COLLEGE OF NURSING

ETHICAL SYSTEMS
COURSE OUTLINE AND TEXTBOOK CROSS REFERENCE
COURSE SYLLABUS TEXTBOOK
POSSIBLE SOURCES OF
UNIT CONTENT TEXTBOOK REFERENCE CASE SCENARIOS or
DISCUSSION POINTS
A. Ethics, Morality, Good, Values, Law, Etiquette, Critical
UNIT 1:
Thinking
Essential Concepts and B. Moral, Immoral, and Amoral Chapter 1: The Nature of Morality
Principles in Ethics C. Dilemma, Issue, and Problem Chapter 8: Setting Up a Moral System:
Chapter 12: Lying, Cheating, Breaking
Promises, and Stealing
A. Normative and Non-Normative Basic Assumptions and Basic Principles
UNIT 2:
B. Prescriptive, Descriptive, and Meta-Ethical
Basic Discourses in Ethics C. Situation Ethics
PRELIM EXAM
A. Subjectivism
UNIT 3: Chapter 13: Morality, Marriage, and
B. Conventionalism / Cultural Relativism Chapter 5: Absolutism vs Relativism
Relativism & Pluralism Human Sexuality
C. Emotivism
UNIT 4: A. Ethical Egoism
Chapter 2: Consequentialist Theories Chapters 12, 14, 15
Consequentialism B. Utilitarianism
UNIT 5 A. William James
Chapter 14, 15, 16
Pragmatism B. John Dewey
MIDTERM EXAM
Chapter 9: The Taking of Human Life
UNIT 6: A. Immanuel Kant Chapter 3: Nonconsequentialist Theories Chapter 10: Allowing Someone to Die
Deontological Ethics Chapter 11: Abortion
B. John Rawls Chapter 7: Reward and Punishment Chapter 14: Bioethics
A. Confucianism
Chapter 4: Virtue Ethics
B. Aristotelian Ethics
UNIT 7: C. Social Contract Theory
Chapter 7: Reward and Punishment
Ethics Outside Religion D. Hegel
E. Ethics and Politics
F. Existential Ethics
Chapters 12-16
A. Divine Command Theory
B. Oriental Ethics
UNIT 8: C. Islamic Ethics
Ethics and Religion D. Buddhism
E. Judaism
F. Christian
FINAL EXAM