Ethical Foundations of the Just Society (Phi 102 with Prof. LaForge)

Professor Genevieve LaForge

Although we can't be together in the classroom we can read together. We will use this project to learn how to practice active reading. You will find throughout the text links to additional resources, questions, and various other annotations. We will work together to build a living text that is unique to our class discussion and the interest of our class.


The concepts covered here will provide us with the basic foundation for determining the rightness or wrongness of particular actions, motives, laws, etc. Furthermore, it will serve as the starting point for our group project where you and your group mates will apply the concepts discussed here and in class to a social justice issue.

Youngson, N. Ethics [Photograph] Retrieved from https://picpedia.org/chalkboard/e/ethics.html CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images


Raphael(Artist). (1509-1511). School of Athens. [Fresco]. Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. Retrieved https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:RaphaelSchoolof_Athens.jpg

How to use this project:

The idea is for us to closely read the posted texts together. As we cannot do this in person, each one of us will be contributing annotations that either offer explanations of concepts, examples, questions, or general comments.

What to look for:

  • Comments and questions posted by me
  • Links to external sources such as videos, news paper articles, or images
  • Annotations made by your classmates

Directions:

  • Specific assignments will be announced in our Zoom sessions and on Blackboard. Please be sure to check our Blackboard page regularly, especially the Announcements page.
  • You are to annotate within our assigned reading group.
    • Be sure to select our reading group when annotating otherwise your classmates and I will not be able to view your annotations. Also, if I can't view your work, sadly I can't give you credit
    • You can find the invite link to your assigned group and invite code on our Blackboard under the Syllabus page and on the syllabus itself.
  • Please make sure your user name is one that I can identify. I suggest using your first name and the initial of your last name when creating a user id.
    • As you are to do this work in your assigned group, only your classmates will be able to view your annotations. However, if you comment on the document in the public setting, everyone on the Internet will be able to view your comment.
    • As public comments are not neatly collected, I will not be able to give credit for comments made publicly.
    • If you accidentally make your comment public, you can go back and post your comment in the reading group for credit.
      • Please send me an email, if you realize that you made this mistake after the work was graded.

Class readings

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