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EthiCola is a program to help students learn moral
philosophy. It was last modified on 14 April 2012.
You can run it in Windows, Macintosh, or Linux.

To install EthiCola in Windows:
 CLICK HERE

After you click, you'll be asked: Do you want to RUN or SAVE this file? Click RUN; and keep insisting, if asked, that yes you do want to run this file. Soon this dialog box will appear:

Or click here to install EthiCola in Windows

Teachers: Check the box to install the score processor.

After you install EthiCola, click the cola-can icon to start the program:
If you installed to your flash drive, open it using MY COMPUTER so you can get to the EthiCola icon.
 Cola-can icon
EthiCola
If you installed to your computer, the icon will be on your desktop or on your Start-menu program list.

Ethics and the Golden Rule, to be published in late 2012 or early 2013 Formal Ethics Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction, second edition BOOKS: EthiCola goes with three of Gensler's Routledge books: Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (2011 & 1998), Formal Ethics (1996), and soon Ethics and the Golden Rule (late 2012 or early 2013).

MIRRORS: In case this page stops working, the same EthiCola download page is on three different sites: jcu.edu, harryhiker.com, and dropbox.com.

CLOUD SYNC: If you want to install EthiCola on multiple computers (not on a flash drive) and keep EthiCola scoring and configuration data in sync on all these computers, install a free Dropbox on each computer's desktop and turn on Cloud Sync using EthiCola's OPTIONS menu.

FURTHER UPDATES: If I modify EthiCola, you can repeat the setup process to update your program. But it's easier to update using TOOLS | UPDATE ETHICOLA on EthiCola's menu bar. Updating either way preserves your scores.

NON-WEB INSTALL: Not using the Web, you can install EthiCola to a flash drive from any computer that has EthiCola installed, using TOOLS | COPY SCORES OR PROGRAM TO FLASH DRIVE on EthiCola's menu bar.

WINDOWS VERSIONS: This current Windows version should work in Windows XP, Vista, and 7 -- whether 32- or 64-bit. For earlier Windows or DOS, use these zipped forms of my earlier MultiCola program for the Ethics and Formal Ethics books and the corresponding score processing program. EthiCola uses a different score format than the earlier MultiCola program; for EthiCola, you need to use the newer EthiSkor score processing program that installs with the EthiCola if you check the box to install it.

MACINTOSH & LINUX: You can also run EthiCola in Macintosh or Linux.

BLACKBOARD: You can set up Blackboard so that students can submit scores as WebCT assignments; see Chris Weigand's YouTube video and written instructions (both are about LogiCola scores, but EthiCola scores work the same way).

SHIRTS: Get a Golden Rule shirt (many styles available).

HANDOUT: Here's a handout about downloading EthiCola that teachers can give to their students.

OLDER BROTHER: EthiCola has an older brother, LogiCola, about logic.

These are things you can access also from EthiCola's HELP menu:

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS: a video on the golden rule, help files for EthiCola and EthiSkor, EthiCola News, a teacher manual for the second edition Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (and for the first edition), and classroom slides for the chapters of Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction: Introduction, Cultural Relativism, Subjectivism, Supernaturalism, Intuitionism, Emotivism, Prescriptivism, Consistency, The Golden Rule, Moral Rationality, Consequentialism, Nonconsequentialism, Virtue, Natural Law, Synthesis Chapter.