Dr Tom Kerns
North Seattle Community College

 

Assignment for week two

Read:

• Erskine Caldwell’s short story, Saturday Afternoon (available in the classroom)
• Relativism/Essentialism lecture

Write:

• Explain in your own words what you understand ethical relativism and ethical essentialism to be, and which of them you are personally more inclined toward
• Discuss these two definitions in the Class Discussion folder and see if you can identify which of the two ideas, ethical relativism or ethical essentialism, most suits your own beliefs. Please provide reasons for why you lean toward that particular belief.

This discussion should begin on Thursday or Friday and be finished by Sunday

• On Sunday you'll begin discussing Belkin's book in the Class Discussion folder

Read:

• Lisa Belkin, First Do No Harm (entire)

Write:

• SQs for Belkin to be posted in SQs folder
• DQs for Belkin to be posted and discussed in the Class Discussion folder

You’ll probably want to start reading this book right away so that a discussion of it can start by Sunday and be concluded by Wednesday evening at 10pm. Please remember: it is not necessary to have completed your reading of the book before you post your first thoughts or questions about it.