Week	Topic	Historical period	Study philosophers	Think critically
Week 1	Subject: “Who am I?”	Ancient Ethics (Virtue Ethics)	Virtue Ethics, Plato, The Republic, “The Ring of Gyges”  Virtue Ethics, Plato, The Philebus	Are good and bad innate?
Week 2			Virtue Ethics, Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics	Is there a limit to the respect for cultures?
Week 3			Virtue Ethics, Stoics, Epictetus “Fragment”	Tolerance of violence, what about the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution?
Week 4			Virtue Ethics, Epicureanism, Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus	Is there a human nature?
Week 5	Culture: “Who are we?”	Medieval Ethics	Jewish Ethics, Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah	Can religion dictate morality?
Week 6			Christian Ethics, Ambrose, On the Duties of the Ministry Christian Ethics, Ailred of Rievaulx, On Spiritual Friendships	What can be the origin of morality?
Week 7			Christian Ethics, Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologiae	Can reason serve evil?
Week 8			Islamic Ethics, Al Farabi, The Perfect State Islamic Ethics, Avicenna, Shefa	Can science be developed without taking morality into consideration?
Week 9	Reason and Real: “What can we know?”	Modern Ethics	Consequentialism, Hobbes, Leviathan  Meta-Ethics, Hume, An Enquiry into the Principles of Moral	Is morality necessary for social life?
Week 10			Normative Ethics, Kant, Metaphysics of Moral	Does morality depend on the state’s laws?
Week 11			Utilitarianism, Bentham, Principles of Moral and Legislation A. Smith, The Wealth of Nations	Is politics compatible with morality?
Week 12			Ethical Nihilism, Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil	Is it the case that every human life has the same value?
Week 13	Politics: “How to live together?”	Contemporary Ethics	Meta-ethics, Moore, Principia Ethica	What is a person?
Week 14			Emotivism, Stevenson, Ethics and Language	Is any pleasure good?
Week 15			Existentialism, Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism Normative and Meta-ethics, Rawls, A Theory of Justice	Is there any merit in being generous?
Week 16			Right theory, Nozik, Anarchy, State, and Utopia  Virtue-ethics, McIntyre, After Virtue	Should we forgive?