reading response

Week 3 Reading Response

Prepare your answers using MS Word or PDF file. Submit your Reading Response to D2L. Be sure your name is at the top of the document. Call this Reading Response #3.

Due date: Thursday, April 16, to D2L by 11:30 pm. This assignment will be graded and is worth 25 points. This is your first of four Reading Responses to be submitted. Do not fail to do submit on time – it’s a bad habit and it’s worth 25 points.

1. From Birsch, Chapter 7, answer questions 1 (the first part of #1 only), 2, 5–9, & 13. Notice: there are 8 (eight) questions to be answered for part 1. You should number these 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 and 1.13

2. From Birsch, Chapter 7, identify the strengths and weaknesses of the moral rights (as claim rights) ethical theory.

When asked to summarize, your answer should include from 2-3 healthy paragraphs.

3. Summarize Rawls’ two principles of justice from section 4.3 of Rawls’ Theory of Justice.

Wenar, Leif, "John Rawls", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/#TwoPriJusFai/

Note, you may have to copy and paste URL into your browser.

4. From the reading, summarize John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/freedom-speech/

5. From the reading, summarize Joel Feinberg's Offense Principle. see link for #4

6. How is Feinberg’s Offense Principle different from Mill’s Harm Principle?

7. Write 2 paragraphs discussing how John Locke’s life and times influenced his philosophy. Possible source: John Locke, http://www.history.com/topics/john-lock e

8. Write 2 paragraphs discussing how Joel Feinberg’s life and times influenced his philosophy.

One possible source: Joel Feinberg, 77, Influential Philosopher, By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/us/joel-feinberg-77- influentia lphilosopher.htm l

Lastly: list any References you used in composing your Reading Response #3. Can be listed within your answers or at the end of your work.

Remove the paragraph in RED at the top of this assignment before you submit your work to D2L. Note also: The philosopher’s name is John Rawls. The possessive of John Rawls name can be written two different ways, both are acceptable but be sure to choose one.

John Rawls’ Theory or John Rawls’s Theory