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AGES: 13-16

MEETS ON ZOOM ON MONDAYS, 8:30-9:30AM PACIFIC TIME (11:30am EASTERN). STARTING AUGUST 7TH, 2020.

LED BY PARADOX LAB CO-FOUNDER, CHRIS NG.

This 6-session course introduces high schoolers to ethical theories and principles through thinking about everyday situations in which they need to make choices about who they want to be or what is the right thing to do.

Refund Policy: Full refund up to 48 hours prior to first session. Prorated for missed sessions upon request.

****Note: For this class to work, we must have at minimum 3 students enrolled. If this minimum is not reached by 48 hours prior to the first session, we will cancel and issue a full refund.

WEEKLY TOPICS

WEEK 1: What is ethics? What principles underlie our reasoning?

Through a choice of everyday moral dilemmas, we begin to see the different kinds of reasons that underlie our moral decision-making.

WEEK 2: If you can choose your identity, what would you choose to be?

If we cannot choose who we get to be, as if we were behind John Rawls’s veil of ignorance, then how should we act or create rules for society? 

WEEK 3: How do I “be good”?

Our parents may tell us to “be good,” but how does that help us figure out the right thing to do in a specific situation?  Does Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean give us guidance?

WEEK 4: What is the relationship between happiness and morality?

John Stuart Mill argues that the right thing to do is to maximize happiness for everyone, but can morality be reduced to some measurement or calculation of happiness?

WEEK 5: Is an action still good, if it is done for the wrong reason?

Immanuel Kant  believes that a person should do the right thing for the right reason. Is an action less meaningful if it is done for the wrong reason?

WEEK 6: How do you live your best life?

If you want to live your best life, how does it relate to ethics?

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