Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 4 Discussion Week 4: Deontological Ethics Deontology (from the Greek for “duty”) is a system of ethics that uses rules (versus more flexible beliefs) to establish right and wrong. Although every system of ethics rooted in deontology may not be absolute (black or white), it’s close. Immanuel Kant is…
Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 3 Discussion The Social Contract Social Contract theorists say that morality consists of a set of (often “unwritten”?) rules governing how people should treat one another that rational beings will agree to accept for their mutual benefit, on the condition that others agree to follow these rules as well….
Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 2 Discussion Majority Who? What do numbers have to do with conscience? American writer Mark Twain warned, “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” These approaches to majorities aren’t news. Your parents probably warned you when you were young…
Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 1 Discussion Study of Ethics The study of ethics brings together many kinds of thinkers. Most people agree on some basics about human behavior (see Aristotle’s appeals to moderation in his virtue ethics in our lesson this week as an example). But we also understand that there is no…
Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 8 Assignment Reflection This assignment was locked Jun 26 at 11:59pm. Letter to Me In his song by this name (Links to an external site.), country singer and songwriter Brad Paisley writes his childhood self a letter, giving the little guy some pieces of advice based on experience….
Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 7 Assignment Case Study Analysis Case Study and Your System of Ethics This case study is due end of Week 7. Please plan to begin your research and writing this week. This assignment has three main sections, as follows. + Select an organization that has dealt with significant…
Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 5 Assignment Utilitarian Case Study Philanthropist for a day~ If you have not read our lesson this week about utilitarianism and its main proponent, John Stuart Mill, you should do so before beginning this assignment. You’ll play a starring role: you act as a philanthropist, with part of…
Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 4 Assignment Academic Scholarship The Ethics of Duty Deontological ethics concerns itself primarily with duty. We hear a lot about duty today, from duty to family to duty to country. Most of us feel a sense of duty when we see human destruction in the natural world, from…
Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 3 Assignment Social Contract Analysis The Social Contract in Action This week, we study the concept of the social contract (the agreement between a given group of people about how they will function in relation to one another). Although few media explicitly mention a social contract, much coverage…
Question ETHC445 Principles of Ethics Week 2 Assignment Ethical Dilemma Analysis Ethics and Religion There’s no religion without ethics; for most of the world’s people, there’s no ethics without religion. Religious principles are the basics upon which a religion is founded. The Jewish and Christian Ten Commandments’ “Thou shalt not kill”-or is it instead…
