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Module 04/Online Resources Nietzsche and Civil Disobedience.html

Survey the following resources to use in Discussions. You are not expected to read/view all of these, but you should be able to cite some of these in your Discussion postings.

Meta-Ethics: Nietzsche and the Function of Morality

• Video: Watch this crash course on Metaethics. (9:33)
• Read this introduction to Friedrich Nietzsche.
• Review this summary of Nietzsche's A Genealogy of Morals.
• Video:  See this video introduction to  Nietzsche's A Genealogy of Morals  (11:18)
• Video: Watch this lecture by Rick Roderick on Nietzsche and morality. (43:37)
• Video: See this introduction to Nietzsche. (6:59)

Civil Disobedience

• Consider the arguments of Aquinas on Civil Disobedience.
• Read this overview of Civil Disobedience.
• Explore the subject of Civil Disobedience further at Stanford.
• Read about Gandhi and Civil Disobedience.
• See this detailed study on Gandhi's non-violent movement of civil disobedience.
• Read about Martin Luther King's trip to India.
• Video: Watch this introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas. (6:14)
• Video: Watch this video on Thoreau on Civil Disobedience.  (5:28)
• Video: See this excerpt in which Gandhi speaks about his movement in the Salt March. (4:46)
• Video: Watch Ben Kingsley talk about Gandhi. (19:23)
• Video: See this recording of Dr. King on Civil Disobedience. (6:08)

(Learning Objectives Supported: 1b, 2a, 3a)