PHI-205-315: Moral Choices Forum 2
| Question # 49558 | Writing | 9 months ago |
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INSTRUCTIONS
General Instructions:m Introduce yourself, then relate to the Philosophy of Language article (first under Lessons) ini paragraph 3. STICK TO THE PARAGRAPH FORMAT AND SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS.
You must post your responses to forum questions twice in this course: Start in the Homework folder under Lessons, then after posting your 5+1paragraphs (see just below) in the dropbox there (NOT in the comments box - you may paste it in or upload a .doc/.docx/.pdf/.rtf file there (No .pages, Google docs or any other format). Review the SafeAssign report there. It will flag the quoted passage(s) in it, but if cited effectively, that's fine. Fix anything else; the program allows you to check your work. I'm trying to "catch" you, but given this functionality to help you not make or leave an error here, uncited quotes and paraphrases left uncorrected will be considered plagiarism. (please only use quotes to support what you are submitting - what you are thinkig is what you are trying to express here, not just pasting others' ideas into assignments.) Then copy and paste what you posted into the Homework Dropbox into the Discussion Board Forum accessible through the Calendar or the link on the left of your Blacklboard screen. Follow the Homework/forum posting 5 paragraph format: 1. Objective Summary, 2. Focus objectively on something particular, per specific instructions 3. Relate these readings to previously studied course material. 4. Reflect on the above subjectively, in your own terms - this part is graded for your considering not the content. 5. Compose a Discussion Question; one that cannot be answered in a word or sentenece, but must be responded to with a discussion. -- You must cite at least one quote from the assigned reading in each posting. After others have posted, post paragraph +1 Response. Respond critically (not negatively, but substantively, analytically - AND YOU MAY NOT USE LIKE/DISLIKE OR AGREE/DISAGREE WITH regarding a posting by another student) to a class mates posting. Your 5 paragraph posting is due on the date listed. Your response to another's posting in the forum is due 2 days later. Do not forget to add your response posting in the forum board into the dropbox under homework, or better, post it first into the dropbox, review as above, then cut and paste it into the discussion board as a response to the other's posting. All of this applies top all subsequent forum activity for this course.
Lateness, failure to include a cited quote and to exclude an uncited references will impact or disqualify your grade.THESE GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS APPLY TO ALL SUBSEQUENT DRAFT FORUMS.
Review the SafeAssign report for this before you paste into the discussion forum.
Then copy and paste into the corresponding discussion board.
Specific forum instructions (ONLY APPLIES TO PARAGRAPH 2 - ALL OTHER PARAGRAPHS AND RESPONSES ARE ABOUT ALL OF THE READINGS/TOPICS SINCE THE PREVIOUS DISCUSSION FORUM) THIS FIRST ONE, YOU CAN USE THE TYSON VIDEO AND PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE ARTICLE AS "PRIOR READINGS"
Specific instructions: (Address and defend a conclusion about one of these questions below (pick one the fewest number of classmates have done):
A. Explore both a strength and a weakness of involving any religion in morality. Differentiate between necessary and common relationships between ethics and religion. What do Vaughn's ideas suggest is the most defensible relationship between the two?
B. What does the emotivism and the "moral isolationism", as explored in Midgley's article, Trying Out One's New Sword, have in common with religious morality?
C. How is it that relativist frameworks can seem to be tolerant in some cases, but completely intolerant in others?D. How can egoism not entail selfishness? Can one make rules for just oneself, if the one bound by the rules is the one making and changing them?E. Argue for the advantages of act-based-utilitarianism and for rule-based uitilitariansim. Which is more viable for individuals, and/or for societies? Can consequentialism setup durable rights, duties or principles that actually can withsatnd being stressed by practuical considerations?F. How has natural law been both natural and non-natural? How does it relate to biological/psychological/evolutionary ethical approaches? What is 'natural'?
G. How can Kant's ethics be both necessary and impossible?
H. Is it possible that the only standards for virtue or morality are the way people who are regarded as virtuous act/would act, without collapsing into subjectivism? Can virtue ethics be contectually or locally objective (or something like objective) even if not generally or universally so?I. What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of a character-based approach like Aristotle's in relation to behavior-based approaches like Mill's and Kant's? Which is better in which way, and how?J. How is care based ethics not a theory? To what extent does care ethics converge with virtue ethics, while maintaining which different grounds?K. Critically relate these additional approached to ethics to the main approaches presented in the textbook. How do they address what's lacking in the others, if they do? Do these (and other) additional approaches help or hinder understanding ethics?L. Consider the difference between deliberate reasoned ethical judgments and reflexive, felt moral responses through the lense of the theories/frameworks we've studied, and the criteria considered to evaluate them. Argue for what would be essential to include/do/consider in any ethical dilemma or moral solution plan. And what to avoid. What sort of balance between contrary elements is defensible?
