| Monday, January 9 |
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Introductions and overview
Lecture (Cowan):
What is Ethics? Why do ethics?
Film Clip: “Return to
Paradise
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and discussion in small groups |
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Assignments |
Read:
“Maryville College: An Early Leader in the Struggle for Bi-Racial
Education in Tennessee, 1819-1901” online at: www.geocities.com/Nashville/9475/maryville.htm
(Go to www.google.com
and enter title of article.)
Write: 1-page response to
article (1): This article
shows a number of persons acting as ethical agents, with various decisions
to make, and coming to different conclusions.
Pick one person or group and reflect on the question facing them,
the values or principles they seemed to follow, and action they took.
Were they right or wrong, and how do you judge that?
Read: MacKinnon,
Chapter 1 (pp.
2-15) and
pp. 489-491
Read: Giardina, 1-18 |
| Tuesday, January
10 |
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Web exercise:
http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/
Discussion: MC Covenant as moral/ethical document
Lecture (McKee): What is an
ethical argument?
Discussion: Race article and response papers and Case Study model |
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Assignments |
Read:
Giardina, 19-75
Read:
MacKinnon, Chapter 2 (pp. 20-30)
Read: Rachels
article “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” in Ethics:
History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues by Cahn and Markie (on
reserve in library)
Read: Porter article
“An Anthropological Defense of Child Labor” (on Reserve)
Write: 1-2 page (typed) response to the Rachels and Porter articles
(2): Summarize main points, make connections to McKinnon, write your
reactions and evaluations of the articles, and raise questions for
discussion.
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| Wednesday,
January 11 |
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Discussion: Giardina
Lecture (McKee): Moral Relativism
Discussion: Rachels and
Porter articles |
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Assignments |
Read: Giardina, 76-157
Prepare for Quiz 1 on
Giardina
Read: MacKinnon, Ch.6 (pp. 89-105) and Ch. 7 (pp. 107-112
only) |
| Thursday,
January 12 |
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Quiz 1 on Giardina (pp. 1-157)
Discussion: Giardina, test
Lecture: (Cowan): Aristotle
Discussion: Aristotle and Case Study |
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Assignments |
Read: McKinnon, Ch. 4 ( pp. 47-64)
Read: Giardina, 158-208
Write: 1-page reflection (3).
Case study practice |
| Friday,
January 13 |
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Discuss: Giardina, reflection
papers
Lecture: (Cowan): Utilitarianism
Discuss: Utilitarianism, Case Study practice
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Assignments |
Read:
Letter from Birmingham Jail available online at http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=40#
Read: McKinnon, Chapter 12 (pp. 242-270)
Write: 1-2 page reflection (4): Analyze and
evaluate the MLK Letter as an ethical argument.
Begin prep for Exam 1 |
| Monday, January
16 |
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Meet in class from 9:00-10:30
Attend MLK
event on campus
Discuss: Race, Reflection papers
Review for Test
MLK programming: 10:30-12:00 or 2:45-4:15 |
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Assignments |
Study for Exam 1 |
| Tuesday, January
17 |
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Exam 1
Film: Churches and Nazi
Germany
Discussion with film producer |
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Assignments |
Read: Giardina, pp. 209-262
Prepare for Quiz II on Giardina
Read: MacKinnon, Ch. 5 ( pp. 66-87) |
| Wednesday,
January 18 |
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Quiz II on Giardina (pp. 158-262)
Discuss: Giardina
Lecture (McKee): Kant
Discuss: Kant and case study |
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Assignments |
Read: MacKinnon, Ch. 13 (pp.
272-300)
Read: Giardina, pp. 263-334
Write: 1-2
page (typed) response to Rawls’ “Justice as Fairness” (5): Summarize main points, make connections to other
readings, write your reactions and evaluations of the article, and raise
questions for discussion. |
| Thursday,
January 19 |
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Discuss: Return test and discuss
Lecture (Cowan): Economic Justice and Rawls
Discuss: Economic Justice/Rawls |
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Assignments |
Read: Giardina, 335-386
Prepare for Quiz III on Giardina
Read: Vocation assignment in packet on Reserve: Palmer, Broder,
Buechner, and Cameron.
Read: “The Reformed Tradition
in Theological Ethics,” Doublas F. Ottati, in Christian Ethics,
Problems and Prospects (on Reserve in the library). |
| Friday,
January 20 |
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Quiz III on Giardina (pp.
263-386)
Discuss: Giardina
Lecture (McKee): Vocation and Theological Perspectives
Discuss: Vocation and Final
Assignment
Film: Entertaining Angels |
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Assignments |
Write: 1-2 page reflection (6): How does being religious
or not change one’s ethic? Use your own particular religious background
or lack of religious background in your reflections: What has this
heritage/system of belief given you as tools for ethical reflection?
Read: Chapter 9 “Making Biblical Resources Available” in Birch and
Rasmussen The Bible and Christian Ethics (on reserve)
Read: Giardina, pp. 387-447 |
| Monday, January
23 |
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Discuss: Faith, Vocation, and
Service
Lecture (Cowan): The Bible and Ethics
Discuss: The Bible and
Ethics
Review for test |
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Assignments |
Study
for Exam 2
Read: Groupman,
“The Last Deal,” http://www.jeromegroopman.com/ld.html
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| Tuesday, January
24 |
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Exam 2
(75 min.)
Lecture and Discussion (JCowan):
Medical Ethics and End of Life Issues |
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Assignments |
Read: MacKinnon, Ch. 15 (pp. 331-369)
Write: 2-3 page reflection paper (7): Review your Environmental
Ethics Paper from your freshman year. What would you affirm that you
originally wrote? What would you change? How do you assess your
development over the past years? If you were not a freshman at MC, write a
brief statement of your current environmental ethic and reflect on ways
you think you have changed during your college career.
Read: Giardina, 448-487
Prepare for Quiz IV on Giardina |
| Wednesday,
January 25 |
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Lecture (Guest): Environmental Ethics - Meet
in Wilson Chapel at 9:00-10:30
Quiz IV on Giardina (386-487)
Discuss: Giardina
Discuss: Environmental Ethics |
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Assignments |
Read: MacKinnon,
Ch. 18 (pp. 430-453)
Write: 1-2 page response to material on Violence, Terrorism, and
War (8): Reflecting
on ideas developed in this chapter, respond to the question: Was the
United States just in attacking Iraq in the Spring of 2003? Why or why
not? Make sure you consider ideas that oppose your conclusion as well as
those that support it. |
| Thursday,
January 26 |
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Discuss:
Violence,
Terrorism, and War
Film: "Hotel Rwanda" |
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Assignments |
Write: Final essay due in person at
beginning of class on Friday 1/27 |
| Friday,
January 27 |
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Papers
Due
Discuss:
Vocation and “Hotel Rwanda”
Assessment Survey
Discuss: Newspaper articles: select an article from papers provided
and do an ethical analysis of the article.
Evaluation and final issues |
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