Fall 2010

Varieties of Ethical Skepticism - LPHI 2037 A

Professor(s):  Zed Adams 
Day(s):  TR
Time(s):  10:00 am - 11:40 am 
CRN:  6779
Credits:  4
Prerequisite(s): 

Course Description
Is being good all that it is cracked up to be? What reason, if any, do we have for being good? Is it even possible to know what goodness is? Are there really any ethical truths? Or is ethical "truth" simply something that we've been duped into believing in? This course is an examination of the varieties of ethical skepticism that philosophers have been concerned with from ancient Greece to today. Texts to be discussed include: Plato, *Gorgias*; Sextus Empiricus, *Against the Ethicists*; Montaigne, *An Apology for Raymond Sebond*; Hobbes, *Leviathan*; Hume, *A Treatise of Human Nature*; Nietzsche, *The Genealogy of Morality*; Ayer, *Language, Truth, and Logic*; Williams, *Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy*.
 
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