Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Japanese
Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's Course) Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Humanities Program
Lecture Code WMBF3001 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name 応用倫理学基礎演習A
Subject Name
(Katakana)
オウヨウリンリガクキソエンシュウA
Subject Name in
English
Introductory Seminar on Applied Ethics A
Instructor OKAMOTO SHIMPEI
Instructor
(Katakana)
オカモト シンペイ
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 1st-Year,  First Semester,  First Semester
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (1st) Fri5-6:LET A601(Ethics Study Rm)
Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
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Seminar 
Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week   Language of Instruction B : Japanese/English
Course Level 5 : Graduate Basic
Course Area(Area) 23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area(Discipline) 02 : Ethics
Eligible Students
Keywords  
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
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Criterion referenced
Evaluation
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Class Objectives
/Class Outline
In order to understand the discussion at the forefront of applied ethics, I will choose to read Andrew Chingnell et al. eds. *Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating* Routledge. 2016. 
Class Schedule Lesson 1 Introduction
Lesson 2 Conscientious Omnivorism
Lesson 3 Manly Meat and Gendered Eating: Correcting Imbalance and Seeking Virtue
Lesson 4 Eat Responsibly: Agrarianism and Meat
Lesson 5 Why I Am a Vegan (and You Should Be One Too)
Lesson 6 A Moral Argument for Veganism
Lesson 7 Non-Ideal Food Choices
Lesson 8 Philosophy as Therapy for Recovering (Unrestrained) Omnivores
Lesson 9 Eating Dead Animals: Meat Eating, Meat Purchasing, and Proving Too Much
Lesson 10 Consumer Ethics, Harm Footprints, and the Empirical Dimensions of Food Choices
Lesson 11 Can We Really Vote with Our Forks? Opportunism and the Threshold Chicken
Lesson 12 Factory Farming and Consumer Complicity
Lesson 13 Eating Meat as a Morally Permissible Moral Mistake
Lesson 14 Does Locavorism Keep It Too Simple?
Lesson 15 What’s Wrong with Artificial Ingredients? 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
Andrew Chingnell et al. eds. *Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating* Routledge. 2016. 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
 
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Learning techniques to be incorporated  
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review
Please Think about what the author wants to say (conclusion) and the basis thereof. 
Requirements  
Grading Method Presentation(50%) and questions at other times (50%) 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message  
Other   
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