Week 5 Discussion – PHI2301

Week 5 Discussion

The purpose of this discussion assignment is to reflect upon your beliefs about what is good by discussing how you would resolve an ethical dilemma of your choosing. In 1-2 pages, address the following:

• Identify an ethical dilemma you or someone you know has faced.
• Identify and explain the ethical philosophy from the reading that you think either should have or did inform how you resolved the dilemma. You can choose utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, care ethics, Buddhist ethics, African ethics, or existential ethics.
• Identify and explain an ethical theory that would take a different approach.

Submission Detail

• Remember to use supporting citations from the textbook and lectures in correct APA citation.
• Submit your response to the above discussion topic as your initial post to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.
• After you post your initial submission, you must respond to at least two of your classmates, and to the professor when appropriate, by the end of the week, on at least two different days of the week. 
• Textbook Information: Mitchell, H. B. (2019). . Cengage Learning: ISBN 9781337559805.