Saturday, October 12, 2013

(LE) Student Ethics


I have just posted the next phase of the essay assignment to Canvas. Doing a good job on this assignment, and in a timely manner, is overdetermined by all the moral theories available to us:  
  • diligence and timeliness are qualities of virtuous persons in a good polis;
  • the maxim of a slacker could never serve as a universal law of nature in a realm of ends; 
  • the aggregate balance of utility (happiness and fulfillment over pain and suffering) would be undermined by the unpleasant consequences of missed deadlines or sloppy work.
So have at it!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

This may be a silly question, but is this intended to be due on Tuesday? On Canvas it is labeled as due on Oct. 10th.

Matt Silliman said...

Canvas is going all glitchy on me. The due date is the 17th.