EGP is intended to offer students at Xavier an interactive, on-line
philosophy course using hypertext linkages and e-mail discussion.
Ethics is a philosophical discipline with a long tradition, and EGP has
two primary objectives:
To introduce you to this tradition. This will require reading, writing
about, and discussing with your colleagues and your professor the
ideas and arguments you will find in several assigned readings.
These texts have been chosen because they are central to the
formation and development of ethics.
To give you an opportunity to learn how to think analytically and
critically about and within this tradition by reading, writing and
communicating with others about the fundamental questions
animating and sustaining it.
To accomplish these objectives the syllabusincludes several Required Texts and exams
which take the form of specifically structured Writing Assignments.
To find out what your colleagues are thinking about those assignments and how they are
responding in written form, you should go the the where I post protocols of class
discussions, distillations of students' written work, which they send to me via email, and
my critical responses to that written work.
During the 1997-98 academic year members of the Course Portfolio Working Group
(CPWG) developed course portfolios for their courses. As a member of CPWG I
constructed a course portfolio for Ethics: General Principles. To peruse it, go to the page
and follow its links.
Disclaimer:
In accordance with Xavier University's Responsible Use Policy for information
technology, the reader is advised that the referring web page is unofficial and that I, not
Xavier University, am solely responsible for its contents. Hence, I speak for myself only.