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24.s10 Spring 2009 Undergraduate Ethics Seminar

Spring Semester 2013

BEING, THINKING, DOING (OR NOT!): Ethics and Your Life

Day TBD
7:30-9:00pm
Spring Semester

Join us for dinner for interactive and lively lecture/discussions with guest faculty from various disciplines. Participants will investigate and solve ethical problems, share resources, and gain skills for clarifying their personal and vocational principles.

During the semester, students will be required to attend at least 3 Technology and Culture public forums or other pertinent public lectures offered at MIT which will spark discussion. There will be recommended readings to supplement the discussions; 3 reflection papers will be required and an informal 5 minute presentation at semester’s end.

Last year’s guests included Caspar Hare, MIT Philosophy; Debra Levy, Tufts University; Bish Sanyal, MIT Urban Studies and Planning; Robert Taylor, author of "A New Way to Be Human"; and Stona Fitch, author and publisher, Concord Free Press. Topics ranged widely— what does it mean to live “ethically”, economic justice, the responsibilities of the author and publisher, development ethics, and positive psychology and the good life.