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THE 5141 Ethics and Social Justice in the Age of Globalization Fall 2016, 3 credits Wed. 6:30 pm – 9:20 pm Keisuke Noda, Ph. D. [email protected] (845) 332 9443 Office Hours TBA

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course covers major approaches to normative ethics: utilitarianism (Bentham and John Stuart Mill), deontological ethics (Kant), and virtue ethics including Aristotelianism, biblical ethics, Confucianism, and Care ethics. The first half of the course examines each ethical theory in relation to moral and ethical dilemmas. The course examines the strength and weakness of each theory as well philosophical issues underlying moral discourses. The course reviews other ethical positions including relativism (individual and cultural), egoism, divine command ethics, and others. The second half of the course examines a range of social justice questions related to wealth and poverty, gender, race, the environment, human rights, religion, and others. Throughout the course, students will examine the intersection of religious beliefs and ethical reasoning. The course combines instructor presentations, in-class discussion and case-study work.

OUTCOMES

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. Articulate major ethical theories, and their strength and weakness. 2. Articulate how ethical theories are applied to specific moral dilemmas. 3. Articulate fundamental philosophical issues underlying ethical discourses. 4. Demonstrate critical thinking skills in salient social issues by articulating how one’s faith plays out in ethical reasoning on social issues.

REQUIREMENTS AND EVALUATION

1. Class participation (including in-class presentations and short writing assignments) 25 points 2. Midterm exam (take home exam) 20 points 3. Reflection paper #1 15 points 4. Reflection paper #2 15 points 5. Position paper 25 points

Students are expected to attend and to be engaged in all class sessions. Unexcused absences or persistent tardiness will result in a lower final grade. Students will volunteer or be assigned to make class presentations and/or present in-class pro/con arguments. Short writing assignments are given throughout the course. If students missed a class, they are required to review the class recording on Adobe and submit one page reflection on each class meeting.

The midterm exam is a take home exam. It will cover the ethical theories/positions covered in the first half of the course and their application.

Students are required to submit two reflection papers and one position paper according to guidelines distributed by the instructor. Late submission will be penalized. (see guidelines for writing assignments)

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Special Requirements for M.Div. students for final position paper.

M.Div. students are required to take a case from ministerial ethics issues. Two resources are on the Reserve at the Library. Students do not have to take a case from them.  Stivers, Laura A., Christine E. Gudorf, and James B. Martin-Schramm. Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012.  Trull, Joe E., and James E. Carter. Ministerial Ethics: Moral Formation for Church Leaders. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Academic, 2004.

Grades for the course will not be changed nor incompletes granted unless there are extenuating personal circumstances which made completion of course requirements impossible. Additional work submitted to improve grades after completion of the course will not be accepted.

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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Plagiarism is a form of dishonesty that occurs when a student passes off someone else's work as their own. This can range from failing to cite an author for ideas incorporated into a student's paper, to cutting and pasting paragraphs from different websites, to handing in a paper downloaded from the Internet. It also includes buying or submitting a paper written by a third party. All are considered forms of “plagiarism” and a violation of the Seminary’s academic integrity policy. The instructor has the option of having the student repeat or fail the assignment. In cases of serious or repeated violations, the instructor has the option of having the student fail the course or of reporting the student to the Vice President of Academic Affairs for disciplinary action. Possible disciplinary actions include probation, suspension or withdrawal.

TEXTS

Sandel, Michael. Justice: What Is the Right Thing to Do? NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-374-53250-5. $15.00

Wilkens, Steve. Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics: An Introduction to Theories of Right and Wrong. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011. ISBN: 978-0830839360. $15.32 Major ethical theories/positions are explained in a plain language from a Christian perspective.

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See also “Harvard University’s Justice with Michael Sandel” http://www.justiceharvard.org/

Books on Reserve:

Fedler, Kyle D. Exploring Christian Ethics: Biblical Foundations for Morality. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.

Hollinger, Dennis P. Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Academic, 2002.

Neusner, Jacob, and Bruce Chilton. The Ethics of Family Life: What Do We Owe One Another? Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001.

Sandel, Michael J. Justice: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. A collection of primary sources used for cases/issues in his text.

Stivers, Laura A., Christine E. Gudorf, and James B. Martin-Schramm. Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012.

Trull, Joe E., and James E. Carter. Ministerial Ethics: Moral Formation for Church Leaders. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Academic, 2004.

DVD on Reserve:

Achbar, Mark, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan. The Corporation. [New York]: Zeitgeist, 2004. Documentary film.

Alvarez, Kyle Patrick, et al. The Stanford prison experiment. 2015.

Cuomo, Chris. Basic Instincts 5 The Milgram Experiment Re-Visited. [New York]: ABC News Productions, 2007. Documentary film.

Ferguson, Charles H., et al. Inside job. Culver City, Calif: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2011.

Gibney, Alex, et al. Enron the smartest guys in the room. , Calif: Magnolia Home Entertainment, 2005. Documentary film.

Kornbluth, Jacob, Jennifer Chaiken, Sebastian Dungan, Robert B. Reich, Svetlana Cvetko, Dan Krauss, Marco D'Ambrosio, and Robert B. Reich. . 2014.

Online Resources on Debatable Issues:

ProCon.Org. http://www.procon.org/about-us.php International Debate Education Association (IDEA) http://www2.idebate.org/

COURSE OUTLINE

Course schedule may change. Additional handouts are given as a part of required readings.

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Date Topics/Slides Required readings. Bullets are handouts or web Notes sources 1. 8/24 Course overview 1. Contexts of Ethical Discourse 2. Landscape of Ethics: Questions and Approaches 2. 8/31 3. Three Approaches to Sandel Ch. 1. Doing the Right Thing. Justice 4. Utilitarianism: Sandel Ch. 2. Greatest Happiness Principle greatest happiness Wilkens, 6. The Greatest HappinessDubner, principle Unintended Consequences. (Handouts) 3. 9/7 5. Libertarianism: on Sandel Ch. 3 Do We Own Ourselves?Park Avenue: freedom Power, Money, and American Dream (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6niWzomA_So 6. Ethics and market Sandel Ch. 4 Hired Help. 4. 9/14 7. Kantian ethics Sandel Ch. 5 What Matters is the Motive. Wilkens, 7. It’s Your Duty 8. John Rawls: on Sandel Ch. 6 The Case for Equality. justice 9. Social Contract Theory: Locke, Hobbes. 5. 9/21 10. Moral limit of contract 11. Natural law Wilkens, 11. Doing What Goes Naturally (Aquinas) 6. 9/28 12.Affirmative Action Sandel Ch. 7 Argument for Affirmative Action 13. Aristotelian Sandel Ch. 8 Who Deserves What? approach (virtue ethics) 7. 10/5 14. Care Ethics and Wilkens, 8. Be Good. The first Confucianism (virtue Nel Noddings: care ethics. (Handouts) reflection ethics) paper due

15. Conflicts of virtues Sandel, Ch. 9. What Do We Owe One Another? 8. 10/12 Review of Normative Sandel, Ch. 10. Justice and Common Good Midterm Ethics course evaluation 16. Postmodern Wilkens, 3. Look Out for Number One Conditions Ayn Rand, Virtue of Selfishness (Handouts) 17. Egoism: Ayn Rand 9. 10/19 18. Cultural Relativism Wilkens, 2. When In Rome, Do as the Romans Do. and Subjective Ruth Benedict “Anthropology and Abnormal” Relativism (Handouts) 19. Divine Command Wilkens, 12. God Said It, Believe It, That Settles It. Ethics

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20. Ethics and Who's Afraid of Machiavelli imagine Winter BBC Questions of Human Documentary Nature: Machiavelli Machiavelli, The Prince. (Handouts). 10. 10/26 21. Good and Evil: Stanford Prison Experiment (read history, Midterm Dispositional or background on the site) Exam due. Environmental? http://www.prisonexp.org/ Stanford Prison Rigney, Mathew Effect. (Handouts) Experiments (Phillip Zimbardo) 22. Authority, Metro Atlanta school cheating (Handouts) Conformity, and Metro Atl. GA Governor Office(Handouts) Conscience. The Third Wave (Handouts) Milgram Experiment Plato, Gyges Ring. Republic II. (2.359a-2.360d) (Stanley Milgram) (Handouts) Gyges’ Ring (Plato) 11. 11/2 23. Birth and Death Human Life: Beginnings and Endings (Handouts) The second Euthanasia; assisted Capital punishment (Handouts) reflection suicide; stem cell paper due research; abortion; genetic engineering. 24. Capital Punishment. The cost and death penalty; rehabilitation on the death raw. 25. Family, Marriage, Marriage, the family, and sexuality. (Handouts) and Sex. Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? ProCon.Org The same sex http://gaymarriage.procon.org/ marriage; polygamy; prostitution; sex outside of marriage. 12. 11/9 26. Rights and Personal Freedom (Handouts) Freedom. Prostitution and feminism; gambling; cheating; drugs 27. Freedom of Freedom of Expression (Handouts) Expression. Obscenity; pornography; indecency 13. 11/16 28. Religious Freedom. Blasphemy Laws Blasphemy laws; http://debatewise.org/debates/3056-criminalising- teaching creationism in blasphemy/#yes2 classes; prayers in Muslim Head Scarf Debate schools; wearing veils. http://www2.idebate.org/debatabase/debates/law- crime/house-would-criminalise-blasphemy Religious Freedom (Handouts)

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29. Discrimination: Discrimination (Handouts) Race, Class, and Sex. Reverse discrimination; class vs. race; friendly harassment; mandatory coeducation in state universities 14. 11/30 30. Heath. Health Care (Handouts) Organ donations; Computer and Information Ethics (Handouts) genetic engineering; legalizing medical marijuana 31. Cyber Ethics. Virtual harm; privacy; anonymity. 32. Environmental Animals and the Environment (Handouts) Ethics and Animal Hardin, Tragedy of the Commons (Handouts) Rights. Scientific testing on animals; humane conditions for domestic animals; economic development vs. environments 15. 12/7 33. War War and the World (Handouts) Position Women and draft; paper due veiled id; torture; obeying orders; profiling Review

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Multimedia resources partially used in class:

Achbar, Mark, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan. The Corporation. [New York]: Zeitgeist, 2004. Documentary film.

Alvarez, Kyle Patrick, et al. The Stanford prison experiment. 2015. DVD

Connolly, Peggy. Ethics in Action: A Case-Based Approach. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Cuomo, Chris. Basic Instincts 5 The Milgram Experiment Re-Visited. [New York]: ABC News Productions, 2007. Documentary film.

Ferguson, Charles H., et al. Inside job. Culver City, Calif: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2011.

Gibney, Alex, et al. Enron the smartest guys in the room. Los Angeles, Calif: Magnolia Home Entertainment, 2005. Documentary film.

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Philip G. Zimbardo. The Stanford Prison Experiment. http://www.prisonexp.org/

Books:

Aristotle, and Roger Crisp. Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Ciulla, Joanne B. The Ethics of Leadership. South Melbourne, Australia: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003.

Collier, Paul. The Bottom Billion Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Columbia University, and Boston Research Center for the 21st Century. The United Nations and the World's Religions Prospects for a Global Ethic : Proceedings of a Conference Held October 7, 1994, at Columbia University. Cambridge, MA: Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, 1995.

Corvino, John, and Maggie Gallagher. Debating Same-Sex Marriage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Fedler, Kyle D. Exploring Christian Ethics: Biblical Foundations for Morality. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.

Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Gore, Albert. An Inconvenient Truth The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. Emmaus, Pa: Rodale Press, 2006.

Held, Virginia. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Hollinger, Dennis P. Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Academic, 2002.

Kant, Immanuel, and H. J. Paton. Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

Lovin, Robin W. An Introduction to Christian Ethics Goals, Duties, and Virtues. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011

McFaul, Thomas R. The Future of Peace and Justice in the Global Village: The Role of the World Religions in the Twenty-First Century. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2006.

Milco, Michael R. Ethical Dilemmas in Church Leadership: Case Studies in Biblical Decision Making. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1997.

Milgram, Stanley. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Neusner, Jacob, and Bruce Chilton. The Ethics of Family Life: What Do We Owe One Another? Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001.

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Noddings, Nel. Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education. Berkeley: University of Press, 1984.

Noddings, Nel. Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko, and Darrel Moellendorf. Global Justice: Seminal Essays. New York: Paragon House, 2008.

Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko, and Keith Horton. Global Ethics: Seminal Essays. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2008.

Rigney, Daniel. The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.

Sachs, Jeffrey. The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.

Sandel, Michael J. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

Sandel, Michael J. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Sandel, Michael J. Justice: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Shipler, David K. The Working Poor: Invisible in America. New York: Knopf, 2004.

Singer, Peter. One World: The Ethics of Globalization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. The Price of Inequality: [How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future]. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2012.

Stivers, Laura A., Christine E. Gudorf, and James B. Martin-Schramm. Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012.

Taylor, Richard. Good and Evil. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000.

Trull, Joe E., and James E. Carter. Ministerial Ethics: Moral Formation for Church Leaders. Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker Academic, 2004.

Zimbardo, Philip G. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. New York: Random House, 2007.

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Guidelines for Writing Assignments

Reflection Paper #1 (1,000 ~ 1,500 words; double spaced; include references)

Course outcomes to be assessed: 1. Articulate major ethical theories, and their strength and weakness. 2. Articulate how ethical theories are applied to specific moral dilemmas.

Task: Choose an ethical case/issue discussed in class or you find in news/articles/books and explain how one (or more) of ethical theories/positions view the issue. Critically analyze and assess its argument and its basic principles.

Reflection Paper #2 (1,000 ~ 1,500 words; double spaced; include references)

Course outcome to be assessed: 3. Articulate fundamental philosophical issues underlying ethical discourses. 4. Demonstrate critical thinking skills in salient social issues by articulating how one’s faith plays out in ethical reasoning on social issues.

Task: Describe what philosophical issues are intertwined with ethical reasoning and present your perspectives. Clearly articulate what issues are, why and how they are critical to ethical reasoning or moral decision. Include a remark on the relevance to your faith position.

Position Paper (2,500 ~ 3,000 words; double spaced; include references)

Course outcomes to be assessed: 1. Articulate major ethical theories, and their strength and weakness. 2. Articulate how ethical theories are applied to specific moral dilemmas. 3. Articulate fundamental philosophical issues underlying ethical discourses. 4. Demonstrate critical thinking skills in salient social issues by articulating how one’s faith plays out in ethical reasoning on social issues.

Task: Take an ethical issue/case, present your positon, and develop compelling arguments. Include: 1) critical analysis/assessment of your argument by highlighting the limitation/weakness of your argument; 2) relevance to ethical theories/positions if there is any (if irrelevant, state so and explain why); 3) a remark on how your faith plays out in your arguments.

M.Div. students are required to take a case from ministerial ethics issues.

Format:

I. Introduction: Briefly describe an ethical issue/case and state your position. II. Body: Argue why and how your position holds. Include opposing positions/perspectives and your responses. If your view is relevant to ethical theories, clearly explain how and why. III. Conclusion: Recapitulate your position and point out any remaining issues to be explored.

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