Journals: In these, I will expect you to reflect critically on any current events that might be relevant to our subject matter, as well as your own views on topics in contemporary ethics.

Each entry should be between 200 and 1000 words.

In the journals you should explain your ethical opinion about any current topic, whether it is from your personal life or a topic being discussed by the media. For example, you could write about a disagreement you are having with someone in your home life, or you could write about Donald Trump’s campaign style. In the journals I am mainly concerned with how thoughtfully you develop your own opinions. The topics you write about should match the topics we are reading about in the text book, as we progress through the class I would like you to use your new knowledge from the text book to help develop your opinions. For the first journal you submit I don’t expect you to refer to the text book (although you can if you want), and even in subsequent journals, again, the main focus is on your own opinions. The hope is that you will be able to see how your ethical opinions have evolved by the time you reach the later journal entries. As long as I can tell you took some time to carefully develop an ethical opinion about a current topic, you will get full credit.

Things we are currently reviewing:

Consequentialist Theories:

• Utilitarianism: defines the rightness or wrongness of an action in terms of the net good of all effects for everyone affected
• Ethical Egoism: only looks at the effects for oneself

Nonconsequentialist Theories:

Kant’s Theory: actions are judged by testing them according to the categorical imperative. The categorical imperative checks for what the rational person can will without contradiction to be a universal law.

Natural Law Theory: checks an action against the rational order of the world (usually a world created by God)Divine Command Theory: checks an action against what God (or gods) command.

Required Text: Vaughn, Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues, 4th Edition

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