- Week 1
  
  Introduction to the course (Linking Ethics and Economics. Institutions, Organizations and Ethics)
  
  Consequentialist x Categorical Reasoning
  
  Ethical Pre-Understanding of Real Situations
  
  Empiricist Ethics (Empiricism. Hedonism. David Hume. Utilitarianism)
  
  Moral reasoning: sound and valid arguments
  
  Utility in Economic Models
  
  What is Ethics? (Ethics as Practical Philosophy. Forms of Ethics)
  
  Required Reading:
  
  Max Weber: Politics as Vocation (Can be found on web) e.g. http://anthropos-lab.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Weber-Politics-as-a-Vocation.pdf
  
  Week 2
  
  Philosophy - Selected Topics
  
  Philosophy of Science
  
  Philosophy of Social Science
  
  Exercising of moral reasoning on Legality of Drugs
  
  Required Reading:
  
  John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism (e.g. https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/mill1863.pdf )
  
  Optional Readings:
  
  http://web.uncg.edu/dcl/courses/viceCrime/m6/nadelmann%20-%20the%20case%20for%20legalization.htm
  
  https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/against-the-legalization-of-drugs/
  
  Week 3
  
  Philosophy of Social Science - Continued
       Macrosocial Science and Functionalism
  
       Moral Questions and Social Science
  
  Philosophy of Economics
  
  Exercising of moral reasoning on abortion
  
  Required Reading:
  Milton Friedman - The Methodology of Positive Economics (e.g. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0c3puZ2F3b25nfGd4OjE3MDM2MDQ3OWRmZWE1NTY )
  
  Optional Readings:
  
  http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm
  
  http://faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/45.marquis.pdf
  
  Week 4
  
  From Personal to Social and Economic Ethics
  
                 Human Person in Human Relations
                 Human Relations in Institutional Intermediation
  
                 Social and Economic ethics
  
  Comparison of methodological and theoretical bases of Neoclasical Synthesis and Postkeynesian Economics
  
  Exercising of moral reasoning on migration
  
  Required Reading:
  
  Ludwig von Mises: Human Action - Introduction (Economics and Praxeology, The Epistemological Problem of a General Theory of Human Action, Economic Theory and the Practice of Human Action, Résumé) (e.g. https://cdn.mises.org/Human%20Action_3.pdf )
  
  Optional Readings:
  
  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
  
  Theory of Choice
  
  Immanuel Kant and Categorical Reasoning
  
  Thomas Aquinas and Conscience
  
  Exercising of moral reasoning on "helping to the poor"
  
  Comparison of different approaches: Ethical Egoism, Social Contract approach, Utilitarianism and Christian approach
  
  Required Reading:
  
  Friedrich August von Hayek: Law, legislation and Liberty - Chapter 7 (General Welfare and Particular Purposes) (e.g. https://libsa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/hayek-law-legislation-and-liberty.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
  
  Week 6
  
  Four Levels for Judgement of Rules
  
  Iterative Relation between Individual Rules and Social Norms
  
  Psyche – Psychological and Philosophical Insight
  
  Social Stability - Giving Reasons to Ethical Norms
  
  Are there some universal human rights?
  
  Exercising of moral reasoning on the ethics of war and peace
  
  Required Reading:
  
  CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conducts (just 2 pages) (please find on https://www.cfainstitute.org/pages/index.aspx under EthicsAndStandards)
  
  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 7
  
  Constitutional Economics I
  
  Origin
  
  Constitutional Contract
  
  The Contractarian Birth of State
  
  Postconstitutional Contract
  
  Public Goods and Common Resources
  
  Selfrealization and Freedom I
  
  Exercising of financial analysts ethics: Ethics Codes, CFA Ethics Code, CFA Standards of Professional Conduct
  
  Required Reading:
  
  Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) (e.g. https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/blog.nus.edu.sg/dist/c/1868/files/2012/12/Kant-Groundwork-ng0pby.pdf )
  
  Week 8
  
  Constitutional Economics II
  
  Status Quo
  
  Contractual Changes in the Status Quo
  
  Dual Capacity of State
  
  Order as Public Goods
  
  Order as Public Capital Goods
  
  Are we not governed too much?
  
  What can we do with that?
  
  Redistributive Role of the State
  
  Selfrealization and Freedom II
  
  Guilt and Shame
  
  Exercising of moral reasoning on terrorism and torture
  
  Required Reading:
  
  Karl Raimund Popper: The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1 - Chapter 1 (Historicism and the Myth of Destiny) and Chapter 9 (Estheticism, Radicalism and Utopianism) (e.g. on https://epdf.pub/the-open-society-and-its-enemies-the-spell-of-platoa93dec0c92690f48572982c5940e421739524.html (download as Full Text)
  
  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 9: