PowerPoint 1 from RLST 240

1. What we’ll do today:
 Compete for valuable prizes based upon your knowledge of the syllabus (30 minutes)
 Introduce the study of ethics through discussion of “The Paralysis of Absolutophobia”
(40 minutes)
In-class Learning Outcomes
 Identify potential sources of moral relativism
 Evaluate the author’s objections to moral relativism and what he suggests to replace it
 Self-Assessment (5 minutes)
 Briefly explain one important thing that you learned today about morality that you had never
really thought about or realized before. How might that idea apply to your life?
 If another Saint Mary’s student wants to add this class and asked you how it would be on the
basis of what we did today, what would you say?