**Due tonight: Read Pojman, Chapter 2, Why be moral?
------>Writing: In Chapter 1, Pojman used the examples of "Lord of the Flies" and "Leviathan" to help support his discussion of the need for the study of ethics. Write your own answer to the question of this chapter: "Why study Ethics?" Support your answer with some evidence from literature or film, or from your own experience (without getting too personal, please), that helps you understand and explain this need clearly.
------>------>Time to discuss assignment....
**Conclude discussion of "Why Study Ethics?"--(See presentation from previous class)
------>Various cases: see pp. 13-16.
**Chapter 2: Why be Moral? (OR, Are you Jack or Jim?)
**For next week, Read Pojman, Chapter 3--Ethical Relativism.
------> Write a page: Re-read Heinrich Himmler's justification of Nazi racial policy, quoted on page 63 of the text. Is someone like Himmler "entitled to his opinion"? Explain, please.
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