Please see this website how to write a good Socratic dialogue: http://morec.com/socratic/
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>.
