PHI 208 week 2 DQ 1

  

Ashford 3: - Week 2 - Discussion 1

 

Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
 

     

Week   Two Discussion 1

 This week you will have two discussions.  Your Instructor will be choosing the discussions questions and posting them as the first posts in the discussion forums. The requirements for the discussion this week are a minimum of four posts on four separate days. The total combined word count for all of your posts, counted together, should be over 600 words. Be sure to answer all the questions in the prompt and to read any resources that are required to complete the discussion properly. In order to satisfy the posting requirements for the week, please complete your initial post by Day 3 (Thursday) and your other posts by Day 7 (Monday).  We recommend that you get into the discussion early and spread out your posts over the course of the week.  Be sure to reply to your classmates and instructor.  Try to attempt to take the conversation further by examining their claims or arguments in more depth or responding to the posts that they make to you.  Keep the discussion on target and try to analyze things in as much detail as you can.

     

Week 2, discussion 1: Peter Singer on animal     rights 

Instructor Larson

6/6/2015 6:09:02 AM

     

Peter Singer argues that there     is no moral justification for denying moral consideration to non-human     animals.
    Can you give a principle and reason as to why our ethical consideration     should include all humans, even those without the ability to reason, yet     still be denied to all non-human animals? (Or if you cannot, explain why     you find that you cannot.)
    What response might he have to your own way of drawing the line between     types of beings that should get ethical consideration and those that should     not? Should there be such a line?  
 

    Respond to these questions with careful reasoning in your own thread and     engage others in discussion through the week around these problems by     adding considered points and questions to the forum.
 

    Note: In many cases in replies to topics of this sort in Ashford courses,     students have referred to religious scripture as evidence.  Keep in     mind that if you want to appeal to such positions, these still need to be     explained and defended with reasons.  Simple appeals to authority,     whether they be religious or not, are not sufficient reasoning.      Appeals to any religious source should be expressed in terms that connect     with reasons beyond the bounds of religious dogma.