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Article: Teaching ethics with comic strips. (innovative teaching approach of philosophy professors Courtney Campbell and Lani Roberts of Oregon State Univ)(Brief Article)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- August 1, 1997
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It's not easy to teach the MTV generation of college students about the origins of modern philosophy and ethics. Mention Friedrich Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard, and eyes begin to glaze. Philosophy professors Courtney Campbell and Lani Roberts of Oregon State University, Corvallis, have come up with an innovative way of reaching their students, though. They use comic strips.
Instead of pontificating about Kierkegaard's existentialism, they examine "Calvin and Hobbes." To introduce Immanuel Kant's primary moral law, they might, for instance, use a panel from "For Better or Worse." "Getting beyond the humor of comic strips takes philosophical skill and a great ...