Working With Moral Frameworks
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In working with moral frameworks, you need to know which six-member group you are in and also your philosopher identity within the group. Your particular assignment for the week will depend upon this philosopher identity.
These instructions for working with moral frameworks include six
parts:
I. Initial Explanation
II. Information about Grading
III. More Details about Assignments
IV. Sample Interpretation of a Moral Framework
V. Table of Assignments for Moral Frameworks - Weeks 2-7
VI. Checklist for Work Assignments
I. Initial Explanation
| Assignment | Degree of Difficulty | Tasks |
| Framework Interpreter | 1 | Explain (including your reasoning) how each of the week's assigned moral frameworks would deal with the assigned scenario . |
| Framework Evaluator | 3 | Evaluate (giving justification) each of the week's assigned moral frameworks--(a) ranking them from best to worst, (b) justifying your ranking in terms of their handling of the assigned scenario, and (c) justifying your ranking in terms of any other relevant evidence or reasoning from the information given about the Moral Frameworks for the week. |
| Argument Analyzer | 2 | Examine the framework evaluation and explain what types of evidence or reasoning are present (given the account of Justifying a Position). |
Your group will have a separate discussion group listing. Each week the group consists of four framework interpreters, one framework evaluator, and one argument analyzer. Positions rotate through the group. Thus, over six weeks, each student serves four times as a framework interpreter, once as a framework evaluator, and once as an argument analyzer.
Time Constraints of the Weekly Schedule:
1. Interpreters have the first three days to
post their interpretations;
2. The evaluator should post a first draft of
the evaluation no later than the fifth day;
3. The analyzer should post the
argument-analysis no later than the seventh day;
4. The evaluator should post a final draft of
the evaluation no later than the ninth
day.
Although the paragraph above lays out absolute time constraints, messages within the group should circulate continuously throughout the week. Maximum discussion of the framework, its application, and its evaluation is desirable. Ideally, interpreters should provide suggestions and/or feedback to the evaluator and analyzer rather than considering their group activity for the week finished by the third day.
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