Your first paragraph should begin with the topic question. It should be focused, concrete, and on a relevant moral problem. For example:
Is capital punisment wrong?
Does a person with a terminal condition have a right to physician-assisted suicide?
Would it be wrong to produce clones of humans as a form of reproduction?
Is it wrong to eat meat that comes from animals raised on factory farms?
The writer of this paper may choose whatever moral problem they would like to write about. Does not have to come from the examples above.
You should then introduce the topic, reflecting the developed understanding and information you have gained about the topic and any necessary refinement of the scope.
Explain its relevance and importance.
Define any key terms and concepts.
Provide any relevant context and background information.
Briefly reference an idea, quote, or analysis of the issue that you have found in one of the required resources on the topic.
Explanation and Demonstration of Moral Reasoning
This section of the Final Paper will explain and demonstrate what you believe to be the best way of reasoning about the question you have chosen and show how that reasoning supports the position you have taken on the question. You might explain the principles, rules, values, virtues, conceptions of purposes and ends, and other general ideas that you find persuasive, and show how they support concrete judgments.
Explanation of the Ethical Theory
Ethical theories provide accounts of how to reason well about moral questions and of what justifies answers to those questions. The discussion should include the following elements: (mentioned in the more detailed instructions)
Application of the Ethical Theory
Now that you have explained in general terms the core principle of the ethical theory you are focusing on in this paper, you will apply that theory and its core principle to your ethical question.
Explain as clearly and precisely as you can how that principle leads to a particular conclusion.
Objection and Response
After explaining the ethical reasoning that supports your position, you should raise an objection and respond to it. An objection articulates a plausible reason why someone might find the argument weak or problematic. You should explain how it brings out this weakness, and do so in a way that would be acceptable to someone who disagrees with your own argument. Then, provide the best response you can to the objection, showing how it does not undermine your position. Your response should not simply restate your original position or argument but should say something new in support of it.
Conclusion
In this section of the paper, provide a summary of what you have done in the paper by briefly describing what you accomplished in each of the above sections.
