9/7 (Week 1) Introduction

• No reading

<<Western Virtue Ethics>>

9/14 (Week 2) Classical Western Virtue Ethics, and Contemporary Reflections

• Aristotle (in Welchman, 2-38)
• Seneca (in Welchman, 39-57)
• Swanton, Virtue Ethics, chs. 3 and 4 (ERes)

Chinese Philosophy Bootcamp this Sunday, 9/16, 2-5 pm [tentative]

9/21 (Week 3) European Sentimentalist Virtue Ethics, and Contemporary Developments

• Hutcheson (in Welchman, 58-81)
• Hume (in Welchman, 82-108)
• Taylor, "Humean Humanity Versus Hate" (In Welchman)
• Slote, "Famine, Affluence, and Virtue" (ERes)

Paper One assigned, Due Monday, 10/1, 5pm

<<Classical Confucianism>>

9/28 (Week 4) Analects/Kongzi (Confucius)

• Ivanhoe and Van Norden, eds., Readings..., Chapter One (Kongzi), selections
• Van Norden, Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy, Chapter 2, selections (ERes)

10/5 (Week 5) Mengzi (Mencius)

• Ivanhoe and Van Norden, eds., Readings..., Chapter Three (Mengzi), selections
• Van Norden, Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy, Chapter 4, selections (ERes)

10/12 (Week 6) Xunzi

• Ivanhoe and Van Norden, eds., Readings..., Chapter Six (Xunzi), selections
• Stalnaker, Overcoming Our Evil, Chapter Six, selections (ERes)

<<Comparative Issues>>

10/19 (Week 7)

• Schneewind, "Misfortunes of Virtue" (ERes)
• Sim, "Virtue-Oriented Politics : Confucius and Aristotle," from Remastering Morals With Aristotle and Confucius (ERes)
• Angle, "Sages and Politics: AWay Forward" (handed out)

Paper Two assigned, Due in class, 11/2

10/26 No Class

11/2 (Week 8) Zhong Yong and the "Mean"

• Sim, "Harmony and the Mean in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Zhongyong" from Remastering Morals With Aristotle and Confucius, Chapter Four (ERes)
• Yu, "Virtue, the Mean, and Disposition" from The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle : Mirrors of Virtue, Chapter Three (ERes)

Paper Two Due in class

11/9 (Week 9) External Goods and Moral Luck

• Yu, "The highest good and external goods" from The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle : Mirrors of Virtue, Chapter Three (ERes)
• Tessman, "Regretting the Self One Is" from Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles, Chapter One (ERes)

11/16 (Week 10) Courage

• Review Mengzi 2A:2
• Review/Read Nichomachean Ethics, Book 2 and Book 3, chs. 6-12. (Welchman's selections are sufficient for Book 2, but for Book 3, use Past Masters.)
• Van Norden, "Mencius on Courage" (ERes)

Prof. Manyul Im, Fairfield University, will join us in class today

Research Paper Topic Due in class

11/23 Thanksgiving

11/30 (Week 11) Ritual and Reverence

• Woodruff, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue

12/7 (Week 12) Filial Piety

• Ivanhoe. "Filial Piety as a Virtue" (ERes)
• Liu Qingping, "Confucianism and Corruption" (ERes)
• Guo Qiyong, "Is Confucian Ethics a 'Consanguinism'?" (ERes)

Research Paper Rough Draft Due in class

TBA Research Paper Due, 5 p.m.