**First priority: Be ready to sign up for your choice of film paper/presentation. Come in prepared with a couple or three alternatives. Project will be due on the 17th.
**Due tonight:
------>Read Pojman, Chapter 4, "Ethical Objectivism"
------>Write a page: As best you can, make an effort to succinctly
summarize the Natural Law position in morality. Discuss Pojman's
assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this position--do you
agree/disagree?
**Ethical Objectivism:
**As time permits, survey some of the "classic dilemmas" from chapter 4.
------>Video/Exercise on "The tragedy of the Commons"
**For next week, Oct. 10:
------>Read Pojman, chapter 5, "Religion and Ethics."
------>Writing: Think of this as a puzzle to solve:
------>------>Imagine that a mysterious, superior being appears to you and says, "I am God and I am good; therefore, obey my command--torture your mother." (Just for the sake of quieting the plausibility issue temporarily, feel free to refer to the Bible's Book of Genesis, Chapter 22, in which God very matter-of-factly tells the patriarch Abraham to kill his son as a sacrifice to God.) How would the proponent of the divine command theory deal with this sudden order from the deity? What would be some possible ways out of this dilemma that would not violate the intentionality of the DCT point of view?
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