Philosophy - Ethics
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ethics_hw.docxPlease answer all four of the questions below. (Do NOT retype the question on your paper.) Simply type your answer corresponding to questions 1,2,3 and 4. Each essay must be one full typed page each, double-spaced in Times New Roman, size 12 font. Be sure to label your paper with your name, the date and course section number ALL on the first top line. You will be PENALIZED for using more than one line for this data.)
Due date: Monday, June 29, 2015 at 11:00 am.
*** See attached for the lecture notes.
You have worked very hard throughout your undergraduate career and have earned a 4.0 GPA. With your grades, extra curricular activities and social connections you are a shoe-in to be admitted to Yale Law School. The only thing necessary to secure your admission is to perform exceptionally well on the LSAT. After studying for the exam for several months you go to sleep the night before the exam to be sure you are well rested. At 3:30 am you are awaken by a phone call from your roommate of three years who has woken up alone in their car on the highway after a night of partying. Your roommate is still highly inebriated and unable to drive home. Your roommate gives you an address to pick them up at a location that is a 90 minute drive away. If you don’t agree to pick them up your roommate says they will try to drive home on their own. What is the most moral thing to do?
1) According to the “Ethics of Care” critique, what considerations should you make in deliberating this dilemma. What might be a “Caring” ethical solution?
2) Personally, how would you address this situation? Is your solution to this dilemma more aligned with “individual ethical egoism” and universal “ethical egoism”?
3) How might an ethical egoist resolve this dilemma? What virtue (good) might come from taking the ethical egoist approach? Are there times when the ethical egoist approach is morally appropriate?
4) Is this ethical dilemma culturally relevant? What cultures would support picking up your roommate? What cultures would support not picking up your roommate, opting to rest to be prepared for the exam.
