TUE 1/25 (2) Origins of ethics – Questions about human nature

Readings for Tues. Jan. 25th:

From Section A of Peter Singer's Ethics Reader, please read the following selections:

• Introduction (pp.17-20)

• (1) Plato, Morality as Advantage of Stronger (pp. 21-26)

• (3) Mencius, Are Humans Good by Nature? (pp. 27-29)

• (4) Thomas Hobbes, On the Natural Condition (pp. 29-35)

• (5) J. J. Rousseau, The Natural State of Man (pp. 35-36)

• (9) C. Darwin, Origin of the Moral Sense (pp. 43-48)