Welcome to PHIL 161: 
Topics in the History of Ethics
Fall 2004; David O. Brink
Topic: Greek Ethics
 
 
 
 

Course Description

Syllabus

Bibliography

Writing Guidelines

Logic Handout
 

Handout #1: Background to Socrates

Handout #2: Piety in the Euthyphro

Handout #3: Courage in the Laches

Handout #4: Virtue and Happiness in the Socratic Dialogues

Handout #5: Disobedience and Democracy in the Crito [optional]

Handout #6: Hedonistic Answers to Socratic Questions in Plato's Protagoras

Handout #7: Justice and Dialectic in Plato's Gorgias

Handout #8: Justice and Politics in Plato's Republic

Handout #9: Pleasure and the Good in Plato's Philebus [optional]

Handout #10: Aristotle's Ethics: Happiness and Virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics

Handout #11: Aristotle's Politics and Democracy [optional]

Handout #12: Epicurean Ethics: Hedonism, Justice, and Fear of Death

Handout #13: Stoic Ethics: Nature, Happiness, and Virtue

Undergraduate Paper #1

Undergraduate Paper #2

Graduate Paper #1

Study Questions

Internet Links
 

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