Spring 2017 Final Essay Questions

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. 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