Must Meet Deadlines for Any Credit-
No late work will be accepted
Required Texts:
The Fundamentals of Ethics by Russ Shafer Landau
(3
rd
ed,
others ok)
Food Politics by Robert Paarlberg
(2
nd
edition)
APA The Easy Way by Peggy Houghton & Timothy
Houghton
(2
nd
edition)
Review PowerPoint’s & Articles:
Blackboard
Read Ahead and view Bb Powerpoints
to help with writing future discussions
and papers. Any ethical theories can be used throughout your discussions and
papers. You are not limited to the weekly readings in your papers and 1
st
discussion. However, your book discussions are directly related to your weekly
readings.
Review Examples and Rubric tabs
to help you maximize points for each
discussion. The point of each discussion is to
APPLY
ethical theory, not discuss
the topic of GMO’s, water rights, etc.
Your quotes MUST be on ethical
theories
, NOT the agricultural topic being analyzed.
Course Schedule:
Every week, you will be assigned reading in the textbooks, Powerpoint to review
and video clip(s) to watch (or combination thereof). Every Saturday, your 1
st
discussion is due and every Sunday, your 2
nd
discussion is due. You MUST submit
your assignments on-time in the Discussion Drop Box through turnitin.com.
Similarly, your papers are also submitted through turnitin.com on the Paper Drop
Box.
Continued……
WEEK 1 (1/3/17-1/8/17)
All your weekly discussions need to bring in ethical theory while discussing the
video and/or book. The main point is to apply ethical theories
, NOT merely discuss
the agricultural topic. This first week, you are completing 2 book discussions and
NO video discussions.
Read:
Shafer-Landau book Chapters 1-4
What is Ethics.pdf (Course Documents, Week1)
Powerpoint in Bb- 1a and 2a (Course Documents, Week1)
(Note: Paper #1 topic is on the last slide on 1a)
Paper #1 Issue Worksheet (due next week on 1/12)
DUE: JANUARY 7
th
by 7:00pm post on Discussion Drop Box
Book #1 Discussion (You may pick 1 or as many as you like, follow RUBRIC):
Explain the difference between intrinsicvalue and instrumentalvalue, and give examples of things you take to be valuable in each way. Next, define hedonism. What does the hedonist claim is intrinsically valuable, and what does she claim is instrumentally valuable? Hedonists distinguish between two types of pleasure. Explain this distinction and give examples of each type of pleasure. Which type of pleasure do hedonists claim is more important? Why do you think they say this? Do you agree with this claim?Suppose you had the opportunity to have someone else make all of your decisions for you for the rest of your life. Suppose further that this person knows you so incredibly well that her decisions are guaranteed to make youhappier in the long term than you would be if you made your own decisions.Would you accept such an arrangement? Why or why not? What does this case tell us about the plausibility of hedonism? Suppose that you want something very much but that when you get it, you are completely disappointed. Why does this case raise a problem for the desire satisfaction theory? What might a desire satisfaction theorist say in
