Tag: Moral Philosophy

The second paper I wrote for moral phil. I don’t really think i have anything surprising or new in here, but hopefully, I did a decent job explaining the concepts I do put out there. Mill’s Objection to the Formula of Universal Law In the “Groundwork for the Metaphysics Morals,” Immanuel Kant proposes a method […]

So I did a very smart thing this quarter and did most of my reading responses early, before I got other bigger commitments. I finally got the motivation to write my last reading response last week, so here it is. Kant, Immanuel. “Groundwork for the Metaphysics Morals.” Cambridge University Press, 1998. 1-45 (As a preface, […]

Here’s the first complete Phil paper I’ve written for my Moral Philosophy class. I turned it in Wednesday, and was reasonably satisfied with it. Like most things I write, I wish I had had more time to edit it, but at least I got a rough draft reviewed by my TA before turning it in. […]

This is for tomorrow’s lecture. Sorry it tails off at the end, but I had to clip it to fit one page. Mill, John Stuart. “Utilitarianism.” Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, 5th ED. Wadsworth Publishing, 2007. While John Stuart Mill also proposes a type of utilitarianism, his theory differs from Bentham’s most notably in […]

The topic we’re currently on is utilitarianism, so here’s one that I wrote for yesterday’s reading. Nozick, Robert. “The Experience Machine.” Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books, 1974. 118-119. Parfit, Derek, “What makes Someone’s Life Go Best?” Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, 5th ED. Wadsworth Publishing, 2007. In his excerpt, Derek Parfit provides several […]

The reading for today in my moral philosophy class was again on Ethical Egoism, though from a different author. Specifically, Rachels, James, “Ch. 21: Ethical Egoism,” Ethical Theory: An Anthology, Russ Shafer-Landau ED., Blackwell Publishing, 2007. 213-220 Early in the excerpt, James Rachels makes the distinction between Psychological Egoism (which I will lazily abbreviate as […]

One of the classes I’m taking this quarter is Phil 20, intro to moral philosophy. Of which I know nothing. The class assignments are all writing (and I’ve never done phil writing before), including several response papers to our reading. They’re not supposed to be polished, and probably don’t even have to be right, but […]