Writing prompts

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there is no word requirement , please just answer the question referencing the readings as fully as possible and deliviring the points:

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1- On page 39, Calarco advances teh claim that “pro-animal difference theorists would have us reflect upon the ways in which animals make ethical calls on us in much the same way that other human beings do.” Using is discussion of Levinas and the “call of the other” (32), give an account of how an other has made an ethical demand on your life based on their difference.

Reading:

Calarco, Thinking Through Animals Chptr 1-3

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2- What ethical issues arose in the handling of Henrietta Lacks’ cancer cells. What possibilities, from your perspective, existed for handing the cells in a way that would be considered more ethical?

Readings:

Skloot, The Immortal Life of HL

13-18/34-41/56-66

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3- In what ways have your responses to the questions you answered on the first day of class changed and/or remained the same. What aspect of the class had the deepest impact on how you currently view the nature of ethics and morality?

The questions were to investigates the question of what it means to live a moral life. Examining major works in Western philosophy, issues discussed include the distinction between the law and morality, deontology and utilitarianism, justice, honor, human rights, animal rights and bioethics. In exploring these topics we will be thinking about and discussing the implications these approaches have on our everyday lives and the ever-changing social world that we are currently navigating. With this in mind we also engage with the differing impacts philosophical moral theories have on individuals with diverse lives and lifestyles. When I answered these questions I took the blind side way in with out questionoing my motives but now it’s different,

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The readings are provided bellow