introduction

My name is David Tynan, I'm a transfer student starting my junior year at MCLA. Before I came here I was studying Computer Science at a rather large engineering school in the midwest. While I found it quite interesting I realized that it wasn't what I wanted to do with my life. Now I'm a philosophy major. I find the two fields are not as divorced as most people assume as they are both primarily about analyzing and understanding problems, although generally with different questions and goals.

I have only a fairly light background on both ethics and Lincoln, but I'm looking forward to this class quite a bit. I've always found ethics to be an interesting topic of study as most people have a similar intuitive grasp of what is ethical but find it very hard to formalize. Lincoln is of course one of the most popular figures in the history of the united states but there is certainly plenty to cover from an ethical perspective.