life’s not a paragraph

my last class of the week and my last class to finish. ethics is are required course, and since i do not have the talent of philosophizing, so i am not going to gush about this course. it wasn’t my favorite, but i did like it. i would take ethics over math any day. haha

the course was just a general ethics course. we learned about a bunch of moral theories like utilitarianism, ethical egoism, and virtue ethics. after we went over the basics of all those, we moved on to some more current ethical issues like abortion, animal rights, and euthanasia.

the last time i had a debate unit in a class was in language arts in eighth grade. sure, polarizing issues have come up in other courses, but since i was thirteen, i have been involved in very few discussions in school which examine two sides of an issue. i have to say i found the latter part of the class particularly interesting because in my life, these are issues that i must have an opinion on. they are not hypothetical situations; these issues are dilemmas that people face every day. before the class, i already had a general idea about how i felt about most of these issues, but it was definitely intriguing to hear the pro and con arguments from the philosophical perspective for each issue.

and even though it was the dullest part of the class, i enjoyed learning about all of the different moral theories. i have never really thought about what label(s) my moral beliefs fall under. this class kind of forced me to compare my opinions to these established theories and evaluate them. i haven’t really come up with a label for myself, but i now know some of the theories i associate with.

i have definitely taken a lot out of the class. but, i must say, i was extremely relieved when i got out of my final last night and i realized that i was completely done. i think i have had enough of philosophy for awhile. i have learned a lot… most importantly, that i am definitely not cut out to be a philosophy major. hahaha