Social Science - Philosophy homework
Write answers to both of the questions given below. Write as many double-spaced pages as it takes you to answer the questions sufficiently. The minimum requirement is 1,500 words for each question.
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Essay Question 2: Discuss what can we learn from Fairphone and from Douglas Rushkoff, in Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus (especially in Chapter 5, pages 228-232), about how to implement the “post-growth climate mitigation scenarios” that Jason Hickel and others talk about in this article ( PDF #1):
Essay Question 3: Write an essay on how moral theory determines whether euthanasia is ethical or not, drawing upon your study this semester of life issues. Do you think a doctor could omit to give antibiotics to a disabled child and plead that s/he foresaw the death but did not intend it? Give two examples — one in which euthanasia is the motive, and one in which it is not — and use the Principle of Double Effect (“PDE”) to evaluate the morality of the doctor’s actions in each example: see the PDF #2 (on Moodle) of David Oderberg, Applied Ethics, page 80 (note: Oderberg’s discussion of this question begins on page 74, and “PDE” is mentioned on page 76). PDF #2 (on Moodle):
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