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==Final Essays==

===Topic Assignment===

:*For each of your two final essays, please write a two page typed, double spaced, 12 font answer.  Your answer should demonstrate excellence in writing, use of content, logic, and insight.  The first essay topic is stipulated, but you may choose from a list of three topics for the second one.

:*1st topic:  What are the moral advantages and disadvantages of globalism (use global institutions and multilateral agreements to solve some problems)?  Identify some particular examples of problems that seem to require global solutions and give your own brief analysis of one of them.

:*2nd topic: Choose one of the following: 
::*A. Does Haidt's moral foundations theory have insights for how we should think about moral and political difference and engagement?  Identify both positive practical implications and limits to using the theory to guide your approach to morals and politics. 
::*B. Brief explain a Rawlsian approach to justice and then show how the theory might be applied to thinking about the ethics of climate change.
::*C. How does intuition (the elephant) and our groupishness complicate the problem of ethics?  Should we rely less on these psychological dynamics and more on abstract rules and reason to guide our ethics?  Consider examples.

===Assignment Instructions===

:*Prepare your essays in a single .docx file or .pdf.  Find your animal name for this assignment (see below) and '''put your animal name in the file.''' Please identify the essay topic at the start of your answer.  The two essays together should not exceed four pages.  Upload the file to the "Final Essays" dropbox by '''midnight, May 9th.'''

St. Agatha	whale

St. Amand	kiwi

St. Ansgar	dolphin

St. Anthony Claret	seal

St. Augustine of Canterbury	caterpillar

St. Augustine of Hippo	rhinoceros

St. Bede the Venerable	swan

St. Bernardine of Siena	lark

St. Bridget	starling

St. Caerealis	seahorse

St. Candidus	falcon

St. Canute	jellyfish

St. Casimir	jaguar

St. Catherine of Alexandria	zebra

St. Catherine of Siena	badger

St. Clare of Assisi	caribou

St. Columba	walrus

St. Cyprian	anaconda

St. David of Wales	bluejay

St. Dismas	porpoise

St. Dominic Savio	ostrichowl

St. Dorothy	mantis

St. Dunstan	gull

St. Francis Borgia	iguana

St. Francis Xavier	hound

St. Gertrude the Great	bear

St. Gregory the Great	hedgehog

St. Isidore of Seville	dove

St. Jerome	pelican

St. John Baptist de la Salle	hornet

St. John Bosco	giraffe

St. John of Capistrano	nightingale

St. John of Nepomuk	dragonfly

St. John the Apostle	raven

St. John the Baptist	viper

St. Joseph of Cupertino	finch

St. Kassia	ferret

St. Lucy	koala

St. Luke	reindeer

St. Martin de Porres	butterfly

St. Neot	robin

St. Nicholas von Flue	manatee

St. Olga of Kiev	bison

St. Osyth	ibis

St. Patrick	kangaroo

St. Peregrine Laziosi	hummingbird

St. Peter Chanel	coyote

St. Peter Julian Eymard	tardigrade

St. Peter the Aleut	rattlesnake

St. Polycarp	scorpion

St. Quintian	otter

St. Raymond of Penafort	chipmunk

St. Rose of Lima	octopus

St. Stephen	penguin

St. Tathan	elk

St. Thomas Aquinas	tarsier

St. Thomas the Apostle	wolverine

St. Urbicius	ocelot

St. Vincent Ferrer	yak

St. Vitus	antelope

St. Wenceslaus	hare

St. Werburgh	albatross

St. Zita	turtle