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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
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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)  
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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
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Gender Equality/Ethics) For more classes
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Please read these assignment instructions befor
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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
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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 instructio
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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
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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
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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
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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
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PHI 208 Week 1 Quiz For more classes
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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
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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
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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?  
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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
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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   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,
provid
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.com   App
lying 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
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  PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kant Right Action)
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Kan
t famously states that the only thing good
without qualification is a good
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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
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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.  Then, offer your own perspective.  If
you agree with Kant, consider and respond to an
objection to his view.  If
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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
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  PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles account
of eudaimonia) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Is it possible for
individuals to flourish if others with whom they
are connected
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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
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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
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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
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (MacIntyre's account of
practices) For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.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
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (virtuous soldier)
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Wha
t 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
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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 badness of destroying the
environment is
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Condition for men and
women) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om   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
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (feminist ethical
thinking) For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.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. 
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Virginia Helds
article) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com   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
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  PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Equal Pay for Equal
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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 (Gender
Equality/Ethics) 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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Ethics) 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 (Should Physician
Assisted Suicide Be Legal) 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 Quiz For more classes
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Quiz     1.         Question         In
Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory,
Virginia Held claims that which abstract concept
has guided the development of Western ethics?
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