Grade Update

Hi all,

Here's a link to a new grade update form. As always, it's in sets of 3; pages 1-3 are your overall course grades, the next set is term paper grades, then exams, the forums, etc. You still have one term paper (the one you're working on now) and one exam (the one on Rawls during finals week) to complete, plus your final forum response. Some of you have completed your forum response-to-a-colleague, but I didn't record your grade, yet, to avoid falsely inflating your average.

Let me know if you think there are mistakes - with this much data entry it's always likely that there will be some errors. Much easier to fix now than after grades are turned in!

Philosophy 110 Grade Update 11-23

Reading for December 2-9

Here's a link to the PDF of your next reading: Rawls Reading Dec. 2-9

Let me know if you have questions.

Forum 4: Salaam Bombay

Assignment
Spend at least 20 minutes thinking about the question below, and write a substantive response to post in comments.

Your response to the question is due by Sunday morning at 8 a.m.; respond to a colleague by Tuesday morning at 8 a.m.

A good response will be at the very least 1/2 a page, double-spaced in a word processing program.

In your response to your colleague, try to drive the conversation forward in some way. Press the person (politely) on their response; ask a question to try to examine the idea; disagree (politely); examine the premises the person is relying on - that is, try to add to the original post with your response. Don't just say you agree with the person.

Question
*UPDATE*

Let's ignore the question of responsibility for the time being, as it's distracting from the second question: if you think the situation is unjust, why? If not, why not?

Address all of the questions below:

The people depicted in this film lived in circumstances that made human flourishing extremely difficult if not impossible. Do you think it's just (that is, does it reflect justice) that they're more or less trapped in these circumstances? If so, why? If not, why not? Who's responsibility is it to try to improve the circumstances of the desperately poor?

Term Paper 2: Utilitarianism

Here's a link to the second term paper assignment. You won't be able to complete the paper until we've covered On Liberty in class - I'm just posting this early in case it will help you to have the paper in mind while we go over the material.

The term paper is due November 30.

Term Paper 2: Utilitarianism.

The Texas statute is Texas False Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act, Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. §§ 96.001-.004

Grade Update

Here's the link to your grade update. Philosophy 110 Grades

If you're missing a grade and you know you completed the assignment, or if I typed a grade in wrong, let me know.

Have a great weekend!