Identify the issue
What is the major moral or ethical issue you wish to raise?
In what situation does thie issue come up?
What are the major factual issues to support alternate conclusions?
Talk about how history and culture relate to this issue.
Outline the Options
What are the alternatives? What policy might be adopted?
What does the public say?
Are there any facts that have not been adequately considered.
What approach works: Absolutism, relativism (which form), objectivism, self-interest and egoism, religious based decision? Why do other positions not work?
Evaluate the Arguments
Talk about the importance of each of your arguments versus others, such as the principle of self interest may or may not be more important than the issue of protecting the nation or your family, or you may see that as one and the same, or you may think that truth is not as important as justice.
Now look for fallacies or logical errors. Every time you put a logical fallacy in your paper, points are deducted.
This is the information the teacher gave us for the paper
Further instrutions include,
a. Highlight a contemporary personal or social
ethical issue
b. Provide a discussion of at least two
relevant ethical theories related to that issue. Impartially presented and
fairly discussed.
c.
Explore the ways in which those ethical
theories address the issue and discuss how ethical theories contribute to your
understanding of the issue
d.
Discuss
critiques of those theories offered by others and provide your own assessment:
What do these theories add? What limitations do they present?
e.
Provide a reasoned argument for your
opinion about how you believe one ought to respond to the issue and try to
figure out which ethical theorist shares your perspective.
f.
Explore your consistency: If you adopted
that ethical theory broadly, would you be comfortable or would you need to use
or develop another ethical theory to make what you believe to be ethical choices in other areas of your
life.
Properly articulate both arguments of Immigration in a moral/ethical way
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