Week 3 Virtue Ethics DQ

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Description:

For this forum, choose one of the following

topics to respond to for your initial post.

When you respond to your peers please

respond, if possible, to a learner who has

posted a contrary view on the topic you

selected and then, at a minimum respond to

at least one learner who has posted on the

topic you did not select.

Topic A: Eastern Ethics and Natural Law

Do some research on one of the Eastern

systems and then compare it to either

Aristotle’s virtue theory or Aquinas’ Natural

Law Theory in terms of which seems more

reasonable. Which seems more coherent

and able to be followed and which might

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help a person formulate a plan that would

produce more morally acceptable behavior.

Topic B: Anthropocene Extinction

The research is dire; we may well be in

what many are calling the Anthropocene

Extinction. Below is one section of a larger

report on what the Institute of Public Policy

Research is calling an environmental crisis.

Imagine you are in a position of authority,

what realistic actions could a virtuous leader

take to address this crisis? How, exactly,

would those actions help the situation?

Alternatively, assemble research arguing

that there is no crisis or that it is just too

late, and we should accept our fate and ride

this right into extinction.

Laybourn-Langton, Laurie, Lesley Rankin &

Darren Baxter. “The Scale and Pace of

Environmental Breakdown.” Institute for

Public Policy Research (IPPR), 2019, pp. 9–

15, THIS IS A CRISIS: FACING UP TO THE

AGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL BREAKDOWN,

www.jstor.org/stable/resrep21894.5

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