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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)   PHI 208 Week 1
Assignment Ethical Questions (Physician Assisted
Suicide Be Legal)     
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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 utilize the assignment guidance, the
modeled example, and the outline
provided. Overview     
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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 also utilize the assignment guidance, the
modeled example, and the outline provided.
    
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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. Overview     
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (argument against
relativism)   For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.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?     
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Mary Midgley and
James)   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om   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.     
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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 the idea that morality is
inherent and based on universal principles or
virtues versus the idea that ethics is socially
created and varies based on human social and
political context.  Which do you find to be more
    
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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.
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. Yet
today in America most people think that polygamy
is absolutely morally wrong. We even have laws
against polygamy. Since the rest of time and the
world says we are 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 2.        
Question         In Active and Passive
Euthanasia, Rachels concludes that 3.        
Question         In Active and Passive
Euthanasia, Rachels argues that the     
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion (Understanding
Philosophy)   For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.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 outweighs the suffering
caused by the practice.       
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (basic principle of
equality)   For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.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?     
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (Tom Regan and Peter
Singer)   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
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?     
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 Peter Singer and
Animal Rights   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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. And one
argument to show that the use of drones cannot be
justified by such reasoning. Complete your post
by identifying which of these arguments you think
is the most compelling, and support your choice
with specific reasons.     
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Primary Goal)   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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
example that     
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Singer and Moral
Justification)   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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 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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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?     
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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.     
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Physician Assisted Suicide Be
Legal)   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om   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 someone innocent, or
even murdered, but done so with good intentions.
(Note this last part is     
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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.     
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kants
formulations)   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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 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 your examples with respect to
Kants theory,     
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Morally Permissible to
lie)   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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? 
Consider what Immanuel Kant would say, and
explain that with reference to this weeks
readings.     
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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 world of war,
both morality and authority are 2.        
Question         Nagels 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? 3.         Question         In War
and Massacre, Thomas Nagel argues that all rules
of engagement should be governed by the principle
that     
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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 flourishing.  However, imagine someone
that is deceitful, selfish, greedy,
self-indulgent, and yet enjoys great pleasure and
    
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles account of
eudaimonia)   For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.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 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 pertaining
to the individual (for instance, the right to
free speech or to pursue monetary gain), in order
to promote the flourishing of the group within
that context?      
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles virtue
ethics)   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com   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
article or Robinsons article, how might this be
important when discussing environmental ethics or
military ethics (focus your discussion on just
one of those, but feel free to discuss the other
in reply to other peoples posts)? How would a
virtue ethicist reply to someone who says that
they wish they could do more to express concern
for the environment or be more courageous, but
are too weak willed to do that?  Use examples
from the assigned media when appropriate. 
    
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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 examples of characteristic
behavior that manifests these virtues, and
contrast that with behavior that displays a lack
of virtue.  Do your examples confirm Aristotles
view that a virtue is a mean between extremes of
excess and defect?  If so, explain what those
extremes are if not, explain why.  Refer to this
weeks readings and media to illustrate and
support your claims.      
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Impact on the
Environment)   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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,     
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