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• PHI 208 Entire Course ( 4 Papers for each
  Assignment, 2 Finals DQs Quiz)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• Ethical Questions. Please read these assignment
  instructions before writing your paper, and re-
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  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 (Just
  War Military Ethics)
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• Ethical Questions. Please read these assignment
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  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)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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
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• PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Slavery)
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• 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.

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• PHI 208 Week 1 Quiz
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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
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• 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)
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• 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.

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• PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Primary Goal)
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• 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.

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• PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Singer and Moral
  Justification)
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• 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)
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• 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
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• 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?

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• PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
  Theory (Equal Pay for Equal Work)
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• 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 (Gender Equality Ethics)
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• 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
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• PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
  Theory (Just War Military Ethics)
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• 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
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• PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
  Theory (Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal)
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• 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
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• PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Hero)
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• 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).

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• PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kant Right Action)
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• 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 a motive other than that of a good will, and
  give reasons for why you think Kant is right

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• PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kants formulations)
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• 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.

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• PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Morally Permissible to
  lie)
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• 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
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• PHI 208 Week 3 Quiz
• 1. Question Michael Walzer
  argues that in the unique world of war, both
  morality and authority are

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• PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotle)
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• 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.

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• PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles account of
  eudaimonia)
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• 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.

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• PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles virtue
  ethics)
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• 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)?

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• PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (flourishing or
  successful life)
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• 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.

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• PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Impact on the
  Environment)
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• 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

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• PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (MacIntyre's account of
  practices)
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• 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.),

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• PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (virtuous soldier)
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• 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
  appropriate.

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• PHI 208 Week 4 Quiz
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• 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

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• PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Condition for men and
  women)
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• 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.  

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• PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (feminist ethical
  thinking)
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• 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.

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• PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Virginia Helds
  article)
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• 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? 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

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• PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Equal Pay for Equal
  Work)
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• 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)
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• 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 (Just War Military
  Ethics)
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• 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
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• PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Should Physician
  Assisted Suicide Be Legal)
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• 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
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• Overview

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• PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz
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• 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 Gilligans
  example from In a Different Voice, the child
  named Amy focuses on which aspect of the Heinz
  dilemma?

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