Benin 2014 Ethics Course Reading Schedule

Return to Ethics -- Benin

All readings are available from the course website (alfino.org) as pdfs.

Thursday June 5, 2014

• LC Packet: Reader, The Atlantic Slave Trade (pp. 377-403)
• Ethics: Ariely, "Why We Lie"

Monday June 9, 2014

• Ethics: Haidt, Righteous Mind (RM), Intro and Chapter 1, "Where Does Morality Come From?"

Tuesday June 10, 2014

• Ethics: Haidt, "The Divided Self"

• LC Packet: Gardinier and Beierschenk -- Francophone Africa and Benin Politics

Wednesday June 11, 2014

• First Group Responses: Benin Learning Community and Ethics course

Monday June 16, 2014

• LC Packet: Mama, Kpai, Hass: View the Kpai and Hass video over the course of the week.
• Ethics: Haidt Chapter 2, "The Intuitive Dog and It's Rational Tail"
• Ethics: Haidt Chapter 3, "Elephants Rule"

Tuesday June 17, 2014

• Ethics: Haidt Chapter 4, "Vote For Me"

Wendnesday June 18, 2014

• LC Packet: Millenium Development Goals for Benin and Easterly reading. Browse links on Learning Community site and look up other health and development data, and save notes for in country discussion.
• Ethics: Haidt Chapter 5, "Beyond WEIRD Morality"

Thursday June 19, 2014

• Haidt, Chapter 6, "Taste Buds of the Righteous Mind"
• Haidt, Chapter 7, "The Moral Foundations of Politics"

Monday July 7, 2014

• Haidt, Chapter 9, "Why are we so Groupish?"

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

• Haidt, Chapter 10, "The Hive Switch"

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

• Sandel, Utilitarianism
• Singer, One World, Chapter 1, "A Changing World"

Thursday, July 10, 2014

• Sandel, Rawls
• Singer, "Rich and Poor"

Monday July 14, 2014

• Sachs, Jeffrey, from The End of Poverty, Chapter 15, "Can the Rich Afford to Help the Poor?"

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

• I'll leave this part of the schedule open right now. We might be writing papers or looking at ethical issues relevant to Benin (development, corruption, and health issues, for example)