Ethics

Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere

Main Navigation
Index
FAQs
Check your Grades
Major/Minor

Course Navigation
Aesthetics
Critical Inquiry
Ethics
Introduction to Philosophy
Modern Philosophy
Theory of Knowledge

Ethics Navigation
Syllabus
Adobe Acrobat Downloads

"We are discussing no small matter, but how we ought to live"
-Socrates

"I have not slain men."
-Confession of a Righteous Soul, Egyptian Book of the Dead

"Men were brought into existence for the sake of men that they might do one another good."
-Cicero

"Do no unrighteousness in judgment."
-Leviticis xix 15

"The Master said love learning and if attacked be ready to die for the Good Way."
-Analects

"A good man does nothing for the sake of appearance, but for the sake of doing right."
-Epictetus

"The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right."
-Thomas Huxley

"Then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and reveling in joy. "
-H.P. Lovecraft

Online Lectures and Quizzes

This page provides information and material for Dr. Michael LaBossiere's Ethics course (PHI-3601).

From this page you can download the course readings, notes, paper information as well as the practice tests.

If you do not want to download the course pack, you can bring an UNUSED HD floppy disk to my office during office hours and I will copy the file to the disk.

Adobe Acrobat Downloads
The course notes, etc. are also available as Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these file. To view a file online (assuming you have installed the Reader software), click on the link. If you are using a PC and you want to download the file instead of viewing it online, right-click on the link and select the option to "Save Target As..." If you are using a Mac and you want to download the file instead of viewing it online, hold down the control button and click on the link, then select the option to "Save As..."

Ethics Notes & Readings (PDF)
Ethics Notes
Ethics Readings

Ethics Practice Tests (PDF)
Ethics Practice Test #1
Ethics Practice Test #2
Ethics Practice Test #3
Ethics Practice Test #4

Ethics Paper Information(PDF)
Paper Rules and Policies
Ethics Paper
Ethics Cases
DIY Ethics Case Form
Comment & Checklist Sheet

Recorded Lectures(MP3)
Introduction to Part III
Background for Socrates & Plato
The Ring of Gyges