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Instructions For this Symposium discussion

Must be at least 600 words

PHI208 SYMPOSIUM
As mentioned in the week 1 video, weeks 2, 3, and 4 will have a symposium discussion. The word "symposium" is
a Greek word that refers to a banquet held after a meal, an after-party of sorts that usually included drinking,
dancing, recitals, and engaging conversations on the topics of the day. The word also happens to be the title of
the classic text by Plato, whose work you read last week. As you can probably guess, that work features a group
of men who take the idea of engaging conversation to a whole new level and practically compete against one
another in a sport of wit and words.
For our purposes in this course, the symposium discussions will not involve dancing, recitals, or a banquet, but
they will provide food for thought on current ethical issues and direct application of the ethical theory discussed in
each of these weeks. It is impossible these days to turn on the news or log on to social media without
encountering a controversy that cries out for ethical discussion. For these symposiums, your instructor will choose
a topic of current ethical interest and any resources associated with it. Your task is to consider how the ethical
theory of the week might be used to examine, understand, or evaluate the issue

Thames, B. (2018). How should one live? An introduction to ethics and moral reasoning. Bridgepoint Education.

• Chapter 5: Virtue Ethics: Being a Good Person

  • Pleasure and Pain: Aristotle Versus Utilitarianism

  • The Situationist Critique

  • 1: Introduction

  • 2: What Is Virtue Ethics?

  • 3: Virtues and Moral Reasoning

  • 4: The Nicomachean Ethics

  • 5: Objections to Virtue Ethics

  • Conclusion and Summary

 Your task is to consider how virtue ethics applies to the controversy, dilemma, event, or scenario 

discuss together the ethical issues and questions that it raises, your own response to those, and whether that response aligns with a virtue ethics approach. The aim is to identify, evaluate, and discuss the moral reasoning involved in addressing the chosen issue.

watch this video all the way through, but that is a lot to ask, I know, so watch AT LEAST a 30 minute segment, or jump around and watch segments that together add up to about 30 minutes. There is an amazing amount of information to discuss here.

Professor Haidt is joined here by the acclaimed and controversial clinical psychologist, Jordan Peterson. Their interaction is quite wide-ranging and exciting. Let's see what we can make of this material in light of all that we have been discussing in our class so far

Be mindful that this week we have learned about Aristotle's Virtue Ethics - what is it that makes a human being a good human being. It seems to me that both professors Haidt and Peterson are addressing this issue throughout. Can you find examples of it? I am also interested in any applications you can make to any of the other theories we have discussed so far.

The Perilous State of the University: Jonathan Haidt & Jordan B PetersonLinks to an external site.