Teaching Ethics with Three Philosophical Novels

• Main Author: Boylan, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.

This book offers a unique method for teaching ethics and social/political philosophy by combining primary texts and resource material along with three philosophical novels so that students can apply the abstract principles to real-life situations. A sample syllabus and sample assignments are provide...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Using Fiction to teach Philosophical Ethics
• Part One: A very short textbook on ethics with primary readings
• Chapter One: First Order Metaethical Principles: Boylan's Philosophical Work on Ethics and Personhood Theory
• Chapter Two: Virtue Ethics with selections from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
• Chapter Three: Utilitarianism with a selection from Mill's Utilitarianism
• Chapter Four: Deontology with a selection from Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
• Part Two: The Novels
• Chapter Five: Rainbow Curve
• Chapter Six: To the Promised Land
• Chapter Seven: Naked Reverse
• Appendix: Sample Syllabus and Paper Rubric.