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PHI 208 Entire Course ( 4 Papers for each
Assignment, 2 Finals DQs Quiz) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   This
Tutorial contains 4 Papers for each Assignment,
many DQs for each Week, Two Final Exam  
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PHI 208 Final Exam 50 Questions (2 Set) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   This
Tutorial contains 2 Set of Final Exam (50
Question each)   Question 1.      Question
        Which of the following would be a
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Equal Pay for Equal Work) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Ethical Questions.
Please read these assignment instructions before
writing your paper, and re- read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the instructi
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Gender Equality/Ethics) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Ethical Questions.
Please read these assignment instructions before
writing your paper, and re- read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the instructions.
Please also utilize the assignment guidance, the
modeled example, and the
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PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions (Just
War Military Ethics) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Ethical Questions.
Please read these assignment instructions before
writing your paper, and re- read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the instructions.
Please
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  PHI 208 Week 1 Assignment Ethical Questions
(Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Ethical
Questions. Please read these assignment
instructions before writing your paper, and re-
read them often during and after the writing
process to make sure that you are fulfilling all
of the instructions. Please also utilize the
assignment guidance, the modeled example, and the
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (argument against
relativism) For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com   What do you believe is the strongest
argument against relativism that was presented
the readings for the week?  Outline the argument
presenting the reasons the author gives for
thinking that relativism is inadequate.  Finally,
discuss relativism with your classmates in
general. 
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Mary Midgley and
James) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  What are some relativistic beliefs that you
have or that you find in society?  What are those
ethical beliefs and how do people justify those
beliefs?  Using the articles from Mary Midgley
and James Rachels, present a critique of those
relativistic beliefs.  What reasons do you
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (ring of Gyges) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   In the
excerpt from the Republic the example of the ring
of Gyges is used to claim that humans only act
morally because of fear that they will be
caught.  Present an example of someone being
morally good out of fear and then present an
example of someone being morally good
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PHI 208 Week 1 Discussion (Slavery) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Slavery has
been practiced world-wide since the earliest days
of humanity and is still practiced in parts of
the world even today. Even the Bible condones
slavery. Yet today in America most people think
that slavery is absolutely morally wrong.
Polygamy has been practiced world-wide since the
earliest days and is still practiced in parts of
the
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PHI 208 Week 1 Quiz For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   PHI 208 Week 1
Quiz     1.         Question         In Active
and Passive Euthanasia, Rachels claims that when
infants with Downs syndrome are denied necessary
operations, the reason is typically
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion (Understanding
Philosophy) For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com   Using at least one quote from chapter six
of Understanding Philosophy, describe the core
principle of utilitarianism and discuss the
problem of the tyranny of the majority.  Find a
real example of a current or past
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  PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (basic principle of
equality) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com   Singer reasons for what he calls the basic
principle of equality. What is this principle
and how is it supposed to be applied? What
reasoning does he give that this principle should
be applied to non-human animals? Do you agree? On
what basis do you think we should
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 (Tom Regan and Peter
Singer) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m   Tom Regan and Peter Singer disagree about the
best approach to animal ethics. What basic things
do they agree about?  
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 1 Peter Singer and
Animal Rights For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com   Peter Singer argues that eating meat
is speciesism because it involves sacrificing the
most important interests of members of other
species for relatively trivial interests of our
own species. Do you think Singer is correct or
incorrect on this point? Is "speciesism" a real
thing like racism or sexism? Why or why not?
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Primary Goal) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   If the
primary goal of utilitarianism is to generate the
greatest good for the greatest number, a
secondary goal is to minimize suffering. Using at
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PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Singer and Moral
Justification) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Singer argues that
there is no moral justification for denying moral
consideration to animals. Can you think of a good
moral reason why our moral consideration should
include all humans, even those wi
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  PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 (Tom Regan) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Tom
Regan says that we all have equal inherent value
by virtue of being experiencing subjects of a
life. What does it mean to be an experiencing
subject of a life? Do you think that being the
subject of a
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PHI 208 Week 2 Quiz For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   PHI 208 Week 2
Quiz     1.         Question         According
to the video Meet Your Meat, which of the
following is true of how animals are slaughtered
on factory farms 2.         Question         In
what way does Peter Singer think that speciesism
is similar to racism and sexism?
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Equal Pay for Equal Work) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Applying an
Ethical Theory. Please read these assignment
instructions before writing your paper, and
re-read them often during and after the writing
process to make sure that you are fulfilling all
of the
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Gender Equality/Ethics) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Applying an Ethical
Theory. Please read these assignment instructions
before writing your paper, and re-read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the instructions.
Please also utilize the assignment guidance and
the
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Just War Military Ethics) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Applying an
Ethical Theory. Please read these assignment
instructions before writing your paper, and
re-read them often during and after the writing
process to make sure that you are fulfilling all
of the instructions. Please also utilize the
assignment guidance and the
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PHI 208 Week 3 Assignment Applying an Ethical
Theory (Physician Assisted Suicide Be Legal) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Applying
an Ethical Theory. Please read these assignment
instructions before writing your paper, and
re-read them often during and after the writing
process to make sure that you are fulfilling all
of the instructions. Please also utilize the
assignment guidance and the
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Hero) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Think of someone
real or fictional whom some people regard as a
hero for helping others, stopping something bad
or evil, and so forth, even though by doing so
they violated what would normally be considered a
moral rule (focus on morality don't simply think
of someone who broke the law). For example, they
may have lied, broken a
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kant Right Action) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Kant
famously states that the only thing good without
qualification is a good will.  On this basis, he
holds that we can do the right action but not
out of a good will, and that only actions done
from a good will are morally praiseworthy.  Do
you agree with Kant?  Provide an example (real or
made up) of someone doing a good thing but out of
a motive other than that of a good will, and give
reasons for why you think Kant
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Kants
formulations) For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.com   One of Kants formulations of the
Categorical Imperative says that one should
always treat humanity, whether in oneself or in
another, always as an end and never merely as a
means. Briefly explain what that means.
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PHI 208 Week 3 Discussion (Morally Permissible to
lie) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com  
Is it ever morally permissible to lie to
someone?  Describe a circumstance in which it
seems that lying might make more people happy
than telling the truth.  Would lying be the right
thing to do in that
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PHI 208 Week 3 Quiz For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   PHI 208 Week 3
Quiz       1.         Question         Michael
Walzer argues that in the unique world of war,
both morality and authority are
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotle) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Aristotle
says that the virtues are necessary for humans to
attain happiness, but he means this in terms of
something we might call flourishing or living
well, which he considers quite different than
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles account of
eudaimonia) For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com   Is it possible for individuals to
flourish if others with whom they are connected
are not also flourishing?  Consider this with
respect to Aristotles account of eudaimonia, as
well as the other readings and media.  Identify a
community or practice in which you are involved
in
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Aristotles virtue
ethics) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m   An important aspect of Aristotles virtue
ethics is the idea that virtues are habits that
we acquire over time, and like any habit, virtues
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (flourishing or
successful life) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   What are two virtues
that you believe are important to living a
flourishing or successful life in either
Aristotles sense?  Explain what goods in human
life these virtues enable their possessor to
fulfill. 
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (Impact on the
Environment) For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com   Identify an area of life that has an
impact on the environment (including non-human
animals), and explain how the possession or lack
of virtue may make a difference to how one
conducts oneself within that practice with
respect to that environmental impact. In other
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (MacIntyre's account of
practices) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com   Referring to MacIntyre's account of
practices and virtue, outline a practice in your
own life that you believe requires certain
virtues in order to do well. Explain what the
practice is, what the "internal goods" of the
practice are and how they differ from
certain"external
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PHI 208 Week 4 Discussion (virtuous soldier) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   What
does it mean to be a virtuous soldier?  Identify
three virtues that a soldier needs in order to be
an excellent soldier and then explain why. 
Create a scenario that a soldier might face
during war or some
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PHI 208 Week 4 Quiz For more classes
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Quiz     1.         Question         In Ideals
of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural
Environments, Thomas Hill claims that a fruitful
way to think about the badness of destroying the
environment is
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Condition for men and
women) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  Using the readings and media from the
week, explain how society creates different
conditions for men and women.  Identify and
explain at least two ways in which society is
structured such that men and
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (feminist ethical
thinking) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com   Describe the ethical theory that you have
studied in this course that differs the most from
what you consider to be feminist ethical
thinking. 
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PHI 208 Week 5 Discussion (Virginia Helds
article) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om   Using Virginia Helds article Feminist
Transformations of Ethical Theory as a
foundation, explain three things that you did not
know about feminist thought that you found
interesting and/or informative.  What were those
things?  Why are they interesting or informative?
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Equal Pay for Equal
Work) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  Final Paper. Due by Day 7. Please read these
assignment instructions before writing your
paper, and re-read them often during and after
the writing process to make sure that you are
fulfilling all of the instructions. Please also
utilize the assignment guidance and the
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  PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Gender
Equality/Ethics) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Final Paper. Due by
Day 7. Please read these assignment instructions
before writing your paper, and re-read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Just War Military
Ethics) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.co
m   Final Paper. Due by Day 7. Please read these
assignment instructions before writing your
paper, and re-read them often during and after
the
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PHI 208 Week 5 Final Paper (Should Physician
Assisted Suicide Be Legal) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Final Paper. Due by
Day 7. Please read these assignment instructions
before writing your paper, and re-read them often
during and after the writing process to make sure
that you are fulfilling all of the instructions.
Please also utilize the assignment guidance and
the
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PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   PHI 208 Week 5
Quiz     1.         Question         In
Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory,
Virginia Held claims that which abstract concept
has guided the development of Western ethics?
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PHI 208 Week 5 Quiz For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   PHI 208 Week 5
Quiz     1.         Question         In
Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory,
Virginia Held claims that which abstract concept
has guided the development of Western ethics?
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