., Hackett), Cicero's On Duties (Cambridge UP) , Kant's Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (2nd ed., Hackett), Charles Dickens's Hard Times (Norton Critical Edition, 3rd), Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Penguin Classics) all are available for purchase at the bookstore. Other readings are available online. Some are files available at the MYFAU course site. In some cases to access online material if you are off-campus you need to create a proxy--your login is your 14-digit student ID, and the password is 'fau'. You are responsible for ALL assigned readings. Note that in some cases we might, with due notice, ask students to be accountable for some of the recommended reading, depending on how class discussions proceed.

Requirements: Grading will be based on three short papers of 4-5 pages each (20% each=60%),  a series of unannounced and/or announced in-class essays (20%), and a group research project/presentation (20%). Unexcused absences will result in a  grade reduction for the course; in class writings can't be made up without a valid excused absence. Be sure to bring to each class the reading for that day's class and take notes on the readings. Students agree to adhere to the honor code, the text of which is at http://www.fau.edu/divdept/honcol/academics_honor_code.htm. Class meets TR 4-5:20 pm in HC 114.

Contacting the Instructors:
Prof. Mark Tunick: phone: 799-8670; email: tunick@fau.edu; Prof. Dan White: phone: 799-8651; email: dwhite@fau.edu

8/22. Introduction.
    Reading: Bowen McCoy, Parable of the Sadhu, Harvard Business Review, May-June 1997, available online--go to Harvard Business Review; the article is available from multiple sources.
For those interested: Applied Ethics Resources on the web

8/24. Citizen Kane (Meet in AD 119--Auditorium, film begins promptly at 4pm)

8/29-8/31. Ethical frameworks I: Aristotle and the life worth living.
    Reading: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics: Book 1: chapters 1-5, 7-10; Book 2: 1-2, 4, 6, 9; Book 3: 1-2, 5, 10-11; Book 4: 8; Book 6: 3-8, 12-13; Book 8: 1-4, 8 (paragraph 3 only); Book 9: 5-6, 10-12; Book 10: 6-9

For those interested: Aristotle, Politics, Book 1: 1-9, 13; Book 2: 1-5, 7-8; Book 3: 1, 4-13, 18; Book 4: 1-2, 4, 11; Book 5: 1-4, 8-9, 11; Book 6: 2-4; Book 7: 1-4, 8-9, 13-14, 16--available via Perseus collection (as is a version of Aristotle's Ethics); Internet resources on Aristotle's Ethics.
Films on the life worth living: Kurosawa's Ikiru, Fellini's La Dolce Vita, La Strada; Capra's You Can't Take it With You; Lost in Translation; Woman in the Dunes.

9/5. Ethical frameworks II: Kant
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

9/7. Kant (continued)
Kant, 'On a supposed right to lie' (included in Grounding)
Paper one due.

9/12. Ethical frameworks III: Utilitarianism
Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: chapters 1-2, 4-5, 10 (Pars. 10-11, 16-22, 29, 33-35), 11 (myfau/files/Bentham folder).

Recommended: Bentham, Pannomial Fragments, chapter 4 (myfau/files/Bentham folder).
For those interested: The complete Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is available online.

9/14. Utilitarianism (continued)
John Harris, 'The Survival Lottery', Philosophy 50:81-7 (1975)(myfau/files)

9/19. Ethical frameworks IV: Contractarianism
John Rawls, Theory of Justice: pp. 3-7, 10-24, 52-55, 59-68, 103, 106-23, 285-90, 374-80, 386-91, 441-9 (myfau/files/Rawls folder). The book is also on reserve at the Library Circulation Desk.

For those interested: Wendy Kaminer, Review of Alan Wolfe's Moral  Freedom, New York Times book review, April 8, 2001; Terrance McConnell, 'Moral Blackmail', Ethics 91:544-67 (July 1981), available online at jstor; Kant, 'What is Enlightenment?' available online; Jonathan Haidt, "The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment," Psychological Review 108(4):814-834 (2001), available online.

II. Applications (1)

9/21, 26. Animal rights
Tom Regan, 'The Case for Animal Rights'; Carl Cohen, ‘The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research' (myfau/files:Regan_Cohen); Colin McGinn, 'Animal Rights'(myfau/files); Michael Pollan, "An Animal's Place," The New York Times Magazine, November 10, 2002, online.
Recommended: Martha Nussbaum, "Animal Rights: The Need for a Theoretical Basis" (book review), 114 Harvard Law Review 1506 (2001), online via EZproxy

9/28. The theory of capitalism
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, parts 1 and 2; "Estranged Labor" from Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts

10/3. Weber's theory of capitalism
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp. 1-36, 105-122
Recommended: Weber, "Churches and Sects in North America," pp. 203-220

10/5. Other views:
Andrew Carnegie, Wealth (1889), North American Review 391: 653-64 (June 1889), available online; also available from FAU library online; E. F. Schumacher, "Buddhist Economics" (online)
Paper 2 due.

Recommended: Paul Krugman, "For Richer," New York Times Magazine, Oct. 20, 2002: at lexis-nexis:search news/ general news; Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776), 1:1, 1:2, 4:2 (available online);"Putting Buddhism to Work" (available online);Spencer, "Man versus the State". 
For those interested: Adorno, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, available online; a contemporary perspective on Social Darwinism; Herbert Spencer, "Progress, its Law and Cause" (1857), available online

10/10. The capitalist and ethics
Mother Jones' story on the Ford Pinto case: "Pinto Madness," available online; Milton Friedman, "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits"(myfau/files)

10/12. Capitalism and the law
Pennsylvania Coal v. Sanderson; Truax v Corrigan (myfau/files)

10/17. Capitalist and ethics: Blackmail
Murphy, 'Blackmail: A Preliminary Inquiry', Monist 63:156-171 (1980)(myfau/files)

Recommended films: Bleakhouse (masterpiece theater), PN 1997.B643; Roger and Me; Recommended reading: Charles Dickens, Bleakhouse; James Lindgren, 'Unraveling the Paradox of Blackmail', 84 Columbia Law Review 670 (April 1984), available online at  Lexis-Nexis: search law reviews.
For those interested: Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co., 119 Cal. App. 3d 757(1981); Keith Bradsher, "S.U.V. Tire Defects Were Known in '96 but Not Reported," New York Times, June 24, 2001; Saul Hansell, "Clicks for Sale: Paid Placement is Catching on in web searches," New York Times, June 4, 2001

10/19, 24. Capitalism and the moral life
Rdg: Charles Dickens, Hard Times
Recommended Film: Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941), dvd on reserve in the library

Recommended reading: The following essays in the Norton Critical Edition of Hard Times: Essays on Industrialism, pp. 291-312; Essays on Education, pp. 331-36; Essays on Utilitarianism and the Science of Political Economy, pp. 337-51; and Nussbaum, "Literary Imagination in Public Life," pp. 429-39.
For those interested: Melville, Bartleby; Films:  American Madness (1932), Hud (1963), Grand Hotel (1932), The Last Laugh (1922), Lost Horizon (1937), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), Meet John Doe (1941), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), On the Waterfront (1954), Matewan (1987).

IV. Applications (2)

10/26.  The obligation to tell the truth
Plaintiff's brief, footnote 3, from Laidlaw v. Organ, 2 Wheat (15 U.S.) 178 (1817)(myfau/files); Albert Carr, Is Business Bluffing Ethical? (myfau/files); Thomas Carson, "Second Thoughts about Bluffing" (myfau/files)
Recommended: Kant, "On the Old Saw: That May be Right in Theory But it Won't Work in Practice" (myfau/files/Kant_Theory&Practice): see especially Part 1: pp. 41-43, 51 ("Now I come to...)-56; Part 2; and Part 3.

Recommended: "Times Reporter who resigned leaves long trail of deception," May 11, 2003, online or at Lexis-Nexis; Jodi Wilgoren, "School Cheating Scandal Tests a Town's Values," New York Times, Feb. 14, 2002--available online: search general news at Lexis-Nexis
For those interested: Ex-Senator Kerrey Says Raid He Led in '69 Killed Civilians, by Amy Waldman, New York Times, April 26, 2001;  "Poet Laureate Quits After a Résumé Lie," New York Times (AP),  October 20, 2002--search general news at Lexis-Nexis; Films: Wet Asphalt, A Man for All Seasons, The Insider, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Il Bidone, The Informer, On the Waterfront, A Simple Plan, The Maltese Falcon

11/2. Ethics and international affairs: frameworks
Cicero, On duties: Book I: 1-60, 98-106, 152-61; Book II: 4-8, 72-85; Book III: 7-121

11/7. The ethics of intervention
Walzer, "Humanitarian Intervention" (myfau/files); Kenneth Roth, "The War in Iraq: Justified as Humanitarian Intervention?", online; Nussbaum, "Duties of Justice, Duties of Material Aid: Cicero's Problematic Legacy," Journal of Political Philosophy 8(2):176-206 (2000) (myfau/files)

11/9. The ethics of imperialism
Tunick, "Tolerant Imperialism: J.S. Mill's Defense of British Rule in India," Review of Politics 68(4):586-611(Fall 2006)(online, or at myfau/files)

11/14. Kant's Perpetual Peace
Rdg: Kant's Perpetual Peace (myfau/files/Kant's Perpetual Peace)

11/16. Film: Renoir's Grand Illusion (111 minutes)

11/21, 11/28. Group presentations
Paper 3 due 11/28.