Gonzaga College High School
Introduction to Catholic Ethics
Homework Calendar
Day/Date
Topic
Assembly Schedule
08/26/09-Wed.
Reading
0:0 Preliminary Comments:
0:1 Overview of the Syllabus
0:2 Course Expectation
0:3 A Methodological Note
0:4 Summer Reading Test-The Alchemist
(TEST-I)
Day 1-Thurs.
08/27/09
1:0 What is Ethics?
1 :1 The Scope of Ethics
1:2 Normative Ethics:
a) General Normative Ethics
b) Practical/Applied Ethics
c) Theoretical Ethics
1:3 Non-normative Ethics
a) Descriptive Ethics
b) Meta-ethics
1:4 a)The Common Morality as Universal
Morality
b) The Nature of the Common Morality
1:5-a) Particular Moralities as Non-universal
b) The Nature of Particular Moralities
2:0 Framework of Moral Norms
2:1 Some Basic Principles of Moral Norms
a) Respect for autonomy
b) Nonmaleficence
c) Beneficence
d) Justice
2:2 Rules:
a) Substantive Rules
b) Authority Rules
c) -Rules of Surrogate Authority
d) -Rules of professional Authority
e) -Distributional Authority
f) Procedural Rules
3:0 Parable of the Sadhu
3:1What is Good?
3:2 What is the Good and why?
4:0 What is Relativism?
4:1 Moral Diversity and Moral Disagreementa) Factual disagreement
b) Disagreement resulting from
insufficient evidence/information
c) Disagreement about which norms are
appropriate
d) Disagreement about the relative
weights or rankings of the relevant
Day 2-Friday
08/28/09
Day 3-Mon.
08/30/09
Day 4-Tues.
09/01/09
Day 5-Wed.
09/02/09
Day 6-Thurs.
09/03/09
Day-7-Friday
09/04/09
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Written Assignment/s
Introductory Exercise (p5)
p4
Handout: Parable of the
Sadhu
LN
3-5
What is Good?
LN
LN
LN
Parable of the Sadhu is due
today-
LN
#1- (6)
pp.9-12
Lecture Notes
LN
Debate on Relativism
Gonzaga College High School
Introduction to Catholic Ethics
09/07/09
norms
Disagreement about appropriate forms
of specification
f) The presence of genuine moral
dilemma
g) Scope of disagreement about who
should be protected by a moral norm
h) Conceptual disagreement
Labor Day-No Classes
Day 8-Tues.
09/08/09
Day 1-Wed.
09/09/09
4: 2 Why is relativism a threat to Ethics?
4:3 Why relativism is Wrong and Unappealing
4:4 Cultural Relativism
Lecture Notes
pp.16-18
Test-II
#1-4 (p19) is due today
Day 2-Thur.
09/10/09
5:0 Introduction to Plato and Aristotle
5:1 Teleology and the Nature of Man
Lecture Notes
pp.23-24
THESIS-I
Delayed Opening-Fri
09/11/09
5:2 Types of Ends:
a) Instrumental
b) Intrinsic
5:3 The Function and Nature of Man
5:4 The Telos of Human Life
Lecture notes
and excerpts
from the
Nicomachean
Ethics -pp2427
Day 3-Mon
09/14/09
5:5 Character Types
5:6 Formation of Virtues and Character
5:7 The Four Character Types
Day 4-Tues
09/15/09
Ibid
5:8 Virtue: The Golden Mean
pp.33-38
# 1-10 (p44)
Day 5-Wed.
09/16/09
Day6-Thur.
09/17/09
Day 7-Fri
09/18/09
5:9 Aristotle's Ethics and Christianity
*Review for Test
6: 0 Immanuel Kant: Introduction
6:1 Kantian Ethics and Aristotelian Ethics
*Interims Due
6:2 The Foundations of Morality
6:3 A goodwill is the Basis of Morality
6:4 What makes a Will Good?
6:5 *Making moral decisions
6:6 Good will and the Motive of Duty:
a) Inclination
b) Self-interest
c) Duty
6:7 Motives and Types of Imperatives:
a) Technical
b) Prudential
c) Moral
6:8 Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives
pp.38-42
TEST-III
e)
Day 8-Mon
09/21/09
Day 1-Tue.
09/22/09
Day 2-Wed.
09/23/09
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Ibid
pp.27-33
pp.46-49
pp.49-52
Questions 1-5 (p60)
Lecture Notes
Lecture Notes
Lecture Notes
Quiz
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Introduction to Catholic Ethics
Day 3-Thu.
09/24/09
Ibid
6:9 The Formula of the Universal Law
6:10 The Formula of the end in itself
6:11 Kantian Ethics and Christianity
Assembly ScheduleFri
09/25/09
Day 4-Mon
09/28/09
Day 5-Tue.
09/29/09
Day 6-Wed.
09/30/09
Day 7-Thur.
10/01/10
Day 8-Fri.
10/02/10
pp.57-60
Debate-
7:0 Utilitarianism: An introductory Lecture
7:1 The Principle of Utility
pp.62-63
#1-5(p70)
7:2 Hedonism
7:3 The View Point of "a disinterested and
Benevolent Spectator"
7:4 Hedonism and the Pleasure-Pain Calculus
7:5 Utilitarianism and Kant
7:6 Sanctions-Types
8:0 Rights and Ethics -Introduction
8:1 John Locke's Theory of Natural Rights
pp.64-65
TEST-III
8:2 Tom Regan's Theory of Rights
8:3 John Rawls' Theory of Rights
a) 1st and 2nd Principles
b) The Principles of fairness-Justice as
Fairness
8:4 a Rights and Catholic Christianity:
8:4b Excerpts from Pacem in Terris
8:5 Catholic Christianity's disagreement with the
Theory of Rights
9:0 Soren Kierkegaard-The Stages On Life's
Way
a) The Aesthetic Stage
b) The Ethical Stage
c) The Religious Stage
d) The Kenotic Stage?
Day 1 Mon
10/05/10
Day 2-Tue.
10/06/10
Day 3-Wed.
10/07/10
pp.66-70
MovieExtreme
Measures
pp.72-75
pp.75-80
Any five questions-pp85-86
pp.80-82
pp.82-84
Day 4-Thur.
10/08/10
Day 5-Fri.
10/09/10
TESTTHESIS-II
Columbus Day-No
Classes
10/12/10
Day 6-Tue.
10/13/10
PSAT/NMSQ
TESTING DAY3
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Introduction to Catholic Ethics
10/08
Day 7-Thur.
10/15/10
Day 8-Fri.
10/16/10
*End of First Quarter
Assembly Schedule
10/19/10.
* Grades Due
Lecture Notes
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