Ethical Theory
Each student should produce a personal ethical theory paper. The purpose of the paper is to offer students an opportunity to engage in independent ethical reflection and theorizing. The paper should clearly articulate the student’s personal ethical theory and provide the reasons the student finds the theory helpful and persuasive.
A personal ethical theory is a general ethical theory, not an applied ethics (single issue) paper. Though each student has creative control of her/his paper, composing the paper as an argumentative essay might be the best (and most direct) approach.
The paper should also demonstrate that the student is aware of, and responsive to, some of the theoretical issues/problems involved in ethical theorizing.We need to base this paper on the question; what is the “Good”, for ex. like how Plato thought the good comes from justice and reason.the theorist we have been studying are:
Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill.