A very average class. I stopped reading half way through and it turned out fine because she goes over what you need to know in class. TAs grade everything so go to them for office hours for help on assignments. Jeffrey Carroll is the best TA at UVA.

She is a joke. Completely unprofessional, she shows up 3-10 minutes late to class every time, no exceptions. She will give some stupid excuse, knowing full well you showed up to her job way before she did. She is not a cool person. I had the best TA of all time and the slides were all uploaded to Collab, so I stopped going to lecture altogether after the first exam and still got an A. I thought the class would expose me to various topics and help me figure out what I wanted to do here, but I just learned one thing: Stay away from Stangl.

Very easy class but grading was not the easiest. Not worth taking unless you want a class that you can skip. Professor Stangl got off-topic every class, and the material covered was not presented well. The readings are interesting, but there is no reason to attend lecture.

Interesting class and pretty easy. Prof. Stangl lectures really well and provides a lot of examples to help you understand the ideas that various philosophers present. The first half of the semester is focused on Aristotle, Kant, and Mill, and the latter half is about modern philosophers and contemporary topics. You don't have to do the readings if you attend the lectures or read the powerpoints. There are two papers throughout the course, both of which graded by your TA, so your grade is pretty dependent on if the TA. The midterm & final have a study guide, and the questions are directly from the study guides. Overall, really interesting and easy class!

This was an interesting course and Stangl is very knowledgable. However, your grade completely depends on your TA and Lily wasn't very helpful or clear when it came to what she wanted as far as grading went. The exams have study guides so your main concern is papers. Some of the readings are pretty dense. The powerpoint doesn't really go in depth so attending lecture does help but isn't essential. It also isn't the end of the world if you don't do the readings.

Well I literally didn't go to lecture nor did I read for the entire semester and still got an A-, so there's that. All of the notes are online and don't cover everything you need for the finals or papers, but it's enough to point you in the right direction for night before research and googling.

You get the prompts to the midterm and final 2 weeks prior to the exam, so literally just google around for those and you'll be fine. Only read the work that was assigned for papers and was fine. Lecture is useless by all means. This class is really all about your TA because they are the ones grading everything. I was on great terms with my TA and he helped me a lot with my papers and prepping for the final and midterm - shocker I was fine when it came to grades because of this.

Bottom line: If you need to fill a humanities credit with an A and don't wanna work for it, you're in the right place.

The content was interesting but DID NOT like the professor. She went off on so many tangents and wasted a lot of time in class answering questions. We had very little time for the the material that was actually really interesting.

Professor Stangl's class was a very solid introduction to moral philosophy. WHOEVER IS READING THIS, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. It has nearly nothing to do with politics. Alternatively, if you want an application of the works of Mill, Kant, and Aristotle to our daily lives and moral dilemmas, then this class might be for you! If you are a competent writer, you can get away with not reading, which drastically reduces the amount of effort you have to put forth. Overall, I recommend this class to those who want actual philosophical perspectives to be built into their arsenals when debating their drunk relatives at the next family gathering.

Philosophy is NOT an easy class, no matter what you think when you sit through the first couple lectures. The first half of this class, especially, is kind of tough to understand, although Stangl tries her best to give real-life examples to make it easier. The second half is actually pretty interesting, and the midterm and final aren't too bad, especially because the questions that are going to be asked are on a study guide she gives out a week before. Still, this class is pretty dependent on the TA you get, because they do all the grading and it's up to them how critical they want to be of your arguments. Sheung Tak Lam was pretty great, so if you're taking this in spring or fall 14, you should definitely look out for him!

Professor Stangl is great and interesting to listen to most of the time, but the course is almost all about morals and virtues. All grading is done by TA and TAs vary drastically in leniency, mine was pretty tough so it may have skewed my opinion of the class. Overall though, I would probably take a class with Stangl again, but wouldn't recommend this one.