Ethc445n - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 5, 6 • Lesson • Minimum of 2 scholarly sources (in addition to the course textbook) Ebook uploaded below: Rachels, S., & Rachels, J. (2019). The elements of moral philosophy (9th ed.). Instructions 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 roug...

Initial Post Instructions Rather than living in chaos, danger, and the hostility of our neighbors, we find ways to live together. It isn't easy, but can we avoid doing so? If everybody has self-interest in their own welfare and safety, then everybody also has self- interest in the welfare and safety of others. Self-interest involves community interest, and we must think about what we are willing to give up in order to get that safety and stability for ourselves, our families, our community, o...

ETHC 445 Week 5 Discussion & Follow-up; Kant s Ethics and Our Duty Introduction 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 allows for no exceptions, and what is universal applies always and everywhere. Don't forget about the second f...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter 11 • Lesson • Minimum of 2 scholarly sources Instructions Develop, in detail, a situation in which a health care worker might be confronted with ethical problems related to patients and prescription drug use OR patients in a state of poverty. • Your scenario must be original to you and this assignment. It cannot be from the discussion boards in this class or any other previous forum. •...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter13 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Introduction 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 to take) without his Inter...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapter11 • Lesson • Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to thetextbook) Initial PostInstructions In week three, we were looking at rights ethics with regards to Locke. As a reminder, Locke said we have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and property. It is immoral to violate them. Many think we have more rights than those listed by Locke. Some even think we have a right to health care. T...

Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: • Textbook: Chapters 9, 10 • Lesson • Minimum of 5 scholarly source (in addition to the textbook) Instructions First, return to your topic chosen in the week three assignment. Answer this question: What are the personal and/or communal ethical factors that may be involved in determining the moral position of either side in that debate? Next, articulate and then evaluate the ethical positions using Kantian et...

Instructions For this week’s assignment respond to one of the following options, and include Option 1, 2, or 3 as part ofyour heading. Option 1: The rst option is to name and describe in detail a key specic and recent healthcare technology. What are at least two key moral problems this technology creates? What are the proper moral guidelines fordealing with it in your view? Compare your approach to what an utilitarian and ethical egoist would say (eachindependently). Option 2: In the second...

Instructions For this week’s assignment respond to one of the following options, and include Option 1, 2, or 3 as part ofyour heading. Option 1: The rst option is to name and describe in detail a key specic and recent healthcare technology. What are at least two key moral problems this technology creates? What are the proper moral guidelines fordealing with it in your view? Compare your approach to what an utilitarian and ethical egoist would say (eachindependently). Option 2: In the second...

ETHC 445N Course Project Milestone: Final Paper.