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Questions:

1. Identify a topic (a question, a philosopher, idea) and an assignment or course design aspect that should be keep for future versions of this course philosophy Explain why you think It should be kept teaching or using it.
2. Think of the career criminal justice .How does this course philosophy ethics bear on that career? What have we learned this semester that will be useful or relevant to this career?
3. What advice would give to future online ethics students about how to be successful in this class?
4. Imagine a 2nd grade teacher has a student in his class that is using a racial slur. When he corrects the child, the child angrily insists that her parents have always told her this word is how to talk about the racial group in question. To what extent (if any) is the child accountable for her actions? answer should draw on our unit on autonomy and should demonstrate an understanding of the concepts we covered in that unit.
5. What is Rawls's veil of ignorance? Give an example that illustrates the understanding and/or puts the concept of the veil of ignorance in context.
6. Getting consent is one way we show respect to autonomous beings. Define informed consent and give example of informed consent
7. Imagine that you are in a big city waiting for the subway to come. A short ways away, someone trips and falls down onto the tracks. Immediately, another person leaps down onto the tracks and begins pulling them off of the tracks. Analyze the case according to psychological egoism. What would a psychological egoist say about the motives of the rescuer?
8. Part A: What does it mean to be autonomous? Include an example in your answer. Part B: What does it mean to be heteronomous?
9. Care ethics endorses moral particularism. What does this mean? Include an example as part of the answer.
10. Briefly explain at least two criticisms that care ethicists have of traditional, principle-based western ethical theories (like Kantian moral theory or utilitarianism).
11. Autonomy is not compatible with being under someone's control. But is autonomy compatible with influence? Answer the question and give examples that helps to illustrate some aspect of answer
12. What is the difference between psychological and ethical egoism? Use an example as a part of the response.