2 Assignments by Friday at 3 pm EST or before if possible

Written Assignment - Response to Current Issues

Identify and describe a current issue (this could be a controversy or just an issue of importance) in American Government. Explain in 1-2 pages how one of the modern philosophers we've studied would respond to that issue.

USE JOHN RAWLS AS THE MODERN PHILOSOPHER FOR THIS PAPER

Rawls is the most historically recent political philosopher we study in this course, having just passed away in 2002. As a political philosopher, much of his focus is on justice. His primary argument is that "most reasonable principles of justice are those everyone would accept and agree to from a fair position." It is not uncommon for his philosophies to be applied to current issues, whether controversial or not. Arendt was presented the National Humanities Medal in 1999 by former President Bill Clinton who suggested Rawls had helped a generation of Americans restore their faith in democracy.