Welcome to PHIL 202: 
Ethics Core Course
Winter 2004; David O. Brink
Topic: Practical Reason
 
 
Course Description

Syllabus

Bibliography

Links to Readings

Handout #1: Preliminaries

Handout #2: Hume, Instrumentalism, and Internal Reasons

Handout #3: Desiderative Conceptions of the Personal Good

Handout #4: The Authority of Desire and Normative Perfectionism

Handout #5: Temporal Neutrality and Asymmetrical Attitudes

Handout #6: The Authority of Morality I: Relativism, Minimalism, and Antirationalism

Handout #7: The Authority of Morality II: Nagel and the Justification of Altruism

Handout #8: The Authority of Morality III: Korsgaard and the Sources of Normativity

Paper Topics