Socratic Dialogue (or Dialogue with Confucius)

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Minimum    9    pages    long.    Compose    an imaginary    dialogue    debating    a topic    (see    assigned
readings    for    each issue). Socrates    (or    Confucius)    should    perform    three    functions:
1. Clarification of    main    areas    of    agreement    and    disagreement    about    the
issue:    i.e.,    Socrates    must    identify    at    least    two    opposing    theses    on    the    issue
2. Paraphrase some    key    arguments    offered    on    both    sides for    these    theses,
as    Socrates    asks    questions    about    them,    while    he    moderates    the    debate
3. Evaluation of    what    the    others    say    to    Socrates    about    the    ethical    problems
involved    with    the    topic,    by    having    Socrates    offer    to    them    a    gentle,    indirect
critique    of    the    best    arguments    he    can    find    in    answer    to    his    questions

You must write ONE Socratic dialogueLabor rights

Dialogues    must    be    handed    in    to    the    professor    (via    Moodle)    during    the    appropriate
due    date    time    frames    specified    above.    Late    Socratic    dialogues    will    not    be    accepted.
You    will    be    graded    according    to    (1)    your    understanding    of    the    readings    and    issues;
(2)    grammar    /    clarity    /    spelling    /    etc.;    (3)    the    insightfulness of    your    evaluation    of
the    key    themes;    (4)    how    well    you    follow    the    instructions    on    the    handout    that    is
given    to    you    with    all    the    necessary    instructions    for    writing    a    good    Socratic    dialogue
(source:    Peter    Kreeft,    Socratic    Logic,    edition    3.1,    pp.    344-347).    Format    is:    size    12
font,    1.0-inch    margins,    double-spaced    between    speakers,    otherwise    single-spaced.

Recommended Texts and Materials:
Marcus    Aurelius. Meditations (Loeb Classical    Library):    <http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L058.pdf>.
Epictetus. Enchiridion (Loeb Classical    Library):    <https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L218.pdf>.
John    Finnis.    (1983).    Fundamentals    of    Ethics. [=    FE]
Georgetown    University    Press.    ISBN    0878404082.    {TWU    Library    BJ1012    .F526    1983}
John    Finnis.    (1991).    Moral    Absolutes:    Tradition,    Revision,    and    Truth.
Catholic    University    of    America    Press:
<https://ezproxy.student.twu.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=493627>.[=    MA]
John    Finnis.    (1998).    Aquinas:    Moral,    Political,    and    Legal    Theory.    Oxford    University    Press:
<https://ezproxy.student.twu.ca/login?url=http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12430>.
<https://ezproxy.student.twu.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=12430>.        [=    AQ]
John    Finnis.    (2011). Natural    Law    and    Natural    Rights,    2nd    ed. Oxford    University    Press:
<https://ezproxy.student.twu.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=405960>. [=    NL]
John    Finnis.    (2017).    Aquinas    Moral,    Political,    and    Legal    Philosophy,
in    Stanford    Encyclopedia    of    Philosophy:    <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas-moral-political/>.
Dietrich    von    Hildebrand.    (2020).    Ethics.    Hildebrand    Press.    ISBN    978-1939773159    [= DvH]
Alasdair    MacIntyre.    (1998).    A    Short    History    of    Ethics,    2nd    edition.    [=    AM]
Routledge.    ISBN    0415287499.
<https://ezproxy.student.twu.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=88293>.
Christopher    S.    Morrissey.    (2018).    The    Way    of    Logic.
Nanjing    Normal    University    Press. ISBN    978-7565135774. <http://enculturation.net/teaching-mcluhan>.
Brendan    Myers.    (2017). Clear    and    Present    Thinking,    2nd    edition. Northwest    Passage.
ISBN    978-0993952791.    Textbook    online    at:    <http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/cpt.html>. [=    CPT]
David    Oderberg.    (2000).    Moral    Theory:    A    Non-Consequentialist    Approach.        [=    MT]
Wiley-Blackwell.    ISBN    063121903X.    {TWU    Library    BJ1012    .O34    2000}
David    Oderberg.    (2000).    Applied    Ethics:    A    Non-Consequentialist    Approach.        [=    AE]
Wiley-Blackwell.    ISBN    0631219056.    {TWU    Library    BJ1031    .O34    2000}
Plato. Euthyphro.    Apology.    Crito. (Loeb Classical    Library): <https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L036.pdf>.
Douglas    Rushkoff.    (2019).    Team    Human.    <https://medium.com/team-human>.
W.W.    Norton    &    Company,    Inc.    ISBN    978-0393651690.    {TWU:    HM1106    .R875    2019}
Seneca. Letters 1-65 (Loeb Classical    Library):    <https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L075.pdf>.
Letters 66-92    (Loeb Classical    Library): <https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L076.pdf>.