Benin 2014 Ethics Course Reading Schedule

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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

Thursday June 12, 2014

  • LC Packet: Mama, Kpai, Hass: View the Kpai and Hass video over the course of the week.


Monday June 16, 2014

  • 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

  • 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)


Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Thursday, July 17, 2014