Week 1: What is, What I/We want to be and What ought to be

Introduction to the Course
Ethical Pre-Understanding of Real Situations
What is Ethics?
Human Person in Human Relations
Human Relations in Institutional Intermediation
Social and Economic Ethics
Seminar:

Required Reading – Promotion
Moral Reasoning

Sound and Valid Arguments
Consequentialist x Categorical Reasoning

Required Reading:

Plato: The Republic. 2nd Book. (Can be found on web)

Week 2: Justice and Coordination

Where the Notion of Justice Comes from
Virtues
Coordination
Seminar:

Required Reading - Promotion
Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Legality of Drugs”

Required Reading:

Alisdair MacIntyre: After Virtue. Chapter 14: "The Nature of the Virtues"

(https://epistemh.pbworks.com/f/4.+Macintyre.pdf )

Optional Readings:

http://web.uncg.edu/dcl/courses/viceCrime/m6/nadelmann%20-%20the%20case%20for%20legalization.htm

https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-wilson/against-the-legalization-of-drugs

Week 3: Utilitarianism and Justice

Empiricist Ethics
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism in Economics after the Marginalist Revolution
Seminar:

Required Reading - Promotion
Discussion of the 1^st homework
Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Abortion”

Required Reading:

Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Moral and Legislation. Chapters 1-4.

(https://www.econlib.org/library/Bentham/bnthPML.html)

Optional Readings:

http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm

http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/45.marquis.pdf

Week 4: Economics as Social Science

Individuals and Social Structure
Philosophy of Economics
Seminar:

Required Reading - Promotion
Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Helping to the Poor” and “Migration”

Required Reading:

Ludwig von Mises: Human Action. Introduction and Chapter I "Acting Man"

(https://cdn.mises.org/Human%20Action_3.pdf )

Optional Readings:

https://www.jefftk.com/rachels-2013-immorality-having-children.pdf

http://users.manchester.edu/Facstaff/SSNaragon/Online/texts/425/Sen,%20PropertyHunger.pdf

http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles_pdf/living_on_a_lifeboat.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/magazine/the-singer-solution-to-world-poverty.html

Week 5: Justice in Neoclassical Synthesis and Postkeynesian Economics

Neoclassical Synthesis x Postkeynesian Economics, Epistemological and Methodological Differences
Theory of Choice

Mainstream Approach
Uncertainty, Substantial and Procedural Rationality
Post Keynesian Approach

Labour Market and Justice

Mainstream Approach
Post Keynesian Approach

Inflation and Justice

Mainstream Approach
Post Keynesian Approach

Seminar:

Required Reading - Promotion
Discussion of the 2^nd homework
Exercising of moral reasoning on “The Ethics of War and Peace”

Required Reading:

David Hume: The Treatise of Human Nature. Book 3 “Morals”, Part 2 “Justice and injustice”, from 1 to 6

https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/hume1740book3.pdf

Optional Readings:

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil100/14.%20The%20Ethics%20of%20War%20and%20Peace.pdf

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1428085978JohnRawls.pdf

Week 6: Psyche, Transcendentality and Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant and Transcendental Philosophy
Psyche

Sigmund Freud
Karl Gustav Jung

Immanuel Kant and Categorical (Deontological) Reasoning
Thomas Aquinas and Conscience
Seminar:

Required Reading – Promotion
Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Terrorism and Torture”

Required Reading:

Immanuel Kant: Toward Perpetual Peace. Introcduction, Section 1, Section 2.

https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1795_1.pdf

Optional Readings:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2002/11/27/0000184966

http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1163&context=facpub

Week 7: Happiness, Selfrealization and Freedom

Happiness

Easterline Paradox

Sense of Life
Selfrealization and Freedom
Guilt and Shame
Seminar:

Required Reading - Promotion
Discussion of the 3^rd homework
Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Family, Marriage and Household “

Required Reading:

Friedrich August von Hayek: Law, Legislation and Liberty - Volume 1, Chapter 4 "The Changing Concept of Law"

(https://libsa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/hayek-law-legislation-and-liberty.pdf )

Optional Readings:

https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5933&context=lalrev

https://newrepublic.com/article/103297/for-better-or-worse-gay-straight-marriage

Week 8: Social Stability, Order and Liberty

Four Levels of Assessing Behaviour
Iterative Relation between Personal Rules and Social Norms
Social Stability - Giving Reasons to Ethical Norms
Order x Liberty
Seminar:

Required Reading - Promotion
Language, Freedom of Speech, Censorship, Hate Speech and Violence

Required Reading:

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty. Chapters 1 and 2. (https://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlLbty.html)

Optional Readings:

https://bigthink.com/thinking/is-speech-violence/

Week 9: Constitutional Economics

Constitutional Economics

Origin
Constitutional Contract
The Contractarian Birth of State
Post constitutional Contract
Public Goods and Common Resources
Status Quo
Contractual Changes in Status Quo
Roles of the State
Seminar:

Required Reading - Promotion
Discussion of the 4^th homework
Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Animals”
Ethology and Konrad Lorenz

Required Reading:

This time, it is about listening to James Buchanan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=178aognlYHA

Optional Readings:

https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/singer.pdf

https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200,Spr07/cohen.pdf

Week 10: Justice and Democracy

Justice as Fairness
Libertarianism
Democracy: development of the idea
Majority Voting
Democracy: insight of economists
Seminar:

Required Reading – Promotion
Exercising of Moral Reasoning on “Environment”

Required Reading:

Jurgen Habermas: Between Facts and Norms - Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy: Chapter 3.2 "Moral Norms and Legal Norms: On the Complementary Relation between Natural Law and Positive Law"

https://teddykw2.fi