Lesson: Moral Emotions
In Mengzi 1A7, Mengzi attempts to train a king who is skeptical that he can be a benevolent ruler.
Lesson: Criminal Parents
What should a person do if her parents commit a crime? Should she immediately turn them into the authorities?
Unit: Psychological Obstacles to Acting Ethically
Most undergraduate students want to be morally good people, and most ethics instructors want to help them be morally good people. Part of accomplishing this task is teaching students how to engage in moral reasoning and examine difficult moral questions, which is what most ethics… Read More »Unit: Psychological Obstacles to Acting Ethically
Unit: Care of the Dead
The early Chinese philosophers argued heatedly about how to care for the dead. In this unit, three of the most distinctive views of the period are presented. These can be treated together but also easily break apart for smaller lessons or units with other materials.
Unit: Chinese Philosophy of Human Rights
This unit is a six-class arc introducing 20th- and 21st-century Chinese perspectives on human rights.
Primer: Care Ethics
Care ethicists do ethical theory with special attention to human connection and relationships of care. These relationships have ethical dimensions that other ethical traditions tend not to address, are poorly placed to speak to, or both. Care ethics is, thus, (at least) an important supplement… Read More »Primer: Care Ethics
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