5.+Assignments+for+week+of+March+13

WRITING ASSIGNMENT Due Sunday March 13 1. Review the readings by Haidt and Gilbert and make a list of their insights (about a dozen). 2. In a new letter to your children, take one or two of the insights from this unit (and that includes not only those you have listed from Haidt and Gilbert, but also the ten writers you read the first week and John Stuart Mill). Tell your children why this insight will be important for them to understand in order to lead a good life. If you do not agree with the insight(s) about which you are writing explain to your children the importance of realizing that this insight is incorrect. (300 words) 3. Respond to some comment made by us to you with respect to your first letter.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Due Monday, March 14

1. President's Council on Bioethics, excerpts from the conclusion of a report called Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness, published October, 2003: [|Pres Council Bioethics Conclusion Happy Souls.doc] ONE TAKEAWAY and ONE QUESTION

2. A Dose of Genius, by Joel Garreau, The Washington Post [|A Dose Of Genius Wash Post.doc] ONE TAKEAWAY and ONE QUESTION

3. "Good Science or Good Business?", by David Healy. from __Prozac as a Way of Life__, edited by Carl Elliott and Tod Chambers, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2004. This file is in a different format from your handout, but is the same except for the initial "abstract" paragraph: ONE TAKEAWAY and ONE QUESTION