RS 300 Foundations of Ethics

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RS 300 Foundations of Ethics

• Social Justice/ Spring 2007

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Where have we been?

• What is morality?
• Coleman Brown, FGM, Relative vs. Objective Truth
• Life Issues
• Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, War, Abortion,
  Reproductive Issues, Stem Cell Research
• Character, Virtue and Conscience
• Character vs. Personality, The Shawshank
  Redemption, Practicing Virtue
• Sexuality and the Media
• The Merchants of Cool, Killing Us Softly, music,
  movies and more!
• Synthesizing
• Final Exams

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Where are we going?

• What is Justice?
• Civil and Human Rights
• Social Justice Issues
• Ecological Justice
• Heroes

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What is Justice?

• Admissions Project
• Biblical Justice
• Justice and Fairness
• El Salvador Romero
• Catholic Social Teaching
• Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
• The Man in the Well

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Civil Rights

• Race Discrimination, Segregation Hate
• The American Civil Rights Movement
• Eyes on the Prize
• Race, segregation and civil rights today
• Segregation in education, hate groups,
  affirmative action, civil rights hate crimes
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Rosa Parks

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Human Rights

• Creating an enemy
• Night and the Holocaust
• Genocide
• 8 Stages of Genocide
• 1948 Convention on Genocide
• Rwanda
• Cambodia
• Bosnia
• Armenia
• Sudan
• Genocide Film Series

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Social Justice Issues

• AIDS in Africa
• Sweatshops
• Immigration
• Homelessness in SF
• Global Hunger
• Human Trafficking
• Torture

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Ecological Justice

• The Ecological Crisis A Moral Problem
• Environmental Racism
• Current issues
• Climate Change, Resource Depletion, Toxic Waste
• Catholic Social Teaching and Ecology

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Where do we go now?

• Social Justice Heroes
• The Refugee All-Stars
• Dave Schooley
• Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ
• Tank Man
• Romeo Dallaire
• And