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Do we want health care professionals who are utilitarian or deontologist? Or are these theorist inadequate to the task of guiding medical professionals?

This essay will be based off Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics which can be found here: http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/aristotle/Ethics.pdf Prompt: present a brief evaluation of virtue ethics as a moral theory. After a short introduction, 1. Give a brief description of virtue ethics generally: what is it? What are its most essential features? You […]

Over the years many divisive issues have put philosophers on separate sides of a controversy. In this paper you are going to examine a famous controversy in philosophical history by looking at two different thinkers who took opposite sides on a philosophical issue. You will begin by explaining, with evidence […]

For this assignment, please summarize and explain, in your own words, Judith Jarvis Thomson’s article “The Trolley Problem.” Remember that anything that is word-for word from the article must be in quotes. 2-3 pages and please no outside resources.

The response papers has to be 300-600 words. The paper will be a report or summary in your own words of what the author is saying in the reading, ending with 1-2 paragraphs of personal commentary. Whatever you write must be solely in your own words, and must not be […]

You are required to write one 2000 word literature review that will consider one of the early dialogs of Plato and one book from Plato’s Republic. You will be asked to choose two texts that discuss a similar concept (i.e., the soul, reason, politics, ethics) and then compare the texts […]