ETHICS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
RECOMMENDED READINGS
FALL–WINTER 2019
ESSENTIAL READING FOR THE WHOLE COURSE
Michael J. Sandel, Justice. What’ s the Right Thing To Do?, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2010 (hereinafter as: Sandel)
The Routledge Companion to Ethics, ed. by J. Skorupski, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2013 (hereinafter as: RCE)
RECOMMENDED READING FOR PARTICULAR TOPICS
MAPPING ETHICS. BASIC STREAMS OF ETHICAL REFLECTION BASIC:
- Sandel, Ch. 1
TELEOLOGY AND VIRTUE ETHICS BASIC:
- Sandel, Ch. 9
- RCE, Ch. 40 (Virtue ethics) ADDITIONAL: - RCE, Ch. 4 (Aristotle) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/ - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ DEONTOLOGY BASIC: - Sandel, Ch. 5
ADDITIONAL: - RCE, Ch. 14 (Kant) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/ CONSEQUENTIALISM BASIC: - Sandel, Ch. 2 - RCE, Ch. 37 (Consequentialism) ADDITIONAL:
- RCE, Ch. 13 (Utilitarianism to Bentham) - RCE, Ch. 16 (John Stuart Mill)
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/ CONTRACTUALISM BASIC: - Sandel, Ch. 6 - RCE, Ch. 41 (Contractualism) ADDITIONAL: - Sandel, Ch. 7
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/ particularly “4. Justice as Fairness: Justice within a Liberal Society”
DISCOURSE ETHICS BASIC:
http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/Forum/meta/background/HaberIntro.html
ADDITIONAL:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/ particularly “3.4 Habermas's Discourse Theory of Morality, Politics, and Law”
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