What would you do if you had a ring-like Gyges had? On what would you base your morality if given the opportunity to act under a cloak of invisibility?

The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 banned the buying and selling of human organs. However, the law still allows people to be compensated for “donating” blood, sperm, or eggs. Reproduction clinics often direct their marketing at female college students who are likely to have the traits desired by couples

Summarize the reading and provide a brief response. Use personal experience and anecdotes and personal opinions to engage with the topic 350 to 450 words

Chapter 12 Journal: There is a maximum of 1500 characters. 1. Give a clear example of each of the following: lying, cheating, breaking promises, stealing, white lies, and acts of commission and omission 2. What is the “domino argument,” and how does it apply to the four moral issues described

Chapter 11 A. Consider the ethical problem of Maggie and her math test. What is the difference between the first and second scenario in regards to how you assess her moral culpability? Explain how her actions could be considered cheating or not. How are her actions, in either scenario, morally

1. Discuss if mercy death is significantly different from mercy killing. Or, in certain situations is mercy killing morally preferable? Give reasons for your answer. 2. Is mercy killing morally justified in all or only under circumstances? Give reasons for your answer. 3. Analyze one of the issues dealing with

Americans are living longer than ever before, living with chronic pain and suffering that might not, at least for some, make that life worth living. The example of Admiral Nimitz and his wife, for example, is one of two people of sound mind choosing to end their lives. Can suicide

Worldview paper. What is my worldview, and how did i come to this perspective? Give a rational account of his or her understanding of reality. Questions that may be addressed in this paper are: What is prime reality?-the really real? What is the nature of external reality, that is, the

1.    Compare virtue ethics to both consequentialist and nonconsequentialist approaches. Of the three, which is the best and why? 2.    What is “care ethics”? Can justice and care be integrated? 3.    Are you a relativist? Explain why or why not, making sure that you look at arguments for and against.

Journal 9:  There is a maximum of 1500 characters. 1.       To what extent do you believe that the United States, as a nation, follows the five basic principles? Does it follow other principles? Explain. 2.       What is your moral position on the issue of suicide? How would you justify this

Examine a system of ethics or moral code with which you are quite familiar (e.g., your religion’s code of ethics, your family’s code of ethics, or your desired profession’s code of ethics), and describe the extent to which any or all of the five basic principles described in this chapter

Part A Journal: Motivations behind Decisions. There is a maximum of 1500 characters. 1.      Discuss the extent to which you think the rule “Rape is always wrong” is an absolute. Can there be any exceptions to this rule? Give reasons. 2.      Discuss the extent to which you believe the rule

Part A Journal: Motivations behind Decisions. There is a maximum of 1500 characters. 1.      Discuss the extent to which you think the rule “Rape is always wrong” is an absolute. Can there be any exceptions to this rule? Give reasons. 2.      Discuss the extent to which you believe the rule

Journal 6: Motivations behind Decisions. There is a maximum of 1500 characters. 1.      Under the moral system espoused by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, property was stolen and destroyed; countries were invaded, looted, and pillaged; and millions of innocent people were raped, mutilated, experimented upon, tortured, and murdered. Discuss

Read through the scenarios below. Choose 4 scenarios and answer the following questions.  If you use sources, remember to cite them in APA format.  You will type the scenario and your answers and upload them to CANVAS. What is the developmentally appropriate practice in each scenario? Explain your answer. What statements in NAEYC’s

Discussion Board How is it possible that people cannot be happy as long as they and everyone around them has the freedom to act as they choose? Provide examples in which someone else’s freedom has kept you from being happy. Share any restrictions on your happiness that have been intended

Journal 3: Motivations behind Decisions. There is a maximum of 1500 characters. 1.      The act nonconsequentialist theory allows one greater freedom in making moral decisions than other theories because it leaves moral decisions completely up to each individual’s own feelings. How free do you think individuals should be in their

Journal 2: Motivations behind Decisions. There is a maximum of 1500 characters. 1. Do you believe that human beings are teleological, which means they have a purpose? Explain why or why not. 2. Do you know anyone whom you think is an “ideal, virtuous person”? Describe that person’s character and

Levinas criticizes the traditional notions of identity as egoistic, engenders exclusion and violence. Grounding one’s thoughts in autrui refocuses on ethical relations and emphasizes responsibility and openness. His idea that “the essence of discourse is prayer” suggests a humbling and pleading with the other for understanding in truly communicative acts