I Expect It Would Be an Interesting Conversation
Posted on September 29th, 2005 in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
The University of Michigan is initiating a series of undergraduate courses on ethics. Here’s one description:
“Forums to facilitate discussion about ethics are undefined right now, but their basic function is clear â providing a discussion setting on topics such as military action in Iraq and Harvard President Lawrence Summersâs controversial comments on women in science.”
It is an interesting moment in Harvard’s historyâalthough not inherently a bad oneâwhen its president has become a topic in other universities’ classes for a conversation about ethics.
Funnily enough, the Michigan program is taking shape just as Harvard seems to be phasing out its own undergraduate requirement in “moral reasoning”…..
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10/7/2024 5:55 am
if you had ever had to attend a moral reasoning core it would be self-evident why they should be phased out.
I think college is too late to teach people ethics, and I think it is not the proper roll of a University. A Universtiy should act ethically, something Harvard does not, but college courses should be spent learning and researching. On the one hand the University cannot teach what it has no expertise in, on the other, high-school students should already know not to lie, cheat, and steal.