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Morality: If you focus on right and wrong as understood in morality, you should focus on fundamental ideas of right and wrong. Include some consideration of where you think ideas of right and wrong come from. Should people refer to religious belief in determining what is right and wrong, or do you think that religious belief is unnecessary or even counter-productive in determining what is morally right and wrong? Further consider whether, based on your idea of where moral principles should come from, what limitations there should be on the ways that people act or even on the ways that people think.
You should also refer to ideas from at least three of the readings in A World of Ideas, by writers such as Martin Luther King, Hsun Tzu, Kwame Appiah, Carol Gilligan, Plato, John Rawls, Philip Kitcher, Iris Murdoch, Judith Butler, and/or Michael Gazzaniga. You may also include ideas from one or more of the essays from earlier in the semester or essays that were not assigned from A World of Ideas, such as essays by Thomas Jefferson, Aristotle, Milton and Rose Friedman, or Lao-Tzu. To cite quotations or ideas from the readings, make sure to cite the authors name. It is not necessary to mention the name of the book. Put page numbers for quotations in parentheses after the quotation. When you include ideas from these readings, you can use them in any way that you like. Feel free to agree or disagree with any of them. You may also include information from research. If you include information that is not from the textbook, make sure that you cite the source or sources for that information. Try to use MLA format correctly in citing sources. Errors in using MLA format will not affect your grade for the essay, but I will mark your essay to show any mistakes in using MLA format.
Structure of the Essay:
Begin your essay with a specific example, which you analyze in terms of what you think is right or wrong in regards to that example. It is better to use an actual example than a hypothetical example. The best kind of example is one in which what is right and wrong may not be immediately clear to everyone. Include enough details with this example so that it is clear exactly what happened in this case and so that the moral or ethical implications involved can be considered. Finish this example with a clear understanding of what you believe to be right or wrong in regard to this example. Again, dont simply assert that there can be different opinions about what is right or wrong. Clearly explain what you think is right or wrong and at least a basic explanation of why.
Follow your example with a more general discussion of right and wrong that apply to situations of the same type as your example. Derive a clear set of principles of right and wrong from this initial example which you can then apply to your understanding of right and wrong under principles of justice, ethics, or morality. Use ideas from the reading assignments from A World of Ideas and/or from research to explain what these principles are and where they come from. In using these ideas, feel free to agree or to disagree with any of them.
Apply the principles that you derived from your initial example to at least one other example. Include at least one other detailed example to illustrate how your understanding or right and wrong can be applied in a somewhat larger variety of situations. Examples can be drawn from any current or recent controversy dealing with ideas of justice or morality or equality, such as controversies involving voting rights, racial profiling, homosexual rights, prayer in school, or any other controversy that comes up during group discussion or class discussion. Make sure that at least one of your examples comes from a relatively recent event so that your understanding of right and wrong does not seem merely historical in nature but can be applied to situations in the world today.
