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# Describe Haidt's research on disgust. What is its possible significance for understanding the nature of ethics.
 
# Describe Haidt's research on disgust. What is its possible significance for understanding the nature of ethics.
 
# What is Haidt's criticism of developmental psychology's past approach to understanding the nature of ethics?
 
# What is Haidt's criticism of developmental psychology's past approach to understanding the nature of ethics?
# Explain the slogan, "Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second".  What is its significance for understanding the nature of ethics?
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# Why does Haidt think that Turiel's and Schweder's research represent an improvement over the nature/nuture debate?
  
 
==JAN 28==
 
==JAN 28==

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JAN 14

1st class

JAN 16

  1. What were Ariely's findings on honesty?
  2. What is the possible significance of his research for understanding the nature of ethics?

JAN 21

  1. How do we use metaphors to think about the psyche, soul, and human identity?
  2. What organic features of consciousness does Haidt think we need to consider when doing ethics? How might they be usefull?
  3. What picture of the mind does Haidt leave us with?
  4. What is the the significance of defining ethics in terms of settling value conflict?
  5. What, if anything, does the Zimbardo Experiment tell us about the nature of ethics?

JAN 23

  1. Describe Haidt's research on disgust. What is its possible significance for understanding the nature of ethics.
  2. What is Haidt's criticism of developmental psychology's past approach to understanding the nature of ethics?
  3. Why does Haidt think that Turiel's and Schweder's research represent an improvement over the nature/nuture debate?

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