CH1

What Is the Socratic Method? by Christopher Phillips

• Text not available for free online but, here are some websites by or about Chris Phillips ideas about philosophy:
• http://www.philosopher.org/Socratic_Method.html
• http://christopherphillips.com/
• http://ijpr.org/post/questioning-socratic-method-christopher-phillips#stream/0

The Euthyphro by Plato

• http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html

CH2

Anthropology and the Abnormal by Ruth Benedict

• http://users.manchester.edu/Facstaff/SSNaragon/Online/texts/201/Benedict,%20Anthropology.pdf

Trying Out One’s New Sword by Mary Midgley

• http://www.ghandchi.com/IONA/newsword.pdf

 

CH3

None

 

CH4

None

 

CH5

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

• http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/mill1863.pdf

 

CH6

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

• http://www.justiceharvard.org/resources/immanuel-kant-groundwork-for-the-metaphysics-of-morals-1785/
• https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kant/immanuel/k16prm/

Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas

• http://dhspriory.org/thomas/summa/

 

CH7

Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

• http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html

The Need for More Than Justice by Annette C. Baier

• This is a chapter in the full text available in VC Library Online Databases:

Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics, Baier, Annette;1994

 

CH8

A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson

• http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm

On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion by Mary Anne Warren

• http://www.douglasficek.com/teaching/phil-2222/warren.pdf

Why Abortion Is Immoral by Don Marquis

• http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/45.marquis.pdf

Virtue Theory and Abortion by Rosalind Hursthouse

• Full text available in VC Library Online Databases:

Philosophy & Public Affairs, 1 July 1991, Vol.20(3), pp.223-246 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

 

CH9

Genetic Enhancement by Walter Glannon

• Text not available for free online
• Summary available here: http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3160/enhance.pdf
• Full books available with this essay as a chapter in VC Library:
  • Biomedicalethics, Glannon, Walter;2005
  • Contemporary readings inbiomedical ethics, Glannon, Walter;2001

Is Gene Therapy a Form of Eugenics? by John Harris

• Text not available for free online
• Pay to download: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8519.1993.tb00283.x/pdf

The Wisdom of Repugnance by Leon R. Kass

• https://web.stanford.edu/~mvr2j/sfsu09/extra/Kass2.pdf

Cloning Human Beings: An Assessment of the Ethical Issues Pro and Con by Dan W. Brock

• https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/nbac/pubs/cloning2/cc5.pdf

 

CH10

Active and Passive Euthanasia by James Rachels

• http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/pecorip/SCCCWEB/ETEXTS/DeathandDying_TEXT/Rachels_Active_Passive.htm
• https://sites.ualberta.ca/~bleier/Rachels_Euthanasia.pdf

The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia by J. Gay-Williams

• http://falcon.tamucc.edu/~philosophy/courses/03-spring/berkich/bioethics/readings/gay-williams-The_Wrongfulness_of_Euthanasia.html

Voluntary Active Euthanasia by Dan W. Brock

• http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/Courses/DanBrockVolactEuth.pdf

Euthanasia by Philippa Foot

• Full essay available in VC Library Online Database:Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter, 1977), pp. 85-112 [Journal]

Killing and Allowing to Die by Daniel Callahan

• Text not available for free online

 

CH11

The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense by Ernest van den Haag

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/angel/procon/haagarticle.html

Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty: Answering van den Haag by Jeffrey H.
Reiman

• Text not available for free online

Against the Death Penalty: The Minimal Invasion Argument by Hugo Adam Bedau

• Text not available for free online

In Defense of the Death Penalty by Louis P. Pojman

• http://www.douglasficek.com/teaching/phil-2222/pojman.pdf

 

CH12

The Ethics of Addiction by Thomas Szasz

• Text not available for free online
• Pay version here: http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.128.5.541?journalCode=ajp
• Free Excerpt:http://faculty.ycp.edu/~dweiss/phl222_critical_thinking/ethics%20of%20addiction.pdf

The Fallacy of the “Hijacked Brain” by Peg O’Connor

• http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/the-hijacked-brain/?_r=0

Against the Legalization of Drugs by James Q. Wilson

• http://www.caragillis.com/Pierce/Fall%202012/Phil%2020%20/Lecture%20Notes/wilson.pdf

 

CH13

Plain Sex by Alan H. Goldman

• http://blogs.helsinki.fi/seksuaalietiikka2011/files/2011/02/3-Plain-Sex.pdf

Sexual Morality by Roger Scruton

• Chapter 11 in : https://portalconservador.com/livros/Roger-Scruton-Sexual-Desire.pdf

Sexual Perversion by Thomas Nagel

• Full text available in VC Library Online Databases:
  • The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Jan. 16, 1969), pp. 5-17 [Journal]

Feminists against the First Amendment by Wendy Kaminer

• http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/feminists-against-the-first-amendment/305051/

“The Price We Pay”?: Pornography and Harm by Susan J. Brison

• http://sites.dartmouth.edu/brison/files/2014/09/B.5.-The-Price-We-Pay.pdf

 

CH14

On Gay Rights by Richard D. Mohr

• Text not available for free online
• Alternate Reading, The Case For Gay Marriage: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndjlepp/vol9/iss1/8/

What Marriage Is For: Children Need Mothers and Fathers by Maggie Gallagher

• http://www.weeklystandard.com/what-marriage-is-for/article/4187

Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage by Andrew Sullivan

• https://newrepublic.com/article/79054/here-comes-the-groom

 

CH15

People or Penguins by William F. Baxter

• http://n.ereserve.fiu.edu/010034125-1.pdf

The Ethics of Respect for Nature by Paul W. Taylor

• https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/97bd/6dee0cea03c2bdba21efa4176c316938892b.pdf

Are All Species Equal? by David Schmidtz

• http://akbar.marlboro.edu/~wedelglass/Edelglass,%20Osher.%2010.25.%20Reading%202.%20David%20Schmidtz,%20Are%20All%20Species%20Equal.pdf

The Land Ethic by Aldo Leopold

• http://www.waterculture.org/uploads/Leopold_TheLandEthic.pdf

 

CH16

All Animals Are Equal by Peter Singer

• http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/singer.pdf

The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan

• http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/regan03.htm

Difficulties with the Strong Rights Position by Mary Anne Warren

• http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3140/Warren.pdf

Speciesism and the Idea of Equality by Bonnie Steinbock

• http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/philosophy/animals/steinbock-text.html

 

CH17

Reconciling Pacifists and Just War Theorists by James P. Sterba

• Full text available in VC Library Online Databases:

Social Theory and Practice, Spring, 1992, Vol.18(1), p.21(18) [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Against “Realism” by Michael Walzer

• Text not available for free online
• Full text available in VC Library:

Just and unjust wars: a moral argument with historical illustrations Walzer, Michael;1977

• Here is a good lecture on it: http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/Courses/Lecture_WalzeragainstRealism.pdf

Can Terrorism Be Morally Justified? by Stephen Nathanson

• Text not available for free online but here is a pdf of his book:
• https://ssandhbooks2.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/terrorism-and-ethics-of-war.pdf

The Case for Torturing the Ticking Bomb Terrorist by Alan M. Dershowitz

• Text not available for free online
• Interview on CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/03/cnna.Dershowitz/

 

CH18

Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified by Lisa H. Newton

• http://www.kyoolee.net/Reverse_Discrimination_as_Unjustified_-_by_Lisa_Newton.pdf

The Case against Affirmative Action by Louis P. Pojman

• http://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/gaskilld/business_computer_ethics/the%20case%20against%20affirmative%20action.htm

Affirmative Action and Quotas by Richard A. Wasserstrom

• Text not available for free online
• Alternate reading: “A Defense of Programs of Preferential Treatment”/”Racism, Sexism, and Preferential Treatment” http://www.monge.net/phil7mm/coursedocs/Wasserstrom.htm

In Defense of Affirmative Action by Tom L. Beauchamp

• Full text available in VC Library Online Databases:

The Journal of Ethics, 1998, Vol.2(2), pp.143-158 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

 

CH19

On Justice by John Rawls

• Text not available for free online
• Summary here: http://people.wku.edu/jan.garrett/ethics/johnrawl.htm
• Full Text of A Theory of Justice here: http://www.univpgri-palembang.ac.id/perpus-fkip/Perpustakaan/American%20Phylosophy/John%20Rawls%20-%20A%20Theory%20of%20Justice~%20Revised%20Edition.pdf
• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/
• http://www.iep.utm.edu/rawls/

The Entitlement Theory of Justice by Robert Nozick

• This is one chapter of the full text available in VC Library Online Databases: Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Nozick,Robert;1974

Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer

• http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972—-.htm

Lifeboat Ethics by Garrett Hardin

• http://web.ntpu.edu.tw/~language/course/research/lifeboat.pdf