The essay must be a minimum of 500 words plus a Works Cited page. The essay must be formatted in standard MLA format: 1” margins, Times New Roman font, 12-point font, double-spaced, pages numbered at top right with last name, first page formatted with information and centered title. Citations should be parenthetical and follow MLA conventions.
Students should decide on three elements to successfully complete the assignment:
Identify your own ethical framework from the basic list below.
Choose an ethical framework different from your own (hereafter, the “alternate” framework.)
Compare and contrast your framework with the alternate framework and identify three points of disagreement. Defend your framework against the alternate’s objections to your framework by framing counter-arguments.
Within the paper, use three ethical dilemmas as examples to show the different decisions made by yours and the alternate.
MAJOR ETHICAL THEORIES AND FRAMEWORKS
act utilitarianism
Kantian ethics
Divine command theory
Aristotelian virtue ethics
Stoicism
Ethical hedonism
Cyrenaic (radical) hedonism
Epicureanism
Mohist ethics (state consequentialism)
Eudaimonic consequentialism
Objective virtue ethics (Nussbaum)
ethical relativism
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