Unit 9 (Cognitive Psychology and Moral Growth) Assignment

Discussion Blog: First 3 students, give an example from your own experience of

accommodation/assimilation/equilibration; second 3 students, give an example from your

own experience of a person acting as a Stage 2 egocentric; last 4 or so students, give an

example from your own experience of a person acting as Stage 3/Stage 4 cooperation

(distinguish whether it’s incipient or genuine cooperation).

Unit 7 (SMA, Step IV) Assignment

Discussion Blog: Choose one case from the “Ethics Bowl Cases 2004”, do Step IV of the

SMA, build on the previous work on this case.

Unit 7 (SMA, Steps II and III) Assignment

Discussion Blog— first 5 students, choose one case from the “Ethics Bowl Cases 2004”,

do Step II of the SMA, build on the previous work on this case (see last week’s

Discussion Blog); second 5 or so students, choose one case from the previous 5 students

(from “Ethics Bowl Cases 2004”), do Step III of the SMA, build on the previous work on

this case (see last week’s Discussion Blog and the previous posts for this week).

Unit 7 (Systematic Moral Analysis, Step I) Assignment

Discussion Blog— Choose one case from the “Ethics Bowl Cases 2004”. For this case,

do Step I of the SMA, “What’s the problem?” Do not choose a case that has already been

posted by another student.

Unit 6 (Ethics in the Workplace and Role-related Responsibilities) Assignment

Discussion Blog—for all of these assignments, refer to your profession’s code of ethics

and emphasize elements of your code that are morally required and/or conventional: 1st 5

students, list 5 role related responsibilities for your profession that the public can

reasonably expect of you; 2nd 5 or so students, list 5 role related responsibilities that

colleagues/coworkers can reasonably expect of you.

Unit 5 (Professions & Professional Ethics in America) Assignment

Discussion Blog: 1st 5 students, using Ritchie as a guide, apply the ten criteria to evaluate your profession;  2nd 5 or so students, using Davis as a guide, explain how understanding a code of ethics as a convention can be useful in your profession.

Unit 4 (Deontology-part three) Assignment

Discussion Blog: 1st 3 students, why is freedom of the will so essential to Kant’s moral

philosophy?; 2nd 3 students, how could you, as an individual, help bring about Kant’s

“kingdom of ends”?; last 4 or so students, what sort of social/economic conditions would

need to exist in order for there to be a “kingdom of ends”?