This course is a survey of philosophical theories about the nature of morality and moral judgment.

Texts and readings:

Selections from Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature

Selections from the writings of J.P. Sartre, A.J. Ayer, and R.M. Hare

Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals parts I and II

Rawls “Kantian Constructivism and Moral Theory”

Mill, Utilitarianism

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Books 1-3

And possibly: Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, essays 1 and 2

The Hume, Sartre, Ayer, Hare and Rawls readings will be supplied through electronic reserve. The rest of the readings are found in primary sources easily purchased, and any edition of these works (say of Kant or Aristotle) will be fine.