Write an essay that critically and productively explores either (i) an ethical problem that you propose or (ii) one philosophical concept or ethical problem that we have covered in class.
• Your goal is to answer this question:
How can this concept be beneficial for a contemporary analysis
of ethics within our current society?
• You can base your response to this question on
(i) contemporary social or political issues or
(ii) a figure (or text) from the history of philosophy or
(iii) something that stems from your own personal experience
as an ethical and political subject.
You must use at least one text that we have covered in class thus far.
– “Seven Threats to Ethics”
– Aristotle, “Nicomachean Ethics”
– Plato, “What is the Value of Justice?”
– St. Thomas Aquinas, “The Natural Law”
– Hobbes Thomas Hobbes, “The State of Nature”
• The final format of your essay must be double spaced, use standard
1-inch all-around margins, and 12-point Times New Roman font.
Please write your name on each page in the heading with a page
number.
• Anything that appears under two pages or over three pages will not
be read. I will deduct 10% off of your final midterm grade and return it
to you for a re-write. Your footnotes or endnotes can be as long as you
like.
• As I’ve been saying thus far this semester, there are two fundamental
tasks to pursue when critically reading philosophy:
(i.) figuring out what the author is saying and,
(ii.) assessing whether it is right or not. These two tasks are crucial for
your midterm assignment. Of course, it is essential that part (i.) be
done well for the entire essay to be successful. However, this part of
your essay should be written in a manner that is especially concise
— and certainly no more than half the length of the entirety of your
essay.
• It is important to provide sufficient and strong evidence for your
interpretative claims (including textual evidence) regarding the text.
Additionally, providing examples in a powerful manner can often
bolster your argumentation/creative analysis for the original aspects
of the assignment.
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