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UC Davis Department of Philosophy

History of Ethics

Philosophy Department

1240 Social Sciences and Humanities
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

Phone: (530) 752-0607

Fax: (530) 752-8964

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  • The second paper is due May 30

This list shows which material has been covered in each class period.

Month Day Topic
April 2 Introductory Remarks
4 Euthyphro, part of Apology
6 More of Apology, Crito
9 Book I of the Republic
11 Books II-IV of the Republic
13 Book I of the Nichomachean Ethics through Chapter 5
16 Remainder of Book I of the Nichomachean Ethics
18 Book II of the Nichomachean Ethics, through Chapter 4
20 Remainder of Book II, Book III, and Book VII of the Nichomachean Ethics
23 Book X of the Nichomachean Ethics
25 Encheiridian, Principal Doctrines, Letter to Menoeceus
27 Skepticism materials
30 Augustine, City of God Book XIX, through Chapter 4, Aquinas On Kingship, Summa, Questions 90 and 91
May 2 Summa, Questions 94, Third Article, beginning of Book 3, Part 1, Section 1 of Hume’s Treatise
4 Book 3, Part 1, Section 1 of Hume’s Treatise, to paragraph 17
7 Remainder of Book 3, Part 1, Section 1 of Hume’s Treatise, Section 2 to paragraph 3
9 Remainder of Book 3, Part 1, Section 2 of Hume’s Treatise, beginning of Preface of Kant’s Grounding
11 Kant’s Grounding to First Section, marginal number 397
14 Kant’s Grounding to Second Section, marginal number 408
16 Kant’s Grounding to Second Section, marginal number 422
18 Kant’s Grounding to end of Second Section
21 Kant’s Grounding Third Section
23 Bentham’'s Principles, Chapter 1, Mill’s Utilitarianism, Chapter 1
25 Mill’s Utilitarianism, Chapter 2
28 NO CLASS
30 Mill’s Utilitarianism, Chapters 3 and 4
June 1 Nietzsche’s Genealogy, Preface, First Treatise
4 Nietzsche’s Genealogy, Second Treatise
6 Nietzsche’s Genealogy, Third Treatise