paper draftassignment

1. Readings:     The Dalai Lama “Ethics and the New Genetics”           http://www.mccc.edu/pdf/esl135/ethics%20and%20the%20new%20genetics.pdf                     

                             Marshall Poe, “The Hive”        

           http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/09/the-hive/305118/                                               

   2.The rough draft must have at least two body paragraphs and introduction with a working thesis.

   3.Two body paragraphs need to have something from each author in each body paragraph. that is one from Dalai Lama and another one is from Poe.

   4.Essay Question:

In a unified essay citing both authors and having an overall point of your own, answer the following question:

How can a system of ethics be developed when knowledge itself is becoming socially constituted?

   5.Things to think about:

Is ethics possible without transcendent truths? Does Wikipedia threaten the idea of “truth,” or can its collaborative model be used to create the ethical system the Dalai Lama calls for?