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MIT OpenCourseWare
Literature and Ethical Values
- Instructor
- Prof. Alvin Kibel
- Term
- Fall 2002
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 10 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.450 Literature and Ethical Values, Fall 2002, Prof. Alvin Kibel — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
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Materials by section
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Readings
- Sophocles. Antigone. Martin Luther King. Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Download
- Plato. The Republic. Parts I and II (pp. 61-128) [327a-376c].** Download
- Machiavelli. Excerpt from The Prince. Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. Download
- Kant, Immanuel. Excerpts from Metaphysics of Morals. Download
- Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Download
- O’Connor, Flannery. “The Displaced Person.” Download
Assignments
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Sophocles, Antigone . Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
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Lecture 3: Plato, The Republic. Parts I and II (pp. 61-128) [327a-376c]**.
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Lecture 4: Plato, The Republic . Part III, section 2 (pp. 166-176) [403d-412a]; Parts IV and V (pp. 177- 24) [412a-445d].
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Lecture 5: Plato, The Republic. Part VII (pp. 260-325) [471c-521b], Part IX, section 10 (pp. 398-420) [576c-592a].
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Lecture 6: Aristotle, excerpt from Nichomachean Ethics.
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Lecture 7: Aristotle, excerpt from Nichomachean Ethics.
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Lecture 8: Excerpt from The Gospel According to St Matthew. Dante*, Inferno.*
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Lecture 9: Dante, Inferno.
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Lecture 10: Dante, Inferno.
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Lecture 11: Machiavelli, excerpt from The Prince. Shakespeare*, Julius Caesar.*
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Lecture 12: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.
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Lecture 13: Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.
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Lecture 14: Thomas Hobbes, excerpt from Leviathan.
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Lecture 15: Herman Melville, Billy Budd.
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Lecture 16: Herman Melville, Billy Budd.
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Lecture 17: Kant: Excerpts from Metaphysics of Morals.
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Lecture 18: J. S. Mill, excerpts from Utilitarianism.
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Lecture 19: Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment , Part I.
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Lecture 20: Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment , Part II, Part III, ch. 1-3.
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Lecture 21: Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment , Part III, 4-end, Part IV, Part V.
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Lecture 22: Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment , Part VI, Epilogue.
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Lecture 23: Conrad, “The Secret Sharer.”
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Lecture 24: Shaw, Major Barbara.
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Lecture 25: Shaw, Major Barbara.
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Lecture 26: Flannery O. Connor, “The Displaced Person.”
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Alvin Kibel, 21L.450 Literature and Ethical Values, Fall 2002.
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