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ETHICS: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
Intro Readings:
- Ethics Intro – Questions-Topics-Myth of Gyges
- Seductive Propaganda- Science and Ethics
- Ethics -Lifeboat -William Brown
- The Right Thing To Do – Rachels
- Quotes On Religion
Other Readings:
- BOOK OF QUESTIONS
- Confessions of a Former Cultural Relativist (Bagish)-> Remember This One?!
- Plato: The Ring of Gyges
- 25 Ethical Dilemmas (Scroll down to list)
- 28 Moral Dilemma Questions
- 10 Biggest Moral Issues in Science
- Notre Dame President Faces Backlash for Pandemic Behaviors (CNN)
- Ethics Unwrapped Blog
- Ethics Theory (in a Healthcare Perspective)
- Can Prayers Heal? Critics Say Studies Go Beyond Reach of Science (NYT)
- Transcending God – Christopher Hitchens Interview (Atlantic 2007)
- Jefferson & Religious Freedom (Atlantic)
- Reading Thomas Jefferson’s Bible (Atlantic)
- My Daughter’s Friends Aren’t Allowed to Play With Her Now That I’m a Single Dad (Atlantic)
- Zoom Refuses to Stream University Event Featuring Member of Terrorist Group
- What Does Brain Research Say About Executing a Man for a Crime Committed at 19?(CNN)
- Cancel Netflix Controversy with CUTIES film
- Supreme Court Relieves Religious Organizations from Some Covid Restrictions (WaPo)
- Pre-Natal Testing & the Future of Down Syndrome (Atlantic)
- Catholic Priests Have Been Celibate for a Thousand Years, But That Could Change
- Did Joe Biden’s First Day Begin the End of Girls’ Sports? (WSJ)
- The Crime of Refusing Vaccination: Our Rights & Our Body v. Duty to Others (Atlantic)
- She Used Drugs While Pregnant; Should Stillbirth Put Her In Prison? (The Cut)
- Pope’s Comments Regarding Having Children (Opinion USA Today)
- Surgeons Attach Pig Kidney to Humans- A Transplant First (NYT)
Viewings:
- CRASH COURSE PHILOSOPHY -YouTube (Always a good place to start!)
- INTRO -MetaEthics (:10 mins)
- ALL 7 Videos with Major Theories – #32 thru #38 (All about :10 mins)
- Moral Luck #39
- What is Justice? #40
- Discrimination #41
- Non-Human Animals #42
- Family Obligations #43
- Poverty & Our Response to It #44
- Assisted Death & Our Value of Life #45
- What is a Good Life? #46
- MOTHER-FORKIN’ MORALS – The Good Place w/Dr. Todd May(YouTube :5 mins each)
- Part 1: Existentialism
- Part 2: Utilitarianism
- Part 3: Psychological Egoism
- Part 4: Kant – Deontology
- And A Bit More of The Good Place: “Being a Good Person in a Bad Place” (:30 mins ** SPOILER ALERTS IN THIS ONE!**
- The Prisoner’s Dilemma – Rational Choice Theory (YouTube :10 mins)
- Bullies & Burgers!
- What Would You Do?
- Pascal’s Wager – based on math (Youtube :6 mins)
- Ethics in America (Series 1)
- Ethics in America (Series 2)
- Genetic Screening: Controlling Heredity (American Experience Digital Short (:12 mins)
- The Biotech Revolution & Ethics (:9 mins)
- Ricky Gervais & Stephen Colbert Chat Atheism, Religion, Science (:5 mins)
- Science Can Answer Moral Questions (TEDtalk Sam Harris :20 mins)
- “Best of Sam Harris” (YouTube :20 mins)
- Array of Christopher Hitchens
- Pascal’s Wager
- Hitchens’s “Ten Commandments”
- On Christianity Morality & Ethics
- Better Off Without Religion
- Immorality of Faith Mentality
AESTHETICS: What is Beautiful?
Readings:
- Value Judgements as Knowledge-Aesthetics
- Aesthetics Questions
- Art In a Petri-Dish (2020 Agar Awards)
- Art or Pornography- Baby Bottoms
- Baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind Album Cover Sues for Child Sexploitation (The Guardian)
- No Reasonable Person Would Consider Nevermind Cover Child [Exploitation] (Rolling Stone)
- Grown Up Baby From Nevermind is Suing, A Lesson For Today’s Parents (WaPo)
- Life on the Mississippi – Science & Aesthetics
- Sinfonia: A Legitimate Musical Instrument? (NPR)
- How Fraudsters Dupe the Art World (Verge)
- How a Medusa Sculpture From a Decade Ago Became #MeToo Art (NYT)
- How Beauty is Making Scientists Re-Think Evolution (NYT Extended Article, but worth it just for the pretty pics!)
- Why Is It OK To Be Mean To The Ugly? (NYT)
- Aesthetic Consumerism & The Violence of Photography- Susan Sontag on Visual Culture & The Social Web (BrainPickings)
Viewings:
- Is It Art? (Hopper-“The Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money” Video :2 mins)
- Ode to a Flower (Richard Feynman :2 mins)
- Aesthetics Appreciation: Crash Course Philosophy #30 (YouTube :10 mins)
- Aesthetics: Crash Course Philosophy #31 (YouTube :10 mins)
- What Makes Something Beautiful? (Vox :2 mins)
- Beauty Standards Around the World (:2 mins)
- What is Beauty? Our Perceptions of Women’s Beauty Has Changed Over Time (:3 mins)
- The Wooing BowerBird (NatGeo :2 mins)
- What Is Aesthetics? (Study.com :6 mins)
- My Kid Could Paint That (Official Trailer YouTube)
- Marla Olmstead follow up
- Her Gallery
- Does Symmetry Cause Us to Mate? (:5 mins)
Interactives:
- Chasing Beauty: Aesthetics, Society & Science (An Exceptional Quick-Hit, Mini-Course in Aesthetics – Read, View, Interact to the end!
- Beauty or Pornography? The Human Form: ESPN The Body Issues vs. Robert Mapplethorpe (And A Brief History of Representing the Body in Western Painting)
OUR FINAL PROJECT: THE GLOBAL GALLERY
