Ethc 445n - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapters 9, 10 • Lesson • Minimum of 5 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook) Instructions First, return to your topic chosen in the week three assignment. Answer this question: What are the personal and/or communal ethical factors that may be involved in determining the moral position of either side in that debate? Next, articulate and then evaluate the ethical positions using Kantian et...

Instructions For this week’s assignment respond to one of the following options, and include Option 1, 2, or 3 as part ofyour heading. Option 1: The rst option is to name and describe in detail a key specic and recent healthcare technology. What are at least two key moral problems this technology creates? What are the proper moral guidelines fordealing with it in your view? Compare your approach to what an utilitarian and ethical egoist would say (eachindependently). Option 2: In the second...

Week 6: Ethics in Human Relationships Week - Discussion Topics Topic Applying Rand's Objectivism (graded) Working Conflict Resolution Methods (graded) Q&A Forum (not graded) Applying Rand's Objectivism (graded) Ayn Rand’s Objectivist philosophy has been touted by her detractors as the philosophy of self-interested selfishness. Her four epistemological principles are: 1. Metaphysics: Objective reality of the world and the objects in it. 2. Epistemology: Re...

Initial Post Instructions Rather than living in chaos, danger, and the hostility of our neighbors, we find ways to live together. It isn't easy, but can we avoid doing so? If everybody has self-interest in their own welfare and safety, then everybody also has self- interest in the welfare and safety of others. Self-interest involves community interest, and we must think about what we are willing to give up in order to get that safety and stability for ourselves, our families, our community, o...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 5, 6 • Lesson • Minimum of 2 scholarly sources (in addition to the course textbook) Ebook uploaded below: Rachels, S., & Rachels, J. (2019). The elements of moral philosophy (9th ed.). Instructions This assignment is the first step in a three-part project. You only need to focus on part one at this point. Each step will build on earlier steps. However, it is not a matter of providing a roug...

ETHC 445 Week 5 Discussion & Follow-up; Kant s Ethics and Our Duty Introduction Kant's famous First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative reads, "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." Kant taught morality as a matter of following maxims of living that reflect absolute laws. "Universal" is a term that allows for no exceptions, and what is universal applies always and everywhere. Don't forget about the second f...

ETHC 445N: Principles of Ethics Week 1 Assignment: Cultural Relativism and Moral Action

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 11 • Lesson • Minimum of 2 scholarly sources Instructions Develop, in detail, a situation in which a health care worker might be confronted with ethical problems related to patients and prescription drug use OR patients in a state of poverty. • Your scenario must be original to you and this assignment. It cannot be from the discussion boards in this class or any other previous forum. •...

ETHC445N Week 8 Assignment: YourPersonal Moral Theory Introduction In this session, you have been considering moral-ethical dilemmas you yourself faced or that you know of thatyou either resolved or failed to resolve, but hopefully learned from. You may never have given much thought toethical theory nor what ethical premises/paradigms you have unconsciously held. You will be focusing on this case for this assignment: Jane Doe is a nursing student at University X. Jane is in week eight of a c...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter12 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Introduction Each person owes a duty to himself or herself and to the world to study ethics and to engage in thoughtful debate about what is right, and what is wrong. It is this habit of thinking about and reflecting on ethics that will help you determine the right choices when faced with an ethical dilemma. Initial P...