Welcome to Week 2!

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  1. Hi, everyone.
  2. Welcome to Week two.
  3. I thought I would drop in my lovely home office
  4. with the incredible wallpaper and share with you a little
  5. bit about what we're going to do this week.
  6. Last week we talked about what morality is and how
  7. we define that, and this week we're going to carry
  8. on with what it means to develop a moral reason.
  9. And we do that in philosophy by arguments.
  10. Arguments don't mean fighting.
  11. It means that you have carefully considered an issue and
  12. we'll talk about lots of issues later in the course,
  13. and within that you have reasons for committing to one
  14. side or the other reasons they're not just opinions.
  15. Reasons are an informed understanding of the issue and of
  16. the consequences and all the other implications of holding the
  17. belief that you have.
  18. So you have a few assignments this week that will
  19. walk you through how to recognize an argument, both a
  20. good argument and a bad argument.
  21. Bad arguments are what we call fallacies, and you'll read
  22. about that towards the end of Chapter two.
  23. So first off, there's no discussion board this week, so
  24. I will let you know when we're doing is we're
  25. doing those every week, said you got that to one
  26. quiz. This one is based on the samples at the
  27. end of Chapter two, and all you have to do
  28. is put the argument in terms of P's and Q's.
  29. Your book goes through how to do that.
  30. So read over that.
  31. If you have questions about it, please let me know.
  32. It can be a little tricky at first if you
  33. haven't done this before.
  34. I think of P's and Q's as any declarative sentence.
  35. And what you are doing is breaking up the argument
  36. into, you know, suppose it's a and if then statement
  37. to if bubble bubble book that's your P, then Lumina.
  38. That's your cue, and then you have your conclusion.
  39. So what we're trying to do is organize the argument
  40. into a rigorous error free statement argument the called Scylla,
  41. Chism's and Classical Letter, and you want this to be
  42. something that you can present to someone else.
  43. And even if they don't agree with you, your logic
  44. is flawless.
  45. What happens when your logic is flawed?
  46. That's when you run into a fallacy.
  47. So there's a few questions on this assignment that will
  48. ask you just to identify the fallacy.
  49. These Onley come from the fallacies that air in your
  50. book. So don't feel like you have to do any
  51. other outside research.
  52. Just look at the ones that are in the chapter.
  53. There are a whole bunch of other ones the you
  54. would find if you started looking this up.
  55. I m I think that's all unchecked on this quiz.
  56. One more assignment, and I'm trying a new way of
  57. doing things this semester.
  58. Let me know what you think about It has to
  59. do with how your assignment will be grated.
  60. So this particular work, she is on your moral code
  61. and what you're gonna do for each question is you're
  62. gonna right a little scenario.
  63. The assignment instructions say to do this based on of
  64. work scenario.
  65. If you have something else in mind that's totally fine,
  66. create a little scenario.
  67. Tell me what you would do, benefits of doing that
  68. and then the consequences if you were to do the
  69. opposite. So what you're doing is looking at any ethical
  70. or any sort of given scenario and looking at the
  71. ethical questions behind that, So I give you an example.
  72. One. And it has to do with cheating and you'll
  73. you'll look at what?
  74. Here's what happened.
  75. Here's what I did and here's what could have happened
  76. if I had done something else.
  77. So for this assignment, there are nine scenarios that you
  78. can write with different ethical things, but your grade will
  79. be based on how many you complete.
  80. If you do three, you get a C.
  81. If you do six, you're gonna get a B.
  82. And if you do all nine, you'll get in a
  83. do note that this is doing them completely.
  84. So each scenario has four parts.
  85. The scenario.
  86. Writing up a little short context.
  87. The thing that you chose to do what what did
  88. you do?
  89. The consequences of what you did and are the benefits
  90. and then the consequences of what would happen if you
  91. did something else.
  92. If you have any questions about this, let me know.
  93. We do have an optional zoom meeting this week.
  94. See the announcement on due to, and I'll send out
  95. a reminder these air not required.
  96. I know that people work and you have other things.
  97. If people do come to these meetings and something important
  98. is shared.
  99. Their it happens that needs to be shared.
  100. I will let you know.
  101. Don't worry to have great week and I will seizing.