Category: Ethics

critical summary of the Turnbull essay, “The Function of Maps.”
Summarize the main point/s that Turnbull is making. (They Say)What argument is he making about discourse? (I Say) What do you learn about discourse and its relationship to power?
Remember to use examples from the text.
For this assignment format your paper in MLA.

Skills demonstrated in this assignment
SLO 1,2,3
Core Ethnic Studies Competencies Bullets: 2, 3, 4
Objective 1
Objective 2
Remember that a Critical Summary has the following parts (Parts are not the same as paragraphs):
Intro with a thesis
They Say– Summary of the author’s main points
I Say– Your ideas about the author’s main points
Conclusion

How do the ideas of feminism or the ethics of care interact with other social justice causes; e.g., anti-racism, queer rights, or disabled rights?
What is the difference between equity and equality? How is this distinction tied into the idea of feminism?
Is it possible to eliminate the concept of gender? Can you imagine what the world might look like without this concept?

Use your own ideas but also incorporate (or at least don’t ignore) anything relevant from the reading. Answer this question or “Option 1 about the Justification of Punishment”. Except that: Students who have taken a previous ethics course from me should answer the “Alternative question for Week 7: Active versus Passive Euthanasia.”
Read this selection from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov Download this selection from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov that makes the case that no one, not even God, can or should forgive a person for a harm that person did to another — that one can only forgive a person for a harm that person did to oneself. 1) Do you think that is true or not? Why or why not? 2) Are there criteria that are individually necessary and jointly sufficient for someone to deserve forgiveness or that make it right to forgive someone, or is forgiveness just up to anyone to forgive another for any reason s/he decides or any way s/he feels? 3) Is there any way a person who has murdered an innocent person can deserve forgiveness, if forgiveness is something that has criteria that can make it deserved? Why or why not? 4) If you choose not to let another person’s wrong or terrible actions “consume you” or “eat you up with venom and anger” and keep you in a state of anger or frustration, but instead you choose to put it out of your mind and “go on with your life”, is that to “forgive” the person? Why or why not? 5) If out of a sense of love for all other human beings, you immediately say you forgive someone who has wronged you, even terribly, is that actually forgiving them? Why or why not?
To try to make this easier for you, consider a fairly easy, non-emotional kind of case and see whether you can figure out what you should do to deserve forgiveness and then try to generalize from there. Consider the following: your dog gets out of your yard and goes into the neighbor’s yard and poops on his driveway and tears up some of his flowers in a flower bed. What do you need to do in order to deserve forgiveness for this? There are at least four things. What are they? Generalize then about any wrongdoing. And, can a different neighbor forgive you for what your dog did to this neighbor’s yard? Why or why not?
I do not have this book
The Required Textbook is DOING ETHICS By Lewis Vaughn. It is an excellent book with many good articles. I will also supply free supplementary material. You can use the 4th, 5th, or 6th (eText) edition:
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Judge the medical case studied in class during Week 8 in the Discussion Board. In the video, philosophers applied the three major ethical principles you learned in this class: Kant’s Categorical Imperative, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics. In a five paragraph essay, apply ONE ethical theory to decide the moral course of action in the medical case of the premature twins studied in class. Apply the ethical theory in each paragraph to support your arguments throughout the entire essay. Not using the ethical theory results in an automatic zero. Using more than one ethical theory results in an automatic zero. (50 points) You have 4 hours to complete this exam. You only have ONE attempt to complete this exam.

After studying the course materials located on Module 7: Lecture Materials & Resources page, answer the following:
Cure / care: compare and contrast.
Basic care: Nutrition, hydration, shelter, human interaction.
Are we morally obliged to this? Why? Example
Swallow test, describe; when is it indicated?
When is medically assisted N/H indicated?
Briefly describe Enteral Nutrition (EN), including:
NJ tube
NG tube
PEG
Briefly describe Parenteral Nutrition (PN), including:
a. Total parenteral nutrition
b. Partial parenteral nutrition
Bioethical analysis of N/H; state the basic principle and briefly describe the two exceptions.
Case Study: Terry Schiavo (EXCEL FILE on Module 7: Lecture Materials & Resources page). Provide a bioethical analysis of her case; should we continue with the PEG or not? Why yes or why not?
Read and summarize ERD paragraphs #: 32, 33, 34, 56, 57, 58.

Submission Instructions:
The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation, and misspelling.
If references are used, please cite properly according to the current APA style. Refer to your syllabus for further detail or contact your instructor.
attached are the resources and
video:

Overview:
As you have seen in this week’s required resources, cultural factors and biases affect the decisions we make about ethical issues. This is true for us, and it is also true for characters in books, movies, and television shows. Now you will take time to reflect on an ethical issue that you have encountered in a movie, book, or television show. For instance, Disney offers a variety of media that have examples of ethical ideologies.
Directions
In this short paper, you will explore how cultural factors and biases affect decision making regarding ethical issues.
Specifically, you must address the following:
Describe a Western, Eastern, or Indigenous Tribal ethical issue from a movie, book, or television show.
Be sure to specify whether the example is a Western, Eastern, or Indigenous Tribal ethical issue.
If the example contains elements of more than one ethical ideology (Western, Eastern, or Indigenous Tribal), be sure to specify what the ethical ideologies are.
Describe how you see bias affecting the decisions the characters made in your example.
Be sure to state what you think the bias is.
Remember that bias can be positive or negative. Everyone has bias.
Explain what cultural morals and values appeared to be guiding the decisions the characters made about the ethical issue.
Be sure to give examples to support your opinion.
What to Submit:
Submit your paper as a one- to two-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Use at least one source to support your short paper. Follow APA citation guidelines when citing sources both throughout and at the end of your paper.

Please answer discussion questions numbers 1 and 2 at the end of chapter 1. The responses should be prepared in a narrative form The discussion questions will help to assess what you learned in Chapter 1.
1.Critically examine the reasons for studying ethics discussed in this chapter, modify as needed, and offer additional ones.
2.Critique these statements:
*A technically incompetent manager is as unprofessional as an ethically incompetent one.
*An ethically competent manager will be working on technical competence; the opposite may not be true.
*Ethical competence may be more important, harder to come by, and more difficult to recognize than technical competence.
“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.”—Alistair Cooke

After studying the course materials located on Module 5: Lecture Materials & Resources page, answer the following:
Name some very important organs that are not vital organs.
List the functional descriiption of all the normal vital organs, including today’s exceptions.
Is it possible to live without a vital organ? Why? Example?
Distinction between assisting or substituting vital organs. Bioethical analysis.
Do the following practices assist or substitute the vital organ? Why?
Dialysis
Respirator
Ventilator
Tracheotomy
CPR
Read and summarize ERD PART FIVE Introduction.
Unconscious state: Definition.
Clinical definitions of different states of unconsciousness: Compare and contrast
Benefit vs Burden: bioethical analysis.

Submission Instructions:
The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation, and misspelling.
If references are used, please cite properly according to the current APA style. Refer to your syllabus for further detail or contact your instructor.

Explain the difference between the public and private spheres;
2) Why is there so much controversy relative to religion in the public sphere?; and
3) What do you think about this?
HELPFUL LINKS:
Casanova, Jose. Public religion in the modern world, Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1994. Accessed May 1, 2016. http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy1.apus.edu/docview/233615726?pq-origsite=summon.
Habermas, Jürgen. “Religion in the Public Sphere.” European Journal of Philosophy, vol.14, no 1 (2006). Accessed July 19, 2019. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2006.00241.x.
Marx Karl. On the Jewish Question. 1844. Accessed May 1, 2016. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
Mendieta, Eduardo, Vanantwerpen, Jonathan (eds.). The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. Essays by BUTLER, HABERMAS, TAYLOR, and WEST, New York, Columbia University Press, 2011. Accessed May 1, 2016. http://www.roeduseis.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Judith_Butler_J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas_Charles_Taylor_BookZZ.org_.pdf.
Rawls, John. “The idea of public reason revisited.” Chicago Law Review, vol.64, no. 3 (1997). Accessed July 19, 2019. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5633&context=uclrev.

1) In Dale Jacquette’s work, A Dialogue on the Ethics of Capital Punishment, chapter three explores the conditions for the right to life. What are they? What do you think about them?
2) What does retribution mean to you? Is capital punishment just retribution? Why?