Practical Moral Philosophy for Lawyers

Web Resources

The Socratic Dialogues

The two Socratic dialogues (authored by Plato) most relevant to Practical Moral Philosophy for Lawyers are Protagoras & Gorgias.

 

Protagoras
Benjamin Jowett, translation

A Brief Historical Sketch on Protagoras

Philosophy is Education is Politics: A Somewhat Aggressive Reading of Protagoras

 

Gorgias

Notes on James Boyd White's Reading of the Gorgias

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Gorgias

More Socrates Web Resources
Socrates & the Socratic Method

Philosophy

Philosophy (links collected by Professor James R. Elkins)

Critical Thinking

The Critical Project
Professor James R. Elkins, College of Law, West Virginia University
collection of web-resources
exploring the critical thinking movement

Archaeology of Criticism
James R. Elkins; fragments of philosophical arguments
which suggest the nature of our resistance to critical thinking)

Moral Reasoning & Ethical Decision-Making

A Framework for Universal Principal of Ethics

How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living

Feminist Ethics

Feminist Ethics: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Notes on Feminist Ethics

Applied Ethics

What is Applied Ethics?

Post-Modern Ethics

Postmodern Ethics: Richard Rorty & Michael Polanyi

Ethics Courses

Ethical Theory
Christian Perring, University of Kentucky

 

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