Things to do:
1. Have you carefully read the syllabus? Any questions?
2. Have you signed up for the email group?
3. Have you created a Turnitin.com account?
4. Have you gotten the course materials, i.e., books? If not, when will you get them?\
5. Here's a video to watch, in addition to the assignments below:
First reading and writing assignments:
1. Have you carefully read the syllabus? Any questions?
2. Have you signed up for the email group?
3. Have you created a Turnitin.com account?
4. Have you gotten the course materials, i.e., books? If not, when will you get them?\
5. Here's a video to watch, in addition to the assignments below:
First reading and writing assignments:
For Monday and Wednesday (8/and 8/28):
o
Rachels, The
Right Thing t o
Do (RTD: Ch. 2, “Some Basic Point s
About Argument s,”
available here for students who don’t yet
have t he books: http://aphilosopher.googlepages.com/rachels-on-arguments.pdf
Handouts on Overview of Logic and Argument s
· Overview of Basic Moral Evaluat ions: Morally Permissible, Obligat ory, Impermissible/Wrong
o Available
in Making
Moral Progress here, in the section “Right and Wrong? Wrong”:
SEE ABOVE FOR UPDATED DATES: For next
Friday (8/30):
o
Rachels, The
Right Thing t o
Do: Ch.1 “A Short Int roduct ion
t o Moral Philosophy,” available here
for students don’t yet have t he books: http://aphilosopher.googlepages.com/rachels-intro-to-ethics.pdf
After this, we will briefly review the later chapters on utilitarian and Kantian moral theory in greater detail, discuss John Rawls’s moral theory, an African ethical theory [ some writings from http://philpapers.org/s/Thaddeus%20Metz [and then return to earlier chapters of the Elements of Moral Philosophy and related readings in The Right Thing to Do.
DUE (Wednesday, 9/4): WITHOUT READING
ANYTHING ABOUT THESE TOPICS – E.G., DO NOT SEARCH THE INTERNET – please write
a short (2-3 page) essay that addresses one of these questions:
·
Is the death
penalty wrong?
·
Is affirmative
action wrong?
·
Is it wrong to
use illegal drugs, such as marijuana?
·
Suppose a
married woman did not any more children but became pregnant. She could raise
another child but does not want to. Would it be wrong for her to have an
abortion? Assume the father would support her decision, whatever it is.
·
Are racism
and/or sexism wrong? Why?
·
Or another moral issue, with approval of the
instructor, but not homosexuality or the treatment of animals.
Please discuss at least
three arguments relevant to the issue.
Please write this essay
on the basis of what you already know: again, please do not do any research
for this paper (if you do, Turnitin might reveal that and you will be
penalized!). This is an assignment to measure where you are at now. If you
take it seriously and put in a good effort, your grade will reflect that. J
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For Monday (9/9) Ch. 1, "What is Morality?"
(Element s of Moral Philosophy,
EMP):
Writing assignment 1: very detailed
summary OR OUTLINE of this chapter, covering every section.
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