Category: Ethics

INSTRUCTIONS
Begin your paper with a brief introductory paragraph that clearly states your goals, thesis, and
method. State what metaethical theory you are defending, the issue in applied ethics you are
addressing, the conclusion(s) you want to defend.
Next, provide a lengthy and detailed defense of the metaethical theory you defended in
Discussion: Compare and Contrast Metaethical Theories (Natural Law Theory) This will likely reflect what you
argued for in your thread and the feedback that you received from the professor and/or
classmates who responded to your thread. Here you can go into much more detail than you could
in the discussion, which was limited to 600 words. This section of the Capstone Essay Assignment would be roughly half
of your paper (three to four pages).
Next, proceed to the applied ethics issue that you discussed in your Discussion: Ethical
Application thread (Stem-cell research). Here you should greatly expand upon your argument. Add detail, nuance,
and argumentation, providing a fairly complete and comprehensive application based on the
theory you defend in the first half of the paper. You may illustrate the application with real-life
examples, but please do not fill your paper with anecdotes. You should anticipate possible
objections to your approach to the issue and respond to them in an objective and informed
manner. (For ideas on how others might object to your approach, a good place to begin would be
your classmate’s reply to your thread, but you need not stop there. Many books and articles have
been published on issues in applied ethics, and these can provide a wealth of possible arguments
relevant to every issue.) You are encouraged to use quotes from sources as a way to support your
arguments, but quotes should not make up more than one and a half pages of your essay.
Your conclusion should reflect what you have argued in your thesis. It should recap what you
have accomplished and how you have accomplished it.
This paper is not required to utilize any sources outside of those that were used in the class (the
two textbooks, the videos, and the PointCast presentations), but use of additional resources is
permitted and encouraged. At the minimum the paper should utilize the resources from the class.
All resources used must be listed in the bibliography and any resources quoted, paraphrased, or
alluded to must be documented via footnotes formatted according to Turabian. Sources such as
Wikipedia and online dictionaries do not count as academic sources and should not be used.
Biblical references are encouraged, but will not count as an academic source.
Class textbooks are “Moral Choices” by Scott Rae, and “Talking About Ethics” by David Farnham, Michael Saxon, and Mark Jones.

Videos to watch

– After watching the videos and reading the chapter, explain how you could utilize the information to be a better ethical communicator in your organization.

After watching Fighting Indian Film, we will have a class discussion on this discussion board. I want you to hear your perspective, ideas, and impressions of the video on this discussion board. Here are some questions that can help with answering the discussion board questions. What surprised you the most about the mascot debate? Why do you think there is much pride in picking a Native American mascot? Why do you think sports team fans fight so hard to keep a Native American as a mascot, even if the Native American community says it is offensive to them? What was the most important lesson you took from the mascot debate? Response to the video and question should be 200-250 words responses

Throughout the semester, each student is writing a 6- to 7-page essay in which you explain and defend your stance on an applied ethical issue related to your possible future profession.
Before submitting your final, complete paper, you are writing this essay in three partial drafts throughout the semester. Your instructor will provide feedback on each of these partial drafts that you hand in. The final draft of this paper is due by the end of Unit 8.
In Unit 2, you wrote section two of the paper. In Unit 4, you wrote section three of the paper. This Unit, you are writing section four of the paper. For instructions on the partial draft that is due this Unit, open the “PHIL 2300 Unit 6 AS – Third Partial Draft of Paper.pdf.”
AS Instructions: To see the complete instructions for the partial draft that is due this Unit, open “PHIL 2300 Unit 6 AS – Third Partial Draft of Paper.pdf Download PHIL 2300 Unit 6 AS – Third Partial Draft of Paper.pdf.” To see complete instructions on all drafts due throughout the rest of the semester, open “PHIL 2300 All Drafts of Paper Guideline.pdf. Download PHIL 2300 All Drafts of Paper Guideline.pdf.”

After watching Fighting Indian Film, we will have a class discussion on this discussion board. I want you to hear your perspective, ideas, and impressions of the video on this discussion board. Here are some questions that can help with answering the discussion board questions. What surprised you the most about the mascot debate? Why do you think there is much pride in picking a Native American mascot? Why do you think sports team fans fight so hard to keep a Native American as a mascot, even if the Native American community says it is offensive to them? What was the most important lesson you took from the mascot debate? Response to the video and question should be 200-250 words responses

Throughout the semester, each student is writing a 6- to 7-page essay in which you explain and defend your stance on an applied ethical issue related to your possible future profession.
Before submitting your final, complete paper, you are writing this essay in three partial drafts throughout the semester. Your instructor will provide feedback on each of these partial drafts that you hand in. The final draft of this paper is due by the end of Unit 8.
In Unit 2, you wrote section two of the paper. In Unit 4, you wrote section three of the paper. This Unit, you are writing section four of the paper. For instructions on the partial draft that is due this Unit, open the “PHIL 2300 Unit 6 AS – Third Partial Draft of Paper.pdf.”
AS Instructions: To see the complete instructions for the partial draft that is due this Unit, open “PHIL 2300 Unit 6 AS – Third Partial Draft of Paper.pdf Download PHIL 2300 Unit 6 AS – Third Partial Draft of Paper.pdf.” To see complete instructions on all drafts due throughout the rest of the semester, open “PHIL 2300 All Drafts of Paper Guideline.pdf. Download PHIL 2300 All Drafts of Paper Guideline.pdf.”

Stage One of the Ethical Analysis Essay – Create an Outline
Instructions: The purpose of this assignment is to write an outline as the first step of the Ethical Analysis Essay that is due near the end of the term. The Ethical Analysis Essay requires that you analyze a film’s ethical dimensions that include its characters and the story.
First, select a film from the list of available works. If you cannot access these films, you may select a different film, but you will require prior approval from your instructor.
Films for Ethical Analysis Essay
John Q (2002) – Story centers on a man whose nine-year-old son desperately needs a life-saving transplant. When he discovers that his medical insurance will not cover surgery costs and alternative government aid is unavailable, John Q. Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage in a final attempt to save his child.
The Jacket (2005) – A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor’s experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia.
The Last King of Scotland (2006) – While in Uganda on a medical mission, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician and close confidante of dictator Idi Amin. Although at first Dr. Garrigan feels flattered by his new position of power, he soon realizes that Amin’s rule is soaked in blood, and complicit in the atrocities. Garrigan faces the fight of his life as he tries to escape Amin’s grasp.
My Sister’s Keeper (2009) – Told from multiple perspectives, My Sister’s Keeper follows the story of 13-year-old Anna Fitzgerald as she sues her parents, Brian, and Sara, for medical emancipation. Anna was conceived as an allogeneic donor for her sister, Kate, who has acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).
Extraordinary Measures (2010) – John Crowley is a man on the corporate fast-track, with a beautiful wife and three children. Just as his career is taking off, he learns that his two youngest kids have a fatal disease. John leaves his job and devotes himself to saving their lives. He joins forces with Dr. Robert Stonehill, a brilliant but eccentric scientist. Together they battle the medical and corporate establishment, racing against time for a cure.
Contagion (2011) – When Beth Emhoff returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.
Awakenings (1990) – The story of a doctor’s extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson’s disease at the time.
Coma (1978) – A young doctor in a hospital discovers that many patients are being induced into comas from simple routine surgeries. She soon finds a deep conspiracy developing that leads her to believe that nothing is as it seems. The comas are deliberate acts to permanently incapacitate patients who are later transferred to a facility called The Jefferson Institute where illegal activities are being conducted with comatose subjects.
Extreme Measures (1996) – A young British doctor confronts a famous colleague about the true methods of his work. The doctor wishes to determine why the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears.
Gattaca (1997) – Vincent Freeman has always fantasized about traveling into outer space but is grounded by his status as a genetically inferior “in-valid.” He decides to fight his fate by purchasing Jerome Morrow’s genes, a laboratory-engineered “valid.” He assumes Jerome’s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with Irene. An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer complicates Vincent’s plans.
Next, view the film and then write an outline. This outline should be written using the following subheadings (Introduction and Ethical Analysis). Write 2-5 sentences for each criterion (Introduction and Ethical Analysis). The outline be a minimum of 250 words in length.
Introduction (Film Synopsis & Ethical Theory)
Brief film synopsis that includes the medical ethical dilemma present in the film.
Ethical theory you have chosen to apply to the film. Select one (or more):
Virtue Ethics
Utilitarian Ethics
Moral Sense Theory (Conscience)
Social Contract Theory
The Ethics of Care
Kantian Ethics
Moral Relativism
Ethical Analysis
Moral values present in the film (as they relate to the ethical theory you have chosen)
Moral conflict or instances of moral values in conflict
Moral of the story or what can be learned from applying the ethical theory to the story
Always cite any sources that you have used within your work. For help with APA formatting and style, check out the assignment rubric and also refer to the Purdue Owl website, as well as the Academic Writer tool featured in Canvas.

Stage One of the Ethical Analysis Essay – Create an Outline
Instructions: The purpose of this assignment is to write an outline as the first step of the Ethical Analysis Essay that is due near the end of the term. The Ethical Analysis Essay requires that you analyze a film’s ethical dimensions that include its characters and the story.
First, select a film from the list of available works. If you cannot access these films, you may select a different film, but you will require prior approval from your instructor.
Films for Ethical Analysis Essay
John Q (2002) – Story centers on a man whose nine-year-old son desperately needs a life-saving transplant. When he discovers that his medical insurance will not cover surgery costs and alternative government aid is unavailable, John Q. Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage in a final attempt to save his child.
The Jacket (2005) – A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor’s experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia.
The Last King of Scotland (2006) – While in Uganda on a medical mission, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan becomes the personal physician and close confidante of dictator Idi Amin. Although at first Dr. Garrigan feels flattered by his new position of power, he soon realizes that Amin’s rule is soaked in blood, and complicit in the atrocities. Garrigan faces the fight of his life as he tries to escape Amin’s grasp.
My Sister’s Keeper (2009) – Told from multiple perspectives, My Sister’s Keeper follows the story of 13-year-old Anna Fitzgerald as she sues her parents, Brian, and Sara, for medical emancipation. Anna was conceived as an allogeneic donor for her sister, Kate, who has acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).
Extraordinary Measures (2010) – John Crowley is a man on the corporate fast-track, with a beautiful wife and three children. Just as his career is taking off, he learns that his two youngest kids have a fatal disease. John leaves his job and devotes himself to saving their lives. He joins forces with Dr. Robert Stonehill, a brilliant but eccentric scientist. Together they battle the medical and corporate establishment, racing against time for a cure.
Contagion (2011) – When Beth Emhoff returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia.
Awakenings (1990) – The story of a doctor’s extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson’s disease at the time.
Coma (1978) – A young doctor in a hospital discovers that many patients are being induced into comas from simple routine surgeries. She soon finds a deep conspiracy developing that leads her to believe that nothing is as it seems. The comas are deliberate acts to permanently incapacitate patients who are later transferred to a facility called The Jefferson Institute where illegal activities are being conducted with comatose subjects.
Extreme Measures (1996) – A young British doctor confronts a famous colleague about the true methods of his work. The doctor wishes to determine why the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears.
Gattaca (1997) – Vincent Freeman has always fantasized about traveling into outer space but is grounded by his status as a genetically inferior “in-valid.” He decides to fight his fate by purchasing Jerome Morrow’s genes, a laboratory-engineered “valid.” He assumes Jerome’s DNA identity and joins the Gattaca space program, where he falls in love with Irene. An investigation into the death of a Gattaca officer complicates Vincent’s plans.
Next, view the film and then write an outline. This outline should be written using the following subheadings (Introduction and Ethical Analysis). Write 2-5 sentences for each criterion (Introduction and Ethical Analysis). The outline be a minimum of 250 words in length.
Introduction (Film Synopsis & Ethical Theory)
Brief film synopsis that includes the medical ethical dilemma present in the film.
Ethical theory you have chosen to apply to the film. Select one (or more):
Virtue Ethics
Utilitarian Ethics
Moral Sense Theory (Conscience)
Social Contract Theory
The Ethics of Care
Kantian Ethics
Moral Relativism
Ethical Analysis
Moral values present in the film (as they relate to the ethical theory you have chosen)
Moral conflict or instances of moral values in conflict
Moral of the story or what can be learned from applying the ethical theory to the story
Always cite any sources that you have used within your work. For help with APA formatting and style, check out the assignment rubric and also refer to the Purdue Owl website, as well as the Academic Writer tool featured in Canvas.

Explain the underlying presuppositions (beliefs/arguments) of socialism and opposing rights-based free enterprise viewpoints. Argue which viewpoint you think is ethical/more ethical and explain why. Identify points of your argument that might be challenged, and briefly introduce a way you might respond. Be sure to carefully define your terms. You are expected to support your position with rational arguments, fitting examples, course material, and any additional sources of expertise that are relevant.

Précis A key skill in philosophy is the ability to critique an argument, but you must first be able to correctly
and succinctly describe the argument at hand. Hence, you will write a brief summary (précis) of one of
two articles (Altman or Arthur) from the free speech topic of no more than 500 words. Start by asking:
what is the conclusion of the article? then work your way backwards to understanding the reasons given
for the conclusion. Finally, write a succinct and purely descriptive (i.e., not evaluative) essay. I sent you the reading on Altman, thank you Make sure to have citations as well from the book and to paraphrase and not quotes.