Prefer a squeeze from the front or behind ? <| sep |> Ethics . It was a required course for Freshmen or sophomores , but I was in the section for Philosophy students I was thinking about it at the time . The class was at the grad school level . There was only one writing assignment a commentary on one of the books we read , Nicomachean Ethics , Meditations of Marcus Aurelius , The Enchiridion of Epictetus , City of God , Thomas Aquinas ' Treatise on Law , Utilitarianism , The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals , Beyond Good and Evil , Ressentiment and several handouts which I don ' t recall . We were supposed to do a commentary on an article like Decisions about Death or Utilitarianism and Vegetarianism by Peter Singer , or something like that . That wasn ' t clear , though , and everyone did it on Aristotle ' s Ethics or Beyond Good and Evil . Most people in the class wrote over 100 pages . It was only the promised 25 if you did it on an article .