INSTRUCTOR : DAVID FOX
 

OFFICE: 221 Humanities
 

PHONE: 240-567-7733 email: david.fox@montgomerycollege.edu
 

TEXT: FAGOTHEY'S RIGHT AND REASON - ETHICS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE by Milton Gonsalves
 

OBJECTIVES:
 

1. To understand ethics as a part of the larger study of  philosophy.
 

2. To introduce the student to the structure and some of  the standard materials of ethical study.
 

3. To provide the student with some of the basic theories and applications of ethics.
 

4. To give some consideration to matters of moral value, responsibility, intrinsic value, and the good life.
Numerous magazine and newspaper articles dealing with contemporary ethical problems will be discussed
as a supplement to the text material. These articles will deal with such topics as governmental, business, and medical ethics.
 

FINAL GRADE:

Examinations 70 points

Class Participation 15 points

Articles Presented in Class 20 points
 

Grades will be awarded as follows:
 

90 - 105 points A

80 - 89 points B

70 - 79 points C

60 - 69 points D

0 - 59 points F
 

                                                                                                TENTATIVE TOPICS
 
 
 

INTRODUCTION

    -Definitions

    -Conduct and Character

    -The Origins of Ethics

    -Ethics as Art and Science

    -Metaethics

    -Psychological Theories
 

CONDUCT

    -Human Acts

    -The Nature of Choice

    -Voluntariness

    -Determinism
 

RESPONSIBILITY

    -Intention

    -Modifiers

    -The Indirect Voluntary Act

    -Responsibility for the Acts of Others
 

CONSCIENCE

    -Definitions

    -Emotion and Conscience
 

GOOD

    -Definitions

    -Teleology and Deontology

    -Value
 

PLEASURE

    -Hedonism

    -Epicureanism

    -Pleasure and the Good Life
 

CONVENTION

    -Extrinsic versus Intrinsic Morality

    -Social Contract Theories

    -Social Pressure Theories

    -Existentialism

    -Relativism
 

CONSEQUENCES

    -Definitions

    -Pragmatism
 

INTUITION

    -Definitions

    -Moral Sense Theory
 

REASON

    -Definitions

    -Right Reason
 

LAW

    -Meaning of Law

    -History of Natural Law
 

DUTY

    -Definitions