Choose 3 topics from different chapters. 6 pages, double-spaced, font 12. 1. Using concepts and theories introduced in this chapter, defend your own ideas about the ethics of euthanasia.
Illustrate. Use examples from your own experience, public cases, film, or 2. Explain the criteria for determining death and their importance; 3. Describe James Rachels’ active v. passive
euthanasia, killing and letting die, the principle of double effect, 4. Present the utilitarian and deontological arguments about suicide and killing
Abortion 1. Using concepts and theories introduced in this chapter, defend your own position about the ethics of abortion. Illustrate. Use examples from your own experience, public cases, film, or
2. Present the main disputes about the morality of abortion 3. Evaluate utilitarian and deontological moral arguments about abortion 4. Comment on Judith Jarvis Thomson’s defense of abortion
Sexual Morality 1. Using concepts and theories presented in this chapter, defend your own ideas about sexual ethics. Illustrate. Use examples from your own experience, public cases, film, or lit.
2. Present the main disputes about topics in sexual ethics 3. Evaluate utilitarian and deontological moral arguments about sexual ethics 4. Discuss natural law approaches to sexual morality
Economic Justice 1. Using concepts and arguments presented in this chapter, defend your own theory about economic justice. Present your view of an ideal society. Illustrate. Use examples from your
own experience, public cases, film, or lit. 2. Explain and comment on John Rawls’s modem liberalism theory of justice (the original position, justice chosen from behind the veil of ignorance). 3.
Present the nature of and difference between negative and positive rights. Which according to you, should have prior 1 new message
4. Present three morally commendable and morally questionable features of socialism; 2. of Ayn Rand’s/Robert Nozick’s