Instructions:
please make a full reference list if you use other writers` example or statement.
1. Please write a three- to four-page (double spaced, 12 point font, normal margins,
~1000 words) essay on one of the following two topics. Bring a draft of this essay to
tutorial on February 10th for workshopping. Your final essay is due in lecture on
February 17th.
2. Do NOT put your name on the paper. Instead use your Banner (B00…) number.
3. We prefer to receive hard copies in class on Feb 17.
4. Do NOT use a title page.
5. If you quote a passage from a paper we’ve read, make sure you cite the paper and the
page number. For example, if you quote a passage from page 154 of Hardin’s
“Lifeboat Ethics,” cite as (Hardin, 154). Also include a reference list at the end of the
document with all the papers you have cited (you can choose whatever format you’d
like as long as you’re consistent). A simple, acceptable example:
Hardin G. Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor. Course Textbook
Content:
Compare the ways in which a deontologist, an act-utilitarian, and a rule-utilitarian would be concerned with universalizability. Be sure to substantiate your claims with examples
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Comparison with Examples
The deontologist`s ethical underpinnings emanate from deontological ethics or deontology. This ethical position judges the morality or lack thereof of a problem based on rules. Thus, a deontologist`s action would be considered moral however objectionable if carried out in pursuit of one`s obligations or duty CITATION Kam07 l 1033 (Kamm, 2007). The act utilitarian conceptual basis stems from the utilitarian theory of act utilitarianism. An action is judged to be moral, if and only if, the performance of any other action would produce a similar amount of h
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