Homework

Choose one of the readings from chapters 2-6 and summarize, explain, and evaluate the main points of the reading in a minimum of 3 paragraphs. Do not simply cut and paste from the reading, but summarize the main points in your own words. 

You may choose any one of the following readings to complete this assignment:

CHAPTER 2: Aristotle and the Question of Virtue: Why Bother Being Good?

The Virtues by Aristotle

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre

CHAPTER 3: Wrong Is Always Wrong: Kant’s Categorical Imperative

The Categorical Imperative and the Good Will from Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Concerning a Pretended Right to Lie from Motives of Humanity by Immanuel Kant

CHAPTER 4: Consequences Matter—Utilitarianism

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

CHAPTER 5: Continental Perspectives

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Introduction to an Ethics of Ambiguity

CHAPTER 6: Other Influential Moral Theories: Does Morality Depend on Culture, God, Nature, or Emotions?

Euthyphro by Plato

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals