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[tinyjo]

Oh, god! I want so much to do this ethics course. My finger is actually hovering over the sign up button despite the fact that it is a crazy person plan. I really miss academic study - doing those OU courses really whetted my appitite and although my teaching course was many things, academic it wasn't. It is a crazy plan I tell you. I am going to be an NQT next year! Maybe I'll sign up in April so I can do most of it over the summer. Also, dyddgu, what do you think of this course?

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[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

That does look very good. Particularly impressed with the focus on the eighteenth century, naturally ;-) Hell, I'm even tempted to take it after I've finished up...

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

By the time you're done you'll be so fed up with Welsh history you'll be looking at maths courses :)

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Oh, ye of little faith!
Besides, I am not an historian, and actually doing history might be interesting.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Fair enough :) I actually usually forget that - because all the stuff I'm aware of you reading is c18, I just mentally categorise you as a historian, which is odd.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

That's not unusual - people either think I am an historian, or a mediævalist...

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Given that the full course is, as you say, a crazy person plan I'd recommend borrowing Causing Death and Saving Lives by Jonathan Glover from a local library, which will whizz you authoritatively (though partisanly) through much of the course in a fraction of the time.

And if you enjoy it then there's Rawls, and Nozick, and Singer...The nice thing about modern moral philosophy is that you don't absolutely need a tutor because a lot of the good stuff is written in very accessible books.

[jinty]

That is much better advice than I can give, namely: I hated moral philosophy and wanted none of it hence no good suggestions!