Remaining assignments:
- Paper 3 on poverty: this assignment was given out April 15th. See the blog. Due at final or Monday, May 12 at noon.
- Paper 4 on animals: this assignment was given out April 25th. See the blog. Due at final or Monday, May 12 at noon
- Extra credit Paper 5: extra this assignment was given out April 15th. See the blog. Due at final or Monday, May 12 at noon
SENIOR GRADES DUE: Tuesday MAY 6, 12 PM noon
SENIORS:
YOU CAN TAKE THE FINAL Monday, May 5th, 8:00 AM (Or 9) - 10:00 AM (OR it can go till 11). Everything due for seniors by the next Tuesday at 9 AM: nothing later.
ANY SENIOR WHO CAN’T DO THAT TIME, LET ME KNOW AND WE’LL FIND ANOTHER OPTION.
FINAL GRADES DUE FOR NON-SENIORS: Tuesday May 13, 12 PM noon
Therefore, everything – all writing assignments – are due my Monday, May 12 at noon or, ideally, just turn in everything at the final. No assignments are accepted via email.
3rd exam covers:
- EMP Chapter 5: Ethical egoism: arguments for & against
- Absolute poverty:
- Rachels arguments from EMP; objections and responses
- Singer’s famine / poverty aid argument(s) from “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”; objections and responses
- Singers’ “All Animals Are Equal” article
- His explanation why racism and sexism are wrong.
- His explanation why speciesism is wrong.
- Objections and replies; the details of the article. (See handout)
- Simmons’ article: his argument; objections and replies. (See handout)
- Kant and Machan on animals; objections and replies. (See handout)
- Singer, EMP, “Is Racial Discrimination Arbitrary?” 3 cases, his arguments, objections and replies
- Rachels, RTD, “In Defense of Quotas”; his arguments, objections and replies
- MLK, Letter from Birmingham Jail, in response to “A Call for Unity”
- MLK on the philosophical life – what he says in The Letter illustrates many of the attitudes and skills we have been trying to develop to use to address all ethical issues:
"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."
· The methods of reasoning we have used in this class.
