Moral Dilemma – Before Paper. Near the beginning of the course, you will write a minimum of 750 words about your response to a specific moral dilemma in order to assess your own moral thinking as you begin the class. The “Before Paper” should • State the moral issue • Outline the moral issue’s history […]
This assignment asks you to enter into the debate between Plato and the Sophists, and think about how it is relevant to some contemporary public issue. The differences between the Sophistic principles of rhetoric and Plato’s criticisms of rhetoric as seen in the Gorgias dialogue are most apparent when it comes to rhetoric’s relationship to […]
Read “The Statue That Didn’t Look Right” and provide a medium-paragraph length answer to each question below (using full and complete sentences). 1. Numerous art experts who looked at the Getty’s kouros statue immediately thought it was not authentic. What are the specific impressions and feelings that they had which led them to this judgment? […]
Moral Analysis Essay Instructions: Select a film that features a moral problem in medical ethics. Write an essay that consists of your analysis of the ethical dimensions of the film that you select to discuss. To do this effectively, you will need to include a well-reasoned analysis of the story and its characters.Your film analysis […]
For this assignment, you will write a 2–3-page essay (double-spaced, 1-inch margins) providing examples of how some facet of “process philosophy” has impacted American government and/or society. You may focus on just 1 example, or you may discuss 2–3 examples. Options include the following topics: A specific piece of legislation. The “party platform” of […]
Think back to the conversations you’ve had during the last week. Give an example of a deductive argument and an inductive argument that you or your interlocutor made. For each of these arguments, list the premises and the conclusion. Was the deductive argument valid? Was the inductive argument strong? Why or why not, exactly? 2. […]
It seems that for many people, the terms ”evolution”, “creationism” and “big bang” evoke very strong emotional responses. Sometimes it is difficult to get past the emotions in search of the truth. Websites like the National Center for Science Education, Discovery Institute, Answers in Genesis, and Biologos are dedicated to supporting their own strongly held […]
Ethicist Margaret Battin (1987) suggests that physicians should uphold a patient’s autonomy by informing them about humane methods for ending one’s life. Thus, the principle of autonomy creates a moral obligation for physicians to provide patients (who request it) with information on how to die. Furthermore, some individuals create suicide kits that are available for […]
Use the following 2 starting points to develop your essay on morality and ethics: The article by Jay Feldman: Sunday Dialogue: How Corporations Behave Alfred North Whitehead’s controversial statement, “What is morality in any given time and place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike” […]
The philosopher John Locke theorized that humans are born with a blank slate or a tabula rasa. Our experiences imprint on the blank slate – and this is how we achieve knowledge, according to Locke. An opposing philosophical theory holds that humans are born with innate ideas. That is, we already have some information or […]
