Oh, and here's the criteria:

[conuly]

Write a paper in which you defend cultural relativism against James Rachels' criticism of this theory in "Morality is Not Relative." In your paper you should do the following. First, clearly explain what the issue is over the status of moral truths. Second, clearly explain the three theories of moral truths: objectivism, cultural relativism, and subjective relativism. Third, clearly state the cultural difference argument in support of cultural relativism. Fourht, clearly explain Rachels' objection to the cultural difference argument. And fifth, clearly explain how a cultural relativist (such as yourself) could reasonable (sic) respond to Rachel's (sic) objection.

You must use appropriate quotations from the text to illustrate and support your ideas.

Well, crap. This guy HAS no appropriate quotations. He's completely unquotable! Seriously. *sighs*

Comments

[conuly]

Well, if you'd taken this course, you'd not only understand cultural relativism, you'd know who Rachels is. He's not asking us to do research. This is all material we covered in class.

This is why I admire people like you, people who can actually succeed in school.

*cracks up laughing*

Man, I didn't tell you about my grades, did I? I do get a lot of As. I also get a lot, way more than I should, of Fs. Nothing in between, except for those damnable Latin grades. Because I don't attend class, or because I attend but don't do the work, or because I get scared and can't attend (that was the worst, Jenn very nearly killed me).

I'm actually going to see if I can test out of a lot of the stuff I haven't bothered testing out of in, because I can't keep doing this. I really can't. It's driving me batty. But summer courses are easier because they go faster, I have less time to let myself mess up.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least you're trying. School downright frightens me. :)

[conuly]

Have you considered taking "adult education" classes? You don't have to go part-time, even, just take a spare class here or there, desensitize yourself. And learn something new.