Ethics

Use the case above, depending upon your focus. 1. Run through the “W’s and H” list, as best you can. 2. For “Who’s whispering in your ear?” (What do philosopher say?), choose TWO philosophers from Chapters 10, 11 or 12. Write through what that philosopher would say are the key considerations. 3. HINT: The “If (philosopher name) were sharing your office” sections will be very helpful in thinking through the philosophies. 4. Be sure to tell and defend your decision in “How’s it going to look?” Explain which philosopher’s approach was more influential than the other in your decision. 5. Submit by 11:59 a.m. Monday, July 20. (That is: Turn it in before Monday’s class.) Use the TurnItIn link below. You do NOT have to answer all the “Thinking it through” things below each case. Follow the instructions above. Doing Ethics in Media: Theories and Practical Applications – is the book for the philosophers and the class

” Submit your Individual Essay here it is worth up to 80 points and will be graded the way all the essays are graded: 50% for content, understanding of the issue and a well organized review or opinion essay, and 50% for composition: grammar, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, etc. Using MacKinnon, Barbara, Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues 8th edition. ” You may review the topic, or you may choose an area of the topic to write and take a point of view if you like. The point of the assignment is for all of us to think ethically about an issue. If you think you already have your mind made up about the topic, force yourself to take another look and to evaluate it in light of what you have learned about ethical theories in this course. That is part of what higher education is all about

Discuss 2 ethical theories, such as virtue theory, deontology, or consequentialism. Identify and discuss 2 qualities of each theory that are important to health care professionals. Apply ethical principles to situations which challenge one’s own principles.

Discuss your thoughts about the ethical issues raised. What would be your course of action in that situation? Your supervisor asks you to get involved in therapeutic situations that are beyond your scope of training and experience because they think students learn best by “just jumping in.” The supervisor frequently asks trainees to work with families, lead groups alone, and work with children regardless of coursework the trainee has completed or whether the trainee has any experience in those areas.

The paper should be 8-10 pages and focus on the topic, why it is important, how it is viewed, what you think, what you think the future might be, etc. No formal requirements

Robert Nozick’s Entitlement Theory of Justice In this section of the course we turn to libertarian justice, a view of distributive justice that rivals Rawls’ liberal vision of justice. Libertarian justice is distinguished by the importance it attaches to private property and by its opposition to what it sees as the coercive tax policies of the modern liberal state. One of the foremost expositions of libertarian justice comes from Robert Nozick, a colleague of Rawls at Harvard University, who, in Anarchy, State and Utopia, argued for what he termed an entitlement theory of justice. Nozick’s entitlement theory draws heavily on the Kantian idea that people should never be used as mere means to an end and on John Locke’s conception of private property. To learn more about this theory and its Kantian and Lockean influences, we turn again to Michael Sandel’s lectures on justice. Sandel’s lecture on justice: Lecture # 5 explores the idea of negative rights and the ethical significance of the freedom to choose, while Lecture # 6 considers Nozick’s famous ‘self-ownership’ argument, one of the foundations for his view that mandatory taxation aimed at promoting the welfare of others is an instance of governments treating their own citizens as ‘mere means to an end.’ Libertarian Justice Once you have listened to the Sandel lecture you should be ready to go to Nozick’s own words, in an excerpt taken from Anarchy, State and Utopia. This excerpt includes Nozick’s view on the jsutification of the minimal state, as well as his Entitlement Theory, for holding private property: http://econ2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ362/hallam/Readings/Nozick_Justice.pdf Discussion Topic 1. What is the difference b/w Nozick’s and Rawls’s interpretation of the concepts of ‘rights’ and ‘desert’? 2. Critique or defend one of these interpretations with respect to distributive justice.

Examine a case that involved product safety or deceptive advertisement. Explain the facts, determine ethical issues, determine why the business did what it did and summarize what the business should have done to resolve the issue.

three short videos link https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/intersectionality-movements-dolores/intersectionality-movements-dolores/ media literacy link https://library.concordia.ca/help/evaluating/evaluating-media.php Intersectionality Intersectionality is at the heart of feminist analysis. This chapter explores how different groups benefit from or are disadvantaged by institutional structures, as well as how overlapping categories of identity profoundly shape our experiences within institutions.

David Hume was a very influential philosopher who lived from 1711-1776. His perspective on ethics was quite different from those whom we have studied so far: he did not believe that ethics was something we could discover using reason. For Hume, reason tells us facts about the world, and ethics describes our feelings toward something that happens. For example, if I say “murder is wrong,” I have not discovered a fact about the world like “the earth orbits the sun.” What I am expressing is an emotion about murder: a bad feeling about it. Hume writes: “Take any action allowed to be vicious; wilful murder, for instance. Examine it in all lights, and see if you can find that matter of fact, or real existence, which you call vice. In whichever way you take it, you find only certain passions, motives, volitions, and thoughts. There is no other matter of fact in the case. The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. You can never find it, till you turn your reflection into your own breast, and find a sentiment of disapprobation, which arises in you, towards this action. Here is a matter of fact; but it is the object of feeling, not of reason. It lies in yourself, not in the object. So that when you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing, but that from the constitution of your nature you have a feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it.” (p. 158 in your textbook) If Hume is right, then the kind of analysis you’ve just been asked to do (using your reason to apply a theory to a particular moral situation) isn’t how morality works at all. While people like Kant and Bentham and Rawls thought that morality meant using our reason to analyze the situation, Hume didn’t think it played that role at all. Morality isn’t something we can find true answers about; it’s just an expression of how we feel. Think about the work you did for this module in the light of Hume’s critique of morality based on reason. Do you agree with Hume? Why or why not? Discussion Assignment Instructions: To complete this assignment, you must first read the Discussion Assignment Instructions thoroughly.

• Week 8 – Applying Ethical Theories Presentation Week 8 – Applying Ethical Theories Presentation DUE: Jul 26, 2020 11:55 PM Grade Details Grade N/A Gradebook Comments None Assignment Details Open Date Jun 1, 2020 12:05 AM Graded? Yes Points Possible 100.0 Resubmissions Allowed? Yes Remaining Submissions Unlimited Attachments checked for originality? Yes Assignment Instructions Course Objective: CO3 Create a framework for developing one’s own ethical and moral philosophy. ________________________________________ Description: For this assignment you will identify a current ethical issue from those provided, and analyze it from the perspective of Mill’s utilitarianism, Kant’s deontological ethic, and Aristotle’s virtue ethic. Conclude your presentation by defending one of these approaches. You can use the same ethical theory that you used for your Final Paper, or you can use a different one. Format & Expectations: The format will be a PowerPoint presentation incorporating all of the “best practices” demonstrated in the Best Practices presentation in the Supporting Materials. You have the choice of using short, embedded audio clips (no more than 1-2 minutes per slide) to narrate your presentation, or using speaker’s notes. Your presentation should consist of 10-12 slides, including an introductory slide and a reference slide. Submit the presentation as an attachment. For grading expectations, please see the iRubric for this assignment. Note that Sakai has a 50mb limit for uploads. Review the website and the 9 minute video below! https://www.slidegenius.com/blog/top-10-best-powerpoint-design-practices/ Life After Death by Powerpoint 2010 by Don McMillan http://youtu.be/KbSPPFYxx3o Topics: Please select your topic from the following list OR from the United Nations’ list of Global Issues at the link below. http://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/global-issues-overview/ • Abortion • Affirmative Action • Animal Rights • Civil Disobedience • Divorce • Euthanasia • Poverty • Terrorism • War Supporting Materials • MYERS Best Practices.pptx (1 MB)