Sample Essays:
These essays each earned the grade of “A” in previous Phil 20 courses. (Student names have been removed):
Course Readings:
Judith Thomson – Thomson – The trolley problem
Plato – http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html
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Aristotle – Nicomachaen Ethics
JS Mill – Utilitarianism
Immanuel Kant – Categorical Imperative
John Rawls – A Theory of Justice
Elizabeth Anderson –Intro to Pluralism
Bell Hooks – Is Paris Burning?
Cho – Bell Hooks Critique
Marilyn Frye – Oppression
Judith Butler – butler_performative_acts
Maria Lugones – World Traveling
Peter Singer – Famine, Affluence, and Morality
John Hospers – Libertarianism
Bedau – Bedau Death Penalty
Thompson – A Defense of Abortion
Marry Anne Warren – The Problem With Abortion
Sidney Callahan – Feminism and Abortion
Plato – Republic Book 2 – Censorship
Kieran – Art and Pornography
NY Times OP ED – Can There Be Good Porn?
Nussbaum – Form and Content: Philosophy and Literature
Singer – Animal Liberation
Ayer – Language, Truth, Logic (Pages 66-77 ONLY)
Plato – Symposium
Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil CHAPTER 1 ONLY
Nietzsche – Thus Spake Zarathustra PROLOGUE ONLY