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  1. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com

  2. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Entire Course ( 4 Papers for each Assignment, 2 Finals + DQs+ Quiz) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com This Tutorial contains 4 Papers for each Assignment, many DQs for each Week, Two Final Exam PHI 208 Final Exam 50 Questions (2 Set) PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions (Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal) PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical Theory (Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal)

  3. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Final Exam 50 Questions (2 Set) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com This Tutorial contains 2 Set of Final Exam (50 Question each) Question 1. Question : Which of the following would be an idea shared both by the teacher (Kevin Kline) from the clip of The Emperor’s Club, and by either MacIntyre or Aristotle (or both)?

  4. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions (Equal Pay for Equal Work) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Ethical Questions. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re- read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance, the modeled example, and the outline provided.

  5. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions (Gender Equality/Ethics) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Ethical Questions. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re- read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance, the modeled example, and the outline provided.

  6. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions (Just War Military Ethics) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Ethical Questions. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re- read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance, the modeled example, and the outline provided.

  7. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions (Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Ethical Questions. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re- read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance, the modeled example, and the outline provided.

  8. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (argument against relativism) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com What do you believe is the strongest argument against relativism that was presented the readings for the week? Outline the argument presenting the reasons the author gives for thinking that relativism is inadequate. Finally, discuss relativism with your classmates in general. What are some relativistic beliefs you have held? Do you believe that they can be justified or do you plan on reevaluating those beliefs now that you have learned more about relativism?

  9. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Mary Midgley and James) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com What are some relativistic beliefs that you have or that you find in society? What are those ethical beliefs and how do people justify those beliefs? Using the articles from Mary Midgley and James Rachels, present a critique of those relativistic beliefs. What reasons do you have for thinking that these beliefs are not consistent.

  10. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (ring of Gyges) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com In the excerpt from the Republic the example of the ring of Gyges is used to claim that humans only act morally because of fear that they will be caught. Present an example of someone being morally good out of fear and then present an example of someone being morally good out of an inherent desire to act in a specific way. Discuss with others the idea that morality is inherent

  11. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Slavery) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Slavery has been practiced world-wide since the earliest days of humanity and is still practiced in parts of the world even today. Even the Bible condones slavery. Yet today in America most people think that slavery is absolutely morally wrong. Polygamy has been practiced world-wide since the earliest days and is still practiced in parts of the world even today. Some major religions require polygamy. There are many holy men in the Bible who had multiple wives and concubines.

  12. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 1 Quiz 1. Question : In “Active and Passive Euthanasia”, Rachels claims that when infants with Down’s syndrome are denied necessary operations, the reason is typically: 2. Question : In “Active and Passive Euthanasia”, Rachels concludes that:

  13. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion (Understanding Philosophy) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Using at least one quote from chapter six of Understanding Philosophy, describe the core principle of utilitarianism and discuss the problem of the “tyranny of the majority.” Find a real example of a current or past social practice, (or create your own fictional example)

  14. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (basic principle of equality) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Singer reasons for what he calls the “basic principle of equality”. What is this principle and how is it supposed to be applied? What reasoning does he give that this principle should be applied to non-human animals? Do you agree? On what basis do you think we should determine which types of beings should be treated with equal moral consideration?

  15. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (Tom Regan and Peter Singer) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Tom Regan and Peter Singer disagree about the best approach to animal ethics. What basic things do they agree about? What do they disagree about? How would their different views result in different conclusions about how animals should be treated?

  16. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 Peter Singer and Animal Rights FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Peter Singer argues that eating meat is speciesism because it involves sacrificing the most important interests of members of other species for relatively trivial interests of our own species. Do you think Singer is correct or incorrect on this point? Is "speciesism" a real thing like racism or sexism? Why or why not?

  17. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Drones) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com After watching the videos “Drones are Ethical” and “Drones are Not Ethical,” provide at least one argument to show that the use of drones can be justified by utilitarian reasoning. And one argument to show that the use of drones cannot be justified by such reasoning.

  18. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Primary Goal) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com If the primary goal of utilitarianism is to generate the greatest good for the greatest number, a secondary goal is to minimize suffering. Using at least one quote from one of the required readings, discuss the ways in which these two principles are consistent or inconsistent with each other. If you think they are consistent, provide a real or imagined example that illustrates this consistency. If you think they are inconsistent, provide a real or imagined

  19. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Singer and Moral Justification) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Singer argues that there is no moral justification for denying moral consideration to animals. Can you think of a good moral reason why our moral consideration should include all humans, even those without the ability to reason, yet be denied to all non-human animals (some of whom have that ability)? What response might he have to your way of drawing the line between the types of beings that should get moral consideration and those that

  20. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Tom Regan) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Tom Regan says that we all have equal inherent value by virtue of being ‘experiencing subjects of a life’. What does it mean to be an ‘experiencing subject of a life’? Do you think that being the subject of a life means that one has equal inherent value? Does it follow from that view that animals should be given rights to life and freedom?

  21. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 2 Quiz 1. Question : According to the video “Meet Your Meat”, which of the following is true of how animals are slaughtered on factory farms 2. Question : In what way does Peter Singer think that speciesism is similar to racism and sexism? 3. Question : According to chapter 2 of Understanding Philosophy, utilitarianism is a form of what broader kind of ethical theory?

  22. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical Theory (Equal Pay for Equal Work) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Applying an Ethical Theory. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re-read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assign

  23. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical Theory (Gender Equality/Ethics) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Applying an Ethical Theory. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re-read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance and the outlined model provided.

  24. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical Theory (Just War Military Ethics) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Applying an Ethical Theory. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re-read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance and the outlined model provided.

  25. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical Theory (Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Applying an Ethical Theory. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re-read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance and the outlined model provided

  26. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Hero) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Think of someone real or fictional whom some people regard as a “hero” for helping others, stopping something bad or evil, and so forth, even though by doing so they violated what would normally be considered a moral rule (focus on morality; don't simply think of someone who broke the law). For example, they may have lied, broken a promise, stolen, harmed someone innocent, or even murdered, but done so with good intentions. (Note: this last part is crucial: make sure you explain what it was that they did that would otherwise be morally questionable. Also, it need not be someone you think is a hero.)

  27. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kant Right Action) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com good will. On this basis, he holds that we can do the “right action” but not out of a good will, and that only actions done from a good will are morally praiseworthy. Do you agree with Kant? Provide an example (real or made up) of someone doing a good thing but out of a motive other than that of a good will, and give reasons for why you think Kant is right, or why you think Kant is wrong that this action lacks moral value. Discuss the importance of the will and how one can attempt to create a good will.

  28. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kant’s formulations) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com One of Kant’s formulations of the Categorical Imperative says that one should always treat humanity, whether in oneself or in another, always as an end and never merely as a means. Briefly explain what that means. Consider a specific example from the world of business, either one that you have directly encountered or one you heard or read about, in which a company honored this principle, and consider another example in which a company failed to honor this principle. Be sure to clearly explain

  29. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com • PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Morally Permissible to lie) • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.phi208rank.com • Is it ever morally permissible to lie to someone? Describe a circumstance in which it seems that lying might make more people happy than telling the truth. Would lying be the right thing to do in that circumstance, or is it our moral duty to tell the truth, even then?

  30. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 3 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 3 Quiz 1. Question : Michael Walzer argues that in the unique world of war, both morality and authority are 2. Question : Nagel’s argument in “War and Massacre” that hostility or aggression should be directed at its true object means that which of the following would probably not be permissible?

  31. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotle) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Aristotle says that the virtues are necessary for humans to attain happiness, but he means this in terms of something we might call “flourishing” or “living well”, which he considers quite different than simply feeling good. Thus, according to Aristotle some people might feel that they are happy, but because they lack the virtues they are not truly flourishing. However, imagine someone that is deceitful

  32. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotle’s account of eudaimonia) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Is it possible for individuals to flourish if others with whom they are connected are not also flourishing? Consider this with respect to Aristotle’s account of eudaimonia, as well as the other readings and media. Identify a community or practice in which you are involved in which the flourishing of the individual is tied to the flourishing of others. Does this require that we limit certain rights

  33. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotle’s virtue ethics) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com An important aspect of Aristotle’s virtue ethics is the idea that virtues are “habits” that we acquire over time, and like any habit, virtues affect not just what we do, but our desires and emotions as well. Focusing on either Hill’s article or Robinson’s article, how might this be important when discussing environmental ethics or military ethics (focus your discussion on just one of those, but feel

  34. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (flourishing or successful life) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com What are two virtues that you believe are important to living a flourishing or successful life in either Aristotle’s sense? Explain what goods in human life these virtues enable their possessor to fulfill. Provide examples of characteristic behavior that manifests these

  35. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Impact on the Environment) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Identify an area of life that has an impact on the environment (including non-human animals), and explain how the possession or lack of virtue may make a difference to how one conducts oneself within that practice with respect to that environmental impact. In other words, when it comes to our relation to the environment, what attitudes and behaviors would be characteristic of a virtuous person,

  36. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (MacIntyre's account of practices) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Referring to MacIntyre's account of practices and virtue, outline a practice in your own life that you believe requires certain virtues in order to do well. Explain what the practice is, what the "internal goods" of the practice are and how they differ from certain"external goods" (such as money, prestige, power, etc.), and attempt to determine the virtues that one must have in order to excel

  37. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com • PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (virtuous soldier) • FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT • www.phi208rank.com • What does it mean to be a virtuous soldier? Identify three virtues that a soldier needs in order to be an excellent soldier and then explain why. Create a scenario that a soldier might face during war or some other stressful event, and explain what the virtuous soldier would do in the situation, and which specific virtues the soldier would demonstrate. Refer to the readings and media, including Robinson’s article, “Magnanimity and Integrity as Military Virtues,” where appropriate

  38. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 4 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 4 Quiz 1. Question : In “Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments,” Thomas Hill claims that a fruitful way to think about the badness of destroying the environment is: 2. Question : In the article “Magnanimity and Integrity as Military Virtues,” Robinson agrees with Aquinas’ idea that

  39. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Condition for men and women) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Using the readings and media from the week, explain how society creates different conditions for men and women. Identify and explain at least two ways in which society is structured such that men and women are treated differently and explain why this treatment is just or unjust. What is a potential feminist ethical response to this situation and which of the thinkers from the week relate to your justification for the response?

  40. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (feminist ethical thinking) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Describe the ethical theory that you have studied in this course that differs the most from what you consider to be feminist ethical thinking. Utilizing the readings and media from the course, explain specific components of the theories that demonstrate the differences between the theory you choose and feminist theory.

  41. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Virginia Held’s article) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Using Virginia Held’s article “Feminist Transformations of Ethical Theory” as a foundation, explain three things that you did not know about feminist thought that you found interesting and/or informative. What were those things? Why are they interesting or informative? How do they relate to the view that you now hold of ethics and how one can live a good life? Explain why you do or do not think that feminist ethics could be a fruitful transformation of ethical theory and practice in the Western tradition

  42. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Equal Pay for Equal Work) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Final Paper. Due by Day 7. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re-read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance and the outlined model provided.

  43. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Gender Equality/Ethics) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Final Paper. Due by Day 7. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re-read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance and the outlined model provided.

  44. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Just War Military Ethics) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Final Paper. Due by Day 7. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re-read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance and the outlined model provided.

  45. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Should Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com Final Paper. Due by Day 7. Please read these assignment instructions before writing your paper, and re-read them often during and after the writing process to make sure that you are fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also utilize the assignment guidance and the outlined model provided

  46. PHI 208 RANK Redefine the Possible / phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.phi208rank.com PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz 1. Question : In “Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory”, Virginia Held claims that which abstract concept has guided the development of Western ethics? 2. Question : In Carol Gilligan’s example from In a Different Voice, the child named Amy focuses on which aspect of the Heinz dilemma?

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