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Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not): Ethics in Your Life
Provides an opportunity to explore a wide range of ethical issues through guided discussions that are geared to equip students for ongoing reflection and action. Lectures and discussions with guest faculty, as well as attendance at on-and off-campus events, expose students to ethical problems and resources for addressing them. Encourages students to work collaboratively as they clarify their personal and vocational principles. Topics vary each term and will reflect the interests of those enrolled.
Spring 2015 · Ethics in Your Life: Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not?)
Topics
- Punishment, Deterrence, Prisons
- Final Presentations
- Final Presentations (cont.)
Readings
- Midgely, Mary. “Trying Out One’s New Sword.” In Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues . 3rd ed. Edited by Louis Vaughn. W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. ISBN: 9780393919288.
- Transcripts of the discussions in the film “Examined Life” can be found in:
- Menninger, Karl. “The Crime of Punishment.” In Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy . 9th ed. Edited by Joel Feinberg. Wadsworth, Inc., 1996.
- Lewis, C. S. “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment.” In Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy . 9th ed. Edited by Joel Feinberg. Wadsworth, Inc., 1996.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None U (Spring) 2-0-4 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2015
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.