University of Kansas, Fall 2003
Philosophy 672: History of Ethics
Ben Eggleston—eggleston@ku.edu

History of Ethics

Welcome to the course! Consider this page to be a “pre-syllabus”—a very preliminary guide to the course, with the information that you need to have right now (including information about how to get much more information).

The full syllabus is available on the web site for the course, at

http://people.ku.edu/~be75/courses/historye2

(You can get to this site by typing in ‘people.ku.edu/~be75’—at which point you’ll be at my personal web site—and then using the links to get to the above site.) I strongly encourage you to visit this site at your earliest convenience, to familiarize yourself with its contents, and also to bookmark it and to check it regularly. I tend to make small changes to my courses’ syllabi (reading assignments, etc.) as courses progress, so you should check the syllabus online rather than printing a hard copy at the beginning and then relying on it throughout the semester. Also, as the course progresses, I’ll be posting other course documents, such as class notes and writing assignments, on this site.

Along with visiting the course web site, the other thing you should do right away is to buy the books for the course (if you have not already done so). They are

• Aristotle, , trans. by (Hackett Publishing Company, 1999)
• David Hume, , ed. by and Mary J. Norton (Oxford University Press, 2000)
• Immanuel Kant, , trans. and ed. by Mary Gregor, with an introduction by (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
• J. S. Mill, , ed. by (Oxford University Press, 1998)

You can buy them on campus (I ordered them as textbooks), or elsewhere, including online. Be sure to get the first one, in particular, right away, since you’ll need to read some of it before our second class on Monday, August 25.