PART TWO: SELECTED MORAL ISSUES

Practical Ethics       I. Life (suicide, murder, euthanasia, assisted suicide, abortion, self-defense)
in Personal Life       II. Health (risks to life, care of health, the AIDS crisis, drugs)
and in                   III. Truthfulness (lying, secrets)
Social Life              IV. Society (family, marriage, sex, birth control)

I. CHOOSE A SUBJECT: a moral issue in which you are interested - Read about the issue to get some idea of its various aspects.

2. LIMIT IT: Choose the specific aspects of the issue which will be your subject. Read enough about your subject to be sure you want to write about it. You may not change your subject after submitting it, unless you are directed to do so.

3. A statement of the issue and the specific aspects you will address;

b. one or more current instances of this issue;

c. how these instances have been and/or are being judged by others; document these with footnotes or endnotes, CMS form;

d. your attempt to judge this issue by applying relevant moral principles learned and developed in this course;

e. a title page, footnotes or endnotes, and bibliography.