Introduction to Philosophy Parts 9-14

Part 9 Moral Problems

A Defense of Abortion
Judith Jarvis Thomson

On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Mary Anne Warren

Why Abortion Is Immoral
Don Marquis

Virtue Theory and Abortion
Rosalind Hursthouse

Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer

Part 10: Society

Democracy
John Dewey

Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.

What Is a Liberal Education?
Sidney Hook

Crito
Plato

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx

Part 11: Social Justice

A Theory of Justice
John Rawls

Distributive Justice
Robert Nozick

The Republic
Plato

Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes

Part 12: Art

The Republic
Plato

According to Plato, why is the work of the artist at the third remove from the essential nature of a thing?

Poetics
Aristotle

Do you agree with Aristotle that the first essential of tragedy is plot and characters come second?

Part 13: Life and Death

The Trolley Problem
Judith Jarvis Thomson

Can you imagine another hypothetical case akin to that of the trolley?

Phaedo
Plato

According to Socrates, how could Crito be of most service?

Writings
Epicurus

According to Epicurus, why is death nothing to us?

The Handbook
Epictetus

How does Epictetus recommend that we deal with loss?

Part 14: The Meaning of Life

Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Robert Nozick

Does Nozick believe any formula can capture the meaning of life?