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Select a social justice movement and discuss how at least two ethical concepts listed below have been or could be used to create social change.What is their ethical motivation for joining together to elicit social change?

Ethics in Society power point Project

This assignment requires that you construct a PowerPoint presentation that explores the ethics behind a social justice cause or movement.

People join social justice movements to achieve equity, inclusion, and justice for entities such as humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment.

Select a social justice movement and discuss how at least two ethical concepts listed below have been or could be used to create social change.

Your presentation must address the following:

Briefly explain the history of the social movement.

What ethical problem are activists hoping to solve?

What is their ethical motivation for joining together to elicit social change?
Include at least two of the following ethical concepts:

Empathy
Beneficence
Nonmaleficence
Autonomy
Fairness
Justice
Motive
Consequences
Free Will
Determinism
Punishment
Natural Rights
Contractarian Rights
Equity
Duty
Welfarism
Retributivism
Speciesism

 

Describe a different human choice or action for each of the two perspectives, or describe the same choice from the standpoint of both perspectives at once). Do you think it is possible, as Kant did, to view human choice and action as being both free and caused, or was Kant mistaken, and are these positions mutually exclusive?

Disscussion 4

1. As part of a chain of causes and so, being determined by it. ( in metaphysics known as Determinism)

2. As standing outside a chain of causes (a metaphysical known as the Free Will thesis)

Provide a description of human choice that can be seen to exemplify both of the above perspectives. (Note you may either choose to describe a different human choice or action for each of the two perspectives, or describe the same choice from the standpoint of both perspectives at once). Do you think it is possible, as Kant did, to view human choice and action as being both free and caused, or was Kant mistaken, and are these positions mutually exclusive?