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PHI 208 Entire Course ( 4 Papers for each
Assignment, 2 Finals DQs Quiz) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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)
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PHI 208 Final Exam 50 Questions (2 Set) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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
Emperors Club, and by either MacIntyre or
Aristotle (or both)?
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Equal Pay for Equal Work) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Gender Equality/Ethics) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions (Just
War Military Ethics) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (argument against
relativism) For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.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
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Mary Midgley and
James) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (ring of Gyges) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Slavery) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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
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PHI 208 Week 1 Quiz For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com PHI 208 Week 1
Quiz     1.         Question         In Active
and Passive Euthanasia, Rachels claims that when
infants with Downs syndrome are denied necessary
operations, the reason is typically
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion (Understanding
Philosophy) For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.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)
that illustrates this problem.  Complete your
post by evaluating whether the overall good
generated by the practice out
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (basic principle of
equality) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
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 s
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (Tom Regan and Peter
Singer) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m 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?
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 Peter Singer and
Animal Rights For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.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?  
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Drones) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Primary Goal) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com 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
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Singer and Moral
Justification) For more classes
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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 should not?
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Tom Regan) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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?
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PHI 208 Week 2 Quiz For more classes
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Equal Pay for Equal Work) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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. Overview
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Gender Equality/Ethics) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Just War Military Ethics) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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. Overview
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Hero) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kant Right Action) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Kant
famously states that the only thing good without
qualification is a 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
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kants
formulations) For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com One of Kants 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
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Morally Permissible to
lie) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com I
s 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
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PHI 208 Week 3 Quiz For more classes
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Quiz       1.         Question         Michael
Walzer argues that in the unique
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotle) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.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
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles account of
eudaimonia) For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com Is it possible for individuals to flourish
if others with whom they are connected are not
also flourishing?  Consider this with respect to
Aristotles account of eudaimonia, as well as the
other readings and media.  Identify a community
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles virtue
ethics) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m An important aspect of Aristotles 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 Hills
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (flourishing or
successful life) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com What are two virtues
that you believe are important to living a
flourishing or successful life in either
Aristotles sense?  Explain what goods in human
life these virtues enable their possessor to
fulfill.  Provide
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Impact on the
Environment) For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.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
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (MacIntyre's account of
practices) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.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
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (virtuous soldier) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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 Robinsons article, Magnanimity and
Integrity as Military Virtues, where
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PHI 208 Week 4 Quiz For more classes
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Quiz     1.         Question         In Ideals
of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural
Environments, Thomas Hill claims that a fruitful
way to think about the badn
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Condition for men and
women) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (feminist ethical
thinking) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
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 compon
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Virginia Helds
article) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om Using Virginia Helds 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
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Equal Pay for Equal
Work) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Gender
Equality/Ethics) For more classes
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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.
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Just War Military
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m 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.
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Should Physician
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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.
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PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz For more classes
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Quiz     1.         Question         In
Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory,
Virginia Held claim
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