Scruples” Assignment Students shall personally write and upload “A Question of Scruples” (“Scruples”) question by the deadline noted at the end of the syllabus. The “Scruples” question should present a short moral or ethical dilemma. Following the question (the “Scruples card”), the student should then describe why the question is in fact a moral or ethical dilemma and then analyze and resolvethe situation using at least one of the standard ethical schools discussed in the course: (1) Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics (virtue ethics); (2) Bentham and Mill’s Utilitarianism; (3) Kant’s deontological Ethical Formalism or the Natural Law of Cicero, Aquinas and Rousseau; or (4) the “Ethic to Live By” described in the text(s). Note that using an existing question is not acceptable; the question must be original and written by the student. The submission should be written in three paragraphs:
- (1) all of the facts creating the original ethical or moral dilemma (Facts);
- (2) reasoning why the facts in the first paragraph have created an ethical or moral dilemma (Explanation); and
- (3) a solution to the ethical or moral dilemma using and clearly tied to one of the schools of ethical thought (Analysis and Resolution).
Maximum length of assignment including “Scruples” question and analysis is two (2) typed, single- or double-spaced pages.
