Calendar

A schedule of the lecture topics and readings for Morality and Modernity

Session	Topic	Reading	Key Dates
1	Introduction	N/A
2	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
3	The origins of modernity: the scientific revolution	C.S. Lewis, "The Heavens"
4	The origins of modernity: the Reformation	J.M. Roberts, "Authority and its Challengers"
5	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
6	Modern moral disagreement	After Virtue, chapter 1
7	Film Screening: Thank You for Smoking	N/A
8	Modern moral disagreement	After Virtue, chapter 2
9	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
10	Modern moral disagreement	After Virtue, chapter 3
11	The history of modern ethics	After Virtue, chapter 4
12	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
13	The history of modern ethics	After Virtue, chapter 5
14	The history of modern ethics	After Virtue, chapter 6
15	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
16	Immanuel Kant	Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, First Section	First paper due
17	Immanuel Kant	Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Second Section
18	Film Screening: Match Point	N/A
19	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
20	Friedrich Nietzsche	N/A
21	Midterm Examination	N/A
22	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
23	Friedrich Niezsche	Genealogy of Morals, First Essay
24	Aristotle or Nietzsche?	After Virtue, chapter 9
25	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
26	The tradition of the virtues	After Virtue, chapter 10 and 11
27	The tradition of the virtues	After Virtue, chapter 12 and 13
28	Virtues and practices	After Virtue, chapter 14
29	Film Screening: Groundhog Day	N/A
30	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
31	Virtues and practices	After Virtue, chapter 15	Second paper due
32	An Aristotelian interpretation of Groundhog Day	N/A
33	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
34	Charles Taylor	The Ethics of Authenticity, chapters 1-3
35	Charles Taylor	The Ethics of Authenticity, chapters 4 and 5
36	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
37	Charles Taylor	The Ethics of Authenticity, chapters 6-10
38	Taylor or MacIntyre?	Charles Taylor, "Two Theories of Modernity"
39	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
40	Modernity: a new dark age?	After Virtue, chapter 18
41	Catholicism and modernity	Benedict XVI, Regensburg Address
42	DISCUSSION SECTION	N/A
43	Q&A with Alasdair MacIntyre	N/A
44	Final remarks	N/A	Third paper due
45	Final Examination	N/A

Citation: Solomon, D., Wicks, P. (2008, August 11). Calendar. Retrieved May 23, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/philosophy/morality-and-modernity/readings.