Friday, November 16, 2007

Remaining classes

GENERAL TOPIC: DISCRIMINATION & PREJUDICE

Today/ Friday

· Singer: “All Animals Are Equal”

Monday

· Re-read Singer’s, “All Animals Are Equal”

· Simmons, “Reasonable Humans and Animals” – HANDOUT – 3 PAGES http://aphilosopher.googlepages.com/veg.pdf

· KANT 1 “Why we have no obligations to animals” – 1PAGE (HANDOUT)

· RACHELS EMP, P. 94-99; “Nonhuman Animals”

· MACHAN: “Do Animals Have Rights?” RTD – 177- 178; 184 (skim the rest, if you want)

MONDAY, AFTER BREAK

· Paper 4 due in class and on Turnit in .

· RTD, Singer “Is Racial Discrimination Arbitrary”?

· RTD, Rachels, “In Defense of Quotas”

WED

· RTD, MLK, “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”

· EMP, “The problem of civil disobedience,” 152-155