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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The Practicum is an ongoing series aimed at helping people learn how to use the basic tools of ethical inquiry and deliberation.
Each session of the Practicum focuses on one particular idea or skill that may be useful for thinking more clearly about values in practical situations. Participants will have the opportunity to acquire and practice using each of these tools in an informal, collaborative setting.
The Practicum is open to all students and faculty; it may be of special interest to students currently enrolled in ethics courses so, if you are teaching such a course this semester, please let your students know about it.
The inaugural session of The Practicum will focus on the idea of virtue.
As Aristotle would have it, a virtue is a habit relative to a particular emotion or impulse, or to a particular domain of human activity.
At this session of the Practicum, we will practice finding the connection between big ideas like 'courage' and 'integrity' and 'self-control,' the particular domains within which they apply, and the practical contexts in which they might show themselves - or fail to show themselves.
