Monday, December 15, 2014

Dr. Johnson Contemporay Moral issue class

This semester, I took Dr. Johnson Contemporary Moral issues class. In the class, we learned about different philosophers and their philosophy. The different philosophers had different views on what it means to be considered morally good. The philosophers that we covered are: Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mills, Sartre, Marx, and Epictetus. They all had their own perspective on what it meant to morally good.  During the semester, we would discuss about how each philosopher would say about different situations in the world. We had symposiums to where we would pretend to be the philosopher. We were given situations and we would have to explain how it go against our philosopher's philosophy. Also, we would ask question about other group's philosopher about how would they say about the situation as they are pretending as their philosopher. In honesty, symposiums were really fun because we got to practice what we learned and argue about it. Then, we watched a documentary called catfish. It is about this woman tricked a young man into falling in love with a fake person that she created on facebook. In the end, the guy finds out she lied and that still they are friends on facebook. We discussed how it is moral or immoral that the woman did this to the guy. Overall, I loved the class and the teacher. I learned a lot on how to take certain situations and apply what I learned and see if my actions to it would be considered moral or immoral. Also, it will help me to become a better person in the world. I will miss the class and everybody in the class.  

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