Use your own ideas but also incorporate (or at least don’t ignore) anything relevant from the reading. Answer this question or “Option 1 about the Justification of Punishment”. Except that: Students who have taken a previous ethics course from me should answer the “Alternative question for Week 7: Active versus Passive Euthanasia.”
Read this selection from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov Download this selection from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov that makes the case that no one, not even God, can or should forgive a person for a harm that person did to another — that one can only forgive a person for a harm that person did to oneself. 1) Do you think that is true or not? Why or why not? 2) Are there criteria that are individually necessary and jointly sufficient for someone to deserve forgiveness or that make it right to forgive someone, or is forgiveness just up to anyone to forgive another for any reason s/he decides or any way s/he feels? 3) Is there any way a person who has murdered an innocent person can deserve forgiveness, if forgiveness is something that has criteria that can make it deserved? Why or why not? 4) If you choose not to let another person’s wrong or terrible actions “consume you” or “eat you up with venom and anger” and keep you in a state of anger or frustration, but instead you choose to put it out of your mind and “go on with your life”, is that to “forgive” the person? Why or why not? 5) If out of a sense of love for all other human beings, you immediately say you forgive someone who has wronged you, even terribly, is that actually forgiving them? Why or why not?
To try to make this easier for you, consider a fairly easy, non-emotional kind of case and see whether you can figure out what you should do to deserve forgiveness and then try to generalize from there. Consider the following: your dog gets out of your yard and goes into the neighbor’s yard and poops on his driveway and tears up some of his flowers in a flower bed. What do you need to do in order to deserve forgiveness for this? There are at least four things. What are they? Generalize then about any wrongdoing. And, can a different neighbor forgive you for what your dog did to this neighbor’s yard? Why or why not?
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The Required Textbook is DOING ETHICS By Lewis Vaughn. It is an excellent book with many good articles. I will also supply free supplementary material. You can use the 4th, 5th, or 6th (eText) edition:
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