Using a chart format, list in rank order the four most important things you learned in Introduction to Ethics this semester. Include the source and a comment on the importance of each (up to 8 points).
II. Respond to one of the following three ethical theory writing prompts in a 1-2-page double-spaced essay (up to 8 points).
1. (a) Define and describe Consequentialism, with reference to the Principle of Utility. (b) Do you find the theory plausible? Why or why not?
2. (a) Define and describe Kantian Duty Ethics, with reference to the Principle of Universalizability and the Principle of Humanity. (b) Do you find the theory plausible? Why or why not?
3. (a) Define and describe Virtue Ethics. (b) What do you think of the theory? Explain.
III. Respond to one of the following applied ethics writing prompts in a 1-2-page double-spaced essay (up to 8 points).
4. (a) List and explain the six criteria for just war from the reading Philosophers Agree on Criteria for Justifiable War. (b) Assess any one of Americas past or present wars according to those criteria.
5. (a) Summarize Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidts the Coddling of the American Mind. (b) What do you think of the essay? Explain.
6. (a) Summarize Don Marquis pro-life argument in Why Abortion is Immoral. (b) Summarize Judith Jarvis Thomsons pro-choice argument in A Defense of Abortion. (c) Which argument do you find more convincing? Why?
7. (a) Summarize Peter Singers argument in the Singer Solution to World Poverty. (b) Do you find the argument persuasive? Why or why not?
8. (a) Summarize Peter Singers argument in All Animals are Equal. (b) Do you find the argument persuasive? Why or why not?
9. (a) Summarize James Rachels argument in the Morality of Euthanasia. (b) Do you find the argument persuasive? Why or why not?
10. (a) Summarize Thomas Hill Jr.s argument in Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments. (b) Do you find the argument persuasive? Why or why not?
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