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PHI 208 Entire Course ( 4 Papers for each
Assignment, 2 Finals DQs Quiz) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   This
Tutorial contains 4 Papers for each Assignment,
many DQs for each Week, Two Final Exam PHI 208
Final Exam 50 Questions (2 Set)
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PHI 208 Final Exam 50 Questions (2 Set) For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com  
This Tutorial contains 2 Set of Final Exam (50
Question each) Question 1. Question
Which of the following would be an idea shared
both by the teacher (Kevin Kline)  
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Equal Pay for Equal Work) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com Ethical
Questions. Please read these assignment
instructions before writing your paper, and re-
read them often during and after the writing
process to make sure that you are fulfilling all
of the instructions.
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Gender Equality Ethics) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   Ethical
Questions. Please read these assignment
instructions before writing your paper, and re-
read them often during and after the writing
process to make sure that you are fulfilling all
of the instructions. Please also utilize the
assignment guidance, the modeled example, and the
outline provided.
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions (Just
War Military Ethics) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Ethical Questions.
Please read these assignment instructions before
writing your paper, and re- read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the instructions.
Please also utilize the assignment guidance
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com     Ethi
cal Questions. Please read these assignment
instructions before writing your paper, and re-
read them often during and after the writing
process to make sure that you are fulfilling all
of the instructions. Please also utilize the
assignment guidance,
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (argument against
relativism) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   What do you believe is
the strongest argument against relativism that
was presented the readings for the week? Outline
the argument presenting the reasons the author
gives for thinking that relativism is inadequate.
Finally, discuss relativism with your classmates
in general.
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Mary Midgley and
James) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   What are some
relativistic beliefs that you have or that you
find in society? What are those ethical beliefs
and how do people justify those beliefs? Using
the articles from Mary Midgley and James Rachels,
present a critique of those relativistic beliefs.
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (ring of Gyges) For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   I
n the excerpt from the Republic the example of
the ring of Gyges is used to claim that humans
only act morally because of fear that they will
be caught. Present an example of someone being
morally good out of fear and then present an
example of someone being morally
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Slavery) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   Slaver
y has been practiced world-wide since the
earliest days of humanity and is still practiced
in parts of the world even today. Even the Bible
condones slavery. Yet today in America most
people think that slavery is absolutely morally
wrong.
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PHI 208 Week 1 Quiz For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     PHI 208 Week 1
Quiz 1. Question In Active and
Passive Euthanasia, Rachels claims that when
infants with Downs syndrome are denied necessary
operations, the reason is typically
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion (Understanding
Philosophy) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Using at least one
quote from chapter six of Understanding
Philosophy, describe the core principle of
utilitarianism and discuss the problem of the
tyranny of the majority. Find a real example
of a current or past social practice,
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (basic principle of
equality) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Singer reasons for
what he calls the basic principle of equality.
What is this principle and how is it supposed to
be applied? What reasoning does he give that this
principle should be applied to non-human animals?
Do you agree?  
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (Tom Regan and Peter
Singer) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Tom Regan and Peter
Singer disagree about the best approach to animal
ethics. What basic things do they agree about?
What do they disagree about? How would their
different views result in different conclusions
about how animals should be treated?
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 Peter Singer and
Animal Rights For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Peter Singer argues
that eating meat is speciesism because it
involves sacrificing the most important interests
of members of other species for relatively
trivial interests of our own species.
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Drones) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   After
watching the videos Drones are Ethical and
Drones are Not Ethical, provide at least one
argument to show that the use of drones can be
justified by utilitarian reasoning.
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Primary Goal) For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   I
f the primary goal of utilitarianism is to
generate the greatest good for the greatest
number, a secondary goal is to minimize
suffering. Using at least one quote from one of
the required readings, discuss the ways in which
these two principles
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Singer and Moral
Justification) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Singer argues that
there is no moral justification for denying moral
consideration to animals. Can you think of a good
moral reason why our moral consideration should
include all humans, even those without the
ability to reason,  
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Tom Regan) For
more course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com    
Tom Regan says that we all have equal inherent
value by virtue of being experiencing subjects
of a life. What does it mean to be an
experiencing subject of a life? Do you think
that being the subject of a life means that one
has equal inherent value?
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PHI 208 Week 2 Quiz For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   PHI 208 Week 2 Quiz 1.
Question According to the video
Meet Your Meat, which of the following is true
of how animals are slaughtered on factory
farms 2. Question In what way
does Peter Singer think that speciesism
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Equal Pay for Equal Work) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   Applyi
ng an Ethical Theory. Please read these
assignment instructions before writing your
paper, and re-read them often during and after
the writing process to make sure that you are
fulfilling all of the instructions.
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Gender Equality Ethics) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   Applying an
Ethical Theory. Please read these assignment
instructions before writing your paper, and
re-read them often during and after the writing
process to make sure that you are fulfilling all
of the instructions.
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Just War Military Ethics) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   Applyi
ng an Ethical Theory. Please read these
assignment instructions before writing your
paper, and re-read them often during and after
the writing process to make sure that you are
fulfilling all of the instructions.
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal)
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m   Applying an Ethical Theory. Please read these
assignment instructions before writing your
paper, and re-read them often during and after
the writing process to make sure that you are
fulfilling all of the instructions.
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Hero) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   Think
of someone real or fictional whom some people
regard as a hero for helping others, stopping
something bad or evil, and so forth, even though
by doing so they violated what would normally be
considered a moral rule (focus on morality
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kant Right Action)
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m   Kant famously states that the only thing good
without qualification is a good will. On this
basis, he holds that we can do the right action
but not out of a good will, and that only actions
done from a good will are morally praiseworthy.
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kants formulations)
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m   One of Kants formulations of the Categorical
Imperative says that one should always treat
humanity, whether in oneself or in another,
always as an end and never merely as a means.
Briefly explain what that means. Consider a
specific example from the world of business,  
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Morally Permissible to
lie) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Is it ever morally
permissible to lie to someone? Describe a
circumstance in which it seems that lying might
make more people happy than telling the truth.
Would lying be the right thing to do in that
circumstance, or is it our moral duty to tell the
truth,
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PHI 208 Week 3 Quiz For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   PHI 208 Week 3 Quiz
1. Question Michael Walzer
argues that in the unique world of war, both
morality and authority are 2. Question
Nagels argument in War and Massacre that
hostility or aggression should be directed  
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotle) For more
course tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   Aristo
tle says that the virtues are necessary for
humans to attain happiness, but he means this in
terms of something we might call flourishing or
living well, which he considers quite different
than simply feeling good.
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles account of
eudaimonia) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Is it possible for
individuals to flourish if others with whom they
are connected are not also flourishing? Consider
this with respect to Aristotles account of
eudaimonia, as well as the other readings and
media. Identify a community
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles virtue
ethics) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     An important aspect
of Aristotles virtue ethics is the idea that
virtues are habits that we acquire over time,
and like any habit, virtues affect not just what
we do, but our desires and emotions as well.
Focusing on either Hills article
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (flourishing or
successful life) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   What are two virtues
that you believe are important to living a
flourishing or successful life in either
Aristotles sense? Explain what goods in human
life these virtues enable their possessor to
fulfill. Provide examples of characteristic
behavior
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Impact on the
Environment) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Identify an area of
life that has an impact on the environment
(including non-human animals), and explain how
the possession or lack of virtue may make a
difference to how one conducts oneself within
that practice  
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (MacIntyre's account of
practices) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Referring to
MacIntyre's account of practices and virtue,
outline a practice in your own life that you
believe requires certain virtues in order to do
well. Explain what the practice is, what the
"internal goods" of the practice
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (virtuous soldier)
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m   What does it mean to be a virtuous soldier?
Identify three virtues that a soldier needs in
order to be an excellent soldier and then explain
why. Create a scenario that a soldier might face
during war or some other stressful event,
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PHI 208 Week 4 Quiz For more course tutorials
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1. Question In Ideals of Human
Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments,
Thomas Hill claims that a fruitful way to think
about the badness of destroying the environment
is
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Condition for men and
women) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Using the readings
and media from the week, explain how society
creates different conditions for men and
women.  Identify and explain at least two ways in
which society is structured
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (feminist ethical
thinking) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Describe the ethical
theory that you have studied in this course that
differs the most from what you consider to be
feminist ethical thinking. Utilizing the
readings and media from the course, explain
specific components
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Virginia Helds
article) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Using Virginia
Helds article Feminist Transformations of
Ethical Theory as a foundation, explain three
things that you did not know about feminist
thought that you found interesting and/or
informative. What were those things?
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Equal Pay for Equal
Work) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Final Paper. Due by
Day 7. Please read these assignment instructions
before writing your paper, and re-read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the instructions.
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Gender Equality
Ethics) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Final Paper. Due by
Day 7. Please read these assignment instructions
before writing your paper, and re-read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the instructions.
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Just War Military
Ethics) For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Final Paper. Due by
Day 7. Please read these assignment instructions
before writing your paper, and re-read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the instructions.
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Should Physician
Assisted Suicide Be Legal) For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com   Final Paper.
Due by Day 7. Please read these assignment
instructions before writing your paper, and
re-read them often during and after the writing
process to make sure that you are fulfilling all
of the instructions.
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PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz For more course tutorials
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1. Question In Feminist
Transformation of Moral Theory, Virginia Held
claims that which abstract concept has guided the
development of Western ethics?
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