Teaching ethics with three philosophical novels / Michael Boylan.

Intro; Introduction: Using Fiction to Teach Philosophical Ethics; The Three Novels; Contents; A Very Short Textbook on Ethics with Primary Readings; 1 First Order Metaethical Principles: Boylan's Philosophical Work on Ethics and Personhood Theory; Introduction; Boylan's First-Order Metaethical Principles; The Personal Worldview Imperative; The Shared Community Worldview Imperatives; Extended Community Worldview Imperative; Eco Community Worldview Imperative; Extended Eco Community Worldview Imperative; The Argument for the Moral Status of Basic Goods; The Table of Embeddedness

Conclusion of the First-Order Metaethical Principles2 Virtue Ethics with Selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics; 3 Utilitarianism; "What Utilitarianism Is"; 4 Deontology with Selections from Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals; Part One: A Discussion of the Nature and Types of Imperatives; Part Two: The Nature of the Categorical Imperative; Part Three: The Human Person as an End-in-Herself; Part Four: Humanity and Autonomy; The Novels; 5 Rainbow Curve; 6 To the Promised Land; 7 Naked Reverse; Outline placeholder; Outline placeholder; Sample Assignment Rubric

A Philosophical Response to FictionRainbow Curve; Lecture/Discussion Notes; To the Promised Land; Lecture/Discussion Notes; Lecture/Discussion Notes for Naked Reverse; Three Classes