As was agreed upon in class yesterday, the quiz in Intro to Ethics has been postponed until Monday.  

Next assignments

Next Friday, February 24: Quiz 1, covering all material until the quiz.

 

For Friday: make a list of reasons that people give to think that homosexuality is wrong.

               For fun and good practice, formulate these reasons as logically valid arguments:

1. Premise:
2. Premise:
3. Conclusion: Therefore, homosexuality is wrong.

For Monday, read EMP Ch 3- Topics: Simple Subjectivism/Emotivism and HOMOSEXUALITY

Due this Monday, February 20: Create a detailed study guide covering all material, readings and concepts thusfar. This is for your benefit, so you want it to be comprehensive and detailed.

                             

 

I want to  make clear that chapter summaries can also be outlines: either would be fine.

Also, many people are not summarizing or outlining the whole chapter and/or providing adequate details about the chapter. Something that could help ensure that you have adequate details is this: suppose there was going to be a test over any aspects of the chapter and you could use your summary/outline for the test. Make your outline/summary as detailed as you'd want it to be to use for this test!

For Monday, re-read EMP Ch 2.


Read this article: "What's Culture Got to Do with it? Excising the Harmful Tradition of Female Circumcision"  

Do some YouTube research on "female genital mutilation" and/or "female circumcision."

Read this on how to write a philosophy paper:
http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/guidelines/writing.html 

Dear Students,

For Monday, please re-read EMP Ch. 1. We will finish discussing those cases and the themes of that chapter Monday.

Let's move the EMP Ch. 2 detailed summary assignment to a Wednesday due date.


Thanks, NN

Hi,
Reminder: please reread EMP CH 1 for Wed & Friday of this week.

New assignment: detailed summary of EMP Ch 2 for next Monday.

Thanks!
NN

Hi all,
Friday we developed some lists of morally wrong and MP/MO/otherwise good actions. We will use these lists as "data" and ask what it is about these, say, wrong actions that *makes* them wrong, and what it is about the non-wrong actions that *makes* them not wrong. We will develop some explanations or hypotheses (some moral theories). We will them compare our theories to some of the most historically influential theories found in the "Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy" article.

The reading and writing assignments for Monday are found on the blog.

Here are those lists/charts:

Actions that you  think almost everybody would think are obviously wrong. VIVID, Extreme and gruesome!

Actions that you  think almost everybody would think is MP, MO or GOOD – not wrong!

 

Actions that you  think almost everybody would think are obviously wrong -       Specific examples	?	Actions that you  think almost everybody would think is MP, MO or GOOD – not wrong
-       Embezzlement -       Torturing people for fun -       Needless cannibalism ? -       Rape -       Body dismemberment -       Not cleaning up after dog -       Massacring THIS CLASS -       Incest? = abusive relationships -       Pedophilia -       Kidnapping -       Punting “little people” who don’t want it -       Wealthy person stealing from a church or charity -       Killing people for for status.. for their shoes.. -       Chattel Slavery -       Preventing women from voting -       Holocaust -       Genocide … -       Apartheid -       Arson -       Cheating on spouse who expects to not be cheated on -       Nuclear attack	-       Needless cannibalism ? -	Going to church Donating organs Saving someone’s life.. Giving blood. Education Going to class Community service.. helping others Giving to charity. Protecting pregnant women. Being responsible for your own children. Being clean.

  

Actions (or character traits) that you think almost everybody would think are obviously wrong -       Vivid, extreme, gruesome examples. Specific examples -       Chopping off limbs for a hobby -       Child abuse .. beating your child -       Child molestation.. -       Littering -       Stealing organs -       Rape .. -       Not saving someone’s life if you could easily do so. -       Drunk driving.. -       Identify theft -       Killing someone for a dirty look .. or stepping on shoes.. or for shoes. -       Making 5 year olds smoke cigarettes -       Racism -       Slavery -       Hitler -       Holocaust -       Genocide – massacring people for no good reason -       Drag racing? -       Beating up people and bullying people just because weaker.. -

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Actions (or character traits) that you  think almost everybody would think is MP, MO or GOOD – not wrong J -Donating to charity Organ donor -Saving a drowning person in a pool -NOT cheating on your spouse who reasonably expects to not be cheated on… - being healthy - helping others.. - helping lost child find their parents at Wal Mart - preventing a kidnapping. Being truthful

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