Course Project Milestone – Topic Selection and Discussion This assignment is the first step in a three part project. You only need to focus on part one at this point. Each step will build on earlier steps. However, it is not a matter of providing a rough draft of all or even part of the […]

Religion and Ethics John Doe has decided to clone himself. He is sterile. He cannot find anyone to marry him. He wishes to have children. He knows that he will not be able to love a child that is adopted or not connected directly to him biologically. He will be making use of a new […]

Cultural Relativism and Moral Action For this assignment propose a scenario where you or someone you know are confronted with a moral dilemma relating to cultural diversity and multiculturalism. It cannot be the same as what was covered in the week one discussion.   Cultural diversity refers to religious, sexual, racial, and other forms of […]

Is it Right to be a Relativist? The study of ethics and philosophy is one that brings many different kinds of “thinkers” together. One person’s philosophy on ethics is another person’s philosophy on evil. We will be working this term on constructing personal ethical bases and understanding how ethical codes (both personal and professional) are […]

Contemplation and Consideration Some people believe that you can tell who a person is by what they do when no one is looking. Let’s look at the following case. John Doe, a nurse, has downloaded an application to her phone that allows him to download copyrighted textbooks for a nursing course (that Doe is going […]

Religion and Ethics St. Augustine in the 5th Century held that we are free to make choices in life. This is the idea of free will. It may seem at first glance odd for a religious thinker to say that we have free will. After all, if God exists, then God created all things. God […]

Kant’s Ethics and Our Duty Kant’s famous First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative reads, “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” Kant taught morality as a matter of following maxims of living that reflect absolute laws. “Universal” is a term that […]

This policy brought New Mexico, California, and parts of Utah, Colorado, and Nevada into the United States:                   a.            Treaty of Velasco                   b.            Treaty of Cordoba     […]

Continental drift was a hypothesis first explained by ______________________, where he named the first supercontinent Pangaea.   Nicolas Steno   Alfred Wegener   James Hutton   Charles Darwin   •             Question 2          The process by which new oceanic seafloor is formed is called:        […]

The classification scheme for coastlines is primarily based on:                    materials that make up the coasts                   plate tectonics of the region                   sea level on the coast       […]