Category: Ethics

What is a time when you or someone you know experienced a clash between professional duties and familial duties?What moral values should have been used in that case? Why those values? What would social contract ethics have said to have done?

Discussion 3

For the initial post, address one of the following sets of questions:

What is a time when you or someone you know of experienced a conflict between duty to self and loyalty to the community? What would logical reasoning say should be done in that case? Why that? What would an Ethical Egoist say to do? Why would they say to do that? Note what you feel is the best course of action.

What is a time when you or someone you know experienced a clash between professional duties and familial duties?

What moral values should have been used in that case? Why those values? What would social contract ethics have said to have done?

Why would social contract ethics say that? Note what you feel is the best course of action.
Articulate and evaluate a time when you or someone you know saw personal obligations collide with national obligations.

How did that tension involve differing positions on a moral debate? Did those positions rely on any key moral theories? If so, how so? If not, why not? Note what you feel is the best course of action.

Analyze themes that reflect the human condition, such as economic, ethical, historical, personal, political, and/or social issues, discovered in literature. Focuses on elements such as plot, character, and conflict.In A Few Good Men, what was the right course of action for Dawson and Downey, and why is that course of action right?

Deontology & “A Few Good Men”

Analyze themes that reflect the human condition, such as economic, ethical, historical, personal, political, and/or social issues, discovered in literature. Focuses on elements such as plot, character, and conflict.

Demonstrates how literature reflects human ethics and values and thus has relevance to today’s
world.Within a closed society like the Marine Corps, there are strict rules about duty and honor that make independent thinking difficult.

In A Few Good Men, what was the right course of action for Dawson and Downey, and why is that course of action right? Use the philosophy of Deontology to support your argument. Remember that you can use a theory to support or contrast your ideas.

What would a divine command ethicist say is the moral thing to do here? Why would they say that? Do you agree with the divine command ethics? Why or why not?Evaluate what a natural law ethicist would say is right to do. Do you agree with them? Why or why not?

Discussion 2

For the initial post, address the following questions:

What would a divine command ethicist say is the moral thing to do here? Why would they say that? Do you agree with the divine command ethics? Why or why not?

Evaluate what a natural law ethicist would say is right to do. Do you agree with them? Why or why not?

Given what you said are the right things to do, what would an emotivist say about your positions and judgments? What role does subjectivity play here in determining what is ethical?

Define the four basic principles of ethical research: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Then explain how these four principles interrelate in the conduct of ethical research.

1. Define the four basic principles of ethical research: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Then explain how these four principles interrelate in the conduct of ethical research.

2. Explain the importance of conducting ethical research.

3. In addition to the most current APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, select one other ethics code from a professional social science association (preferably a different one than used in Written Assignment 3,  used Evaluation of APA Ethical Principles of Psychologist and Code of Conduct and National Association of Social Workers in Assignment 3 so don’t use those) Examine how both ethical codes interweave the four basic principles of ethics into their model for the appropriate conduct of research.

4. Select a research study that is different from the one you selected in Discussion Forum 4( The case is “Is Death a Dying Business?”. Sype (2018) in Discussion Forum 4 so DO NOT USE THAT ONE.) Then conduct an ethical analysis of the research study. Provide all pertinent identifying information along with the steps you made in conducting your analysis.

https://www.apa.org/ethics/code/

What was the situation? What did the dilemma involve?What would a subjective moral relativist say is the right approach to the dilemma? Why would that kind of relativist say that?

Week 1

For this assignment propose a scenario where you or someone you know are confronted with a moral dilemma relating to cultural diversity and multiculturalism.

Cultural diversity refers to religious, sexual, racial, and other forms of social difference. A moral dilemma is a situation in which one must make a decision between two or more options such that the options involve seemingly ethical and/or unethical conduct. Address the following questions:

What was the situation? What did the dilemma involve?

What would a subjective moral relativist say is the right approach to the dilemma? Why would that kind of relativist say that?

What would a cultural relativist say is the right approach to the dilemma? Why would that kind of relativist say that? Is that approach correct?

What did you the person confronting the dilemma decide to do? What moral justification did they give? Is that approach morally correct?

Was there an objective moral truth (the objectively right thing to do) in this situation? Why or why not?

Is it ethical for people to break pandemic rules and restrictions? Why or why not?

Final Position Paper

Ethics of breaking or ignoring pandemic related restrictions: One can argue that they are willing to personally take the chances to catch the virus by breaking pandemic related rules and restrictions.

However, this raises an important ethical question:

Is it ethical for people to break pandemic rules and restrictions? Why or why not? Questions to answer for this paper: — what do we owe each other? Is this as simple as willing to take solo risk? Does this impact only that one person? Society? Medical system (never know despite low risk could go bad)? Friends and family at risk? Risk of inadvertent asymptomatic transmissions to community/coworkers?

chose a position on the question you selected

Analyze the question using Kantian Ethics, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics,
and then argue in favor of your position using one of the above ethical theories (or any other covered in the class).

Analyze the animal protection movement’s attempts to improve the treatment of farmed animals in the last 30 years. Discuss where you think the movement is/was successful, and where you think the movement is failing/has failed and why. Discuss what you believe the animal protection movement’s public policy approach should be to this issue going forward.

Analyze the animal protection movement’s attempts to improve the treatment of farmed animals in the last 30 years. Discuss where you think the movement is/was successful, and where you think the movement is failing/has failed and why. Discuss what you believe the animal protection movement’s public policy approach should be to this issue going forward.

Identify and explain potential future possibilities for the campaign with these unused tactics.Have any of Spira’s tactics been deployed in fighting for animal rights in the issue and how so?

Use the lens of Henry Spira’s campaign tactics to analyze the ethics of Rodeos. Have any of Spira’s tactics been deployed in fighting for animal rights in the issue and how so? Have any of his tactics not been used?

Identify and explain potential future possibilities for the campaign with these unused tactics.

Have included a YouTube video where you can get a sense of Henry Spira’s campaign tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kip4XVDYlE

What makes it morally permissible to destroy a baby, but wrong to kill an adult? What properties must something have to be a person, i.e., to have a serious right to life?

What makes it morally permissible to destroy a baby, but wrong to kill an
adult? What properties must something have to be a person, i.e., to have a serious right to life?

At what point in the development of a member of the species
Homo sapiens does the organism possess the properties
that make it a person?

Does this conceptual truth follow from
the above analysis of the concept of a right?

What does it mean to speak of a “healthy” environment? How do analogies and metaphors of health color debate and policy in both the medical and the environmental arenas?

What does it mean to speak of a “healthy” environment? How do
analogies and metaphors of health color debate and policy in both the
medical and the environmental arenas?

What are the limits of technology and our obligations to future
generations in the use of scarce resources?

How does the concept of “nature” and the “natural” function in
ethical argument in medicine and the environment? Can nature serve
as an ethical standard or norm today, as it has traditionally in ethics?

How are rights and responsibilities to be balanced in the complex
interaction of economic interests, health needs, and environmental
concerns?