Summer1 2013 Ethics take home essays

Write a three page (typed, double spaced) essay in response to two of the following three topics. Attach your answers to an email in one Word document with your name and "Take Home Essays" in the document title and email subject line.

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Early Essay Topics

1. Give a general contrast between Haidt's and Singer's views of ethics on the basis your reading in the course. Is there a way to integrate their views or are they fundamentally opposed?
2. How would a Kantian and a Utilitarian analyze our obligations to the absolutely poor?
3. Reconstruct Haidt's view of religion and its relationship to morality, then give an analysis of it. Can a secular morality exert as strong a pull on our intuitions as a religiously based morality? If our commitment to morality is group based, how will we manage value conflict in an increasingly heterogeneous global culture?