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

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I couldn't hack it in college. PAPERS. I don't even know what a "cultural relativism" IS. Nor do I know who James Rachels is.

When I was 16 and my parents kicked me out, I dropped out of High School with a 3.0 GPA, and it would have been more, had I applied myself, but I joined the dark side. Heh.

I know I'm not stupid...me and school...we just don't get along. It's much too structured. I mean...would you believe me if I told you I failed English my Junior year in High School with a 15%? *sigh*

My teacher flunked me because I was bored to tears with what she wanted me to read, so instead, I sat in the back of the class and wrote poetry...

...and got an A on the final. Oh, the irony. I hate school with a burning, fiery passion, but if there's something I WANT to learn, I'll get on the internet and learn it in a matter of days.

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

[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.