War and Peace: Grades

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Code*	Final Course Grade	Statements	Discussion	Final test
1224	A	11	11	11.6
1286	A-	5	12	10.3
1892	C+	0	6	7.7
3773	A-	11	11	7
4250	B+	10	9	8
5520	B-	7	10	8.8
6820	B	8	5	10.3
8997	A-	11	11	9.3

*If you didn’t provide a code, you can get grades through the regular online method that the campus offers.

Numbers correspond to grades as follows:

A+ 12

A 11

A- 10

B+ 9

B 8

B- 7

C+ 6

C 5

C- 4

Absences

I know there were more absences than I recorded, so what I used is absolutely the minimum number of your absences. They affected grades significantly. You could be helped or hurt; see the syllabus. I at first included them on the chart above, but I realized that would identify people too easily, and you know your absences anyway (you just don’t know how many I failed to record). Recorded absences ranged from 0 to 6.

A few notes on final test answers

§ Those who say “it’s immoral, but we just have to do it” seem to be ignoring that utilitarianism is an ethical theory. They seem to assume the only moral theory is one of absolute rules (“e.g., never bomb cities”), and then when they consider consequences, they fail to realize that that can be one possible ethical consideration. (It’s the only consideration for the utilitarian.)

§ Those who say “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” are making the appropriate conduct in war depend upon the justice of the cause. But aside from Walzer defining terrorist descriptively (which most of you said), this statement violates Walzer’s idea that the standard for appropriate conduct in war is the same whether or not the war is unjust or unjust. (Independence of just ad bellum and jus in bello.) Of course the one exception for Walzer is in a “supreme emergency,” which is not the same as doing what is necessary to win any war, only the very rare war that represents a “supreme emergency.”

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