Last updated Nov 20, 2009
For class #42, Mon Nov 23
Read-read MacKinnon’s chapter on Virtue Ethics.
Agenda for this class: I will introduce ENM chapter 9–“Ethics and Suffering.” I hope to have a class discussion about ENM and Virtue Ethics.
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Assignments:
For class #41, Fri Nov 20
Read-read MacKinnon’s chapter on Virtue Ethics.
Agenda for this class: I will show a video on Virtue Ethics. Then we will discuss the connections between Virtue Ethics and ENM (Ethics for the New Millennium).
For class #40, Wed Nov 18
Read ENM chapter 7 – “The Ethics of Virtue.”
Agenda for this class: I will introduce ENM chapter 7–“The Ethics of Virtue.” I may also introduce ENM chapter 8–“The Ethic of Compassion.”
For class #39, Mon Nov 16
We now begin ENM Part II.
Read ENM chapter 6 – “The Ethics of Restraint.”
Agenda for this class: I will introduce ENM chapter 6 – “The Ethics of Restraint.”
For class #38, Fri Nov 14
No class – Veterans
Day observance
For class #37, Wed Nov 11
No class – CSM Flex
Day
For class #36, Mon Nov 9
Take Quiz #3 before it
becomes unavailable Thursday at 10:00 pm. (You will be allowed to take Quiz #3 twice!! You do not have to take it a
second time.)
Agenda for this
class: Either we will discuss “how
we could overcome the problem that parents will object to teaching virtues in
elementary schools,” or I will begin introducing ENM Part II.
For class #35, Fri Nov 6
Take Quiz #3 before it
becomes unavailable Thursday at 10:00 pm. (You will be allowed to take Quiz #3
twice!! You do not have to take it a second time.)
Agenda for this
class: Either we will discuss “how
we could overcome the problem that parents will object to teaching virtues in
elementary schools,” or I will begin introducing ENM Part II.
For class #34, Wed Nov 4
Take Quiz #3 before it
becomes unavailable Thursday evening.
Agenda for this
class: I will continue to review
ENM Part I, and MacKinnon chapter 7 for Quiz #3.
For class #33, Mon Nov 2
Quiz #3 will starts today on
ENM Part I, and MacKinnon chapter 7.
Study ENM Part I and
MacKinnon chapter 7 (Virtue Ethics) including the article by Aristotle called
Nichomachean Ethics. When you’re
ready, take Quiz #3.
Agenda for this
class: I will review ENM
Part I, and MacKinnon chapter 7 for Quiz #3.
For class #32, Fri Oct 30
Quiz #3 will be available
starting Monday, on ENM Part I, and MacKinnon chapter 7.
Read ENM chapter 5
(The Supreme Emotion), and MacKinnon chapter 7 (Virtue Ethics), including the
article by Aristotle called Nichomachean Ethics.
Agenda for this
class: I will review ENM
chapter 5, and MacKinnon chapter 7.
For class #31, Wed Oct 28
Quiz #3 will be available
Nov 2-5. It will cover ENM Part I
and MacKinnon chapter 7.
For Wednesday, read
ENM chapters 3 & 4.
For Friday, read ENM
chapter 5.
For Monday, read
MacKinnon chapter 7, including the article by Aristotle.
Agenda for this
class: I will introduce ENM
chapter 5, and MacKinnon chapter 7.
On Friday I will review ENM chapter 5 and MacKinnon chapter 7.
For class #30, Mon Oct 26
Quiz #3 is postponed 1 week
(Nov 2-5).
Read chapters 2
& 3 of the Dalai Lama’s book Ethics for the New Millennium (ENM).
Agenda for this
class: I will introduce chapters 3 & 4 ENM.
For class #29, Fri Oct 23
Read the introduction and chapter
1 of the Dalai Lama’s book Ethics for the New Millennium (ENM). (A copy is reserved for a 2-hour
loan for PHIL 244 AA students in the CSM Library.)
Agenda for this class: I will continue introducing the Dalai Lama’s book, Ethics for the New Millennium (ENM.
For class #28, Wed Oct 21
Read MacKinnon 8 on
Abortion, including the articles at the back of the chapter. (Notice how the arguments focus a lot
on Natural Rights and Utilitarianism.)
Agenda for this class: I will introduce the Dalai Lama’s book, Ethics for the New Millennium (ENM) and I will introduce MacKinnon chapter 7 - Virtue Ethics.
For class #27, Mon Oct 19
Look at the chapter titles in MacKinnon part II. I’d like to know which issues you’d like
the class to handle. Buy the Dalai
Lama’s book, Ethics for the New Millennium.
Agenda for this class: We’ll make some plans for the second half of the course.
For class #26, Fri Oct 16
Look at the chapter titles in MacKinnon part II. I’d like to know which issues you’d
like the class to handle. Buy the
Dalai Lama’s book, Ethics for the New Millennium.
Agenda for this class: We’ll make some plans for the second half of the course.