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Final (!) homework assignment 10 Dec 2008 | 01:54 pm
Here’s your final homework assignment for the course: Blog: You are wide open on this one, but here are a couple of ideas: Are Aristotle and Nietzsche right when they say that morality is a quality ...
In the blogs, 12/9/08 10 Dec 2008 | 04:24 am
In the blogs today, December 9, 2008: At 4:30, Gordon imagines a spectrum of killing, with its own virtues and vices. Lance says that one should consider the states of character that are associated...
Homework for 12/9 7 Dec 2008 | 02:21 am
Here’s your homework for Tuesday, December 9: Blog: Give an Aristotelean account for the moral worth of murder. Remember, this is perhaps a little trickier than it sounds, since Aristotle is focused ...
Class cancelled for Tuesday, Dec 2 3 Dec 2008 | 06:18 am
Hi everybody. I’m feeling pretty sick and so I’m canceling class for tonight. Here’s what this means: Extra credit assignments, should you wish to complete them (the details are in a previous blog po...
Homework for 12/2 27 Nov 2008 | 05:46 am
No new homework. Make sure to read Aristotle’s Book II very closely, though. In class on Tuesday we’ll be talking in depth about how Aristotle defines virtue.
Extra credit opportunity 26 Nov 2008 | 09:51 am
A few of you have shown interest in earning extra credit. Click here to download the details.
Homework for 11/25 23 Nov 2008 | 07:31 am
Here’s your homework for Tuesday, November 25: Blog about the question of who, precisely, is a party to the social contract. Can we rightfully say that the sovereign has made an agreement to give up ...
Writing assignment 2 21 Nov 2008 | 12:15 pm
Just so no one will accuse me of making the writing assignment difficult to find… Written Assignment 2 Click the above link for a PDF version of the second and final writing assignment for the cours...
In the blogs, 11/20/2008 21 Nov 2008 | 05:56 am
In the blogs today, November 20, 2008: At 4:30: Hannah says that the government should be more subject to moral rules than everyone else, not less Tori defends Hobbes’s logic, and offers a sense in...
Homework for 11/20 20 Nov 2008 | 07:08 am
Here’s your homework for this Thursday, November 20: Blog about the connection that Hobbes posits between morality and government. What’s the connection? Are governments/sovereigns subject to moral j...
