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
