2014-2-PHI110

__NOTITLE__ Studying Bachelor of Arts. This is PHI110; the Philosophy, Morality and Society subject from Macquarie University. Undertaken Study Period 2, 2014. Content is quoted and/or summarised from the university website in fair dealing for purpose of research or study. See also: StudyWISE and AIMS.

Coursework

See: key dates. Note: weeks start on Monday. Use the weekly template for new weeks.

Week	Done	Date	Topic
Week 1	x	2 Jun 2014	Introduction: What is Moral Philosophy?
Week 2	x	9 Jun 2014	Epicurean Ethics
Week 3	x	16 Jun 2014	Stoic Ethics
Week 4		23 Jun 2014	Aristotle's Ethics
Week 5		30 Jun 2014	Cultural Diversity and Moral Relativism
Week 6		7 Jul 2014	Why be moral? Egoism and Self Interest Theories
Week 7		14 Jul 2014	Kant's Ethics
Week 8		21 Jul 2014	Utilitarianism
Week 9		28 Jul 2014	Animal Rights and Welfare
Week 10		4 Aug 2014	Global Justice
Week 11		11 Aug 2014	Historic Injustice and Indigenous rights
Week 12		18 Aug 2014	Justice, Immigration and Refugees
Week 13		25 Aug 2014	Revision

Resources

• OUA: My study centre
• iLearn for this unit (copy)
• Essential readings (copy)
• Additional readings for lectures and essays (copy)
• e-Reserve Results for Course Search: "PHI110" (copy)
• Announcements
• General Discussion Forum
• Course content
  • Audio

Unit guide

1. Unit Guide Homepage (original)
2. Teaching Staff and Communication (original)
3. About this unit (original)
4. OUA iLearn Template (original)
5. UG Learning Outcomes (original)
6. Assessment Summary (original)
   1. Assignment submission (original)
7. Extensions, Special Consideration and Special Circumstances (original)
8. Required and recommended texts and/or materials (original)
9. Unit webpage and technology used and required (original)
10. University Grading Policy (original)
11. Academic honesty / Plagiarism (original)
12. Student support services (original)
13. Weekly schedule (original)
14. Online Learning Support (original)

Essay guide

1. Writing philosophy essays (original)
2. Research (original)
3. Writing (original)
4. Format and structure (original)
5. General tips (original)
6. Writing process tips (original)
7. Other advice on writing essays (original)
8. Submission (original)
9. Plagiarism (original)
10. Referencing (original)
11. A Sample Bibliography (original)
12. When you get your essay back (original)

There are also two lectures:

• Essay Writing Tips
• First Assignment Tips

Assessment

• Assessment instruction (Submission, return and extensions) (original)
• Grading (original)
• Plagiarism (original)
• Assessment 2 - Text-based reading Exercise: due Sunday, Week 6 (original)
• Assessment 2 - Marking Rubric (PDF) (original)
• Reading exercise (Turnitin) -- Submit your reading exercise here through Turnitin.
• Assessment 3 - Main Essay: Due Sunday, end Week 13 (original)
• Main Essay Marking Rubric (PDF) (original)
• Assessment 4 - Participation (original)
• Essay (Turnitin) -- Submit your essay here through Turnitin.

Assessment 2 notes

Be relaxed in tone - but not informal. On the other side, avoid being stuck-up, or pretentious, too. Write in the first person, because the essay is about what you think about Epicurus or Cicero, etc.

• For talking about the text you're analysing, discuss the philosophical ideas in the present tense. Eg. 'Epicurus claims that pleasure is the goal of life'.
• If you are mentioning events in the philosopher's life - ie. they are historical considerations - then, use the past tense. Eg. 'Cicero was a Roman Senator and orator, who adopted Stoicism'.
• The last thing to keep an eye on is just to be consistent.

As we are working up to our first written assignment, try to answer the questions as if they were part of the assignment. That is,

• introduce the question
• explain the terms
• provide your own answer

as if you were intending to hand this in as part of a written assessment. The point being that practice will improve what you do in the assignment.

Books

• Books purchased for unit (local)
• Additional readings for lectures and essays (copy)

Audio processing

See this article about how to convert the provided MP3 files into OGG format.