Overview
Select a dilemma related to one of the moral dilemmas we have recently discussed in class: Voting, Vegetarianism, Experimentation on Animals, Capital Punishment, Trolley Problem, or Distribution of Public Resources.
- Select a moral theory: Utilitarianism, Kant's Principle of Universalizability or Humanity from the Categorical Imperative, or Scanlon's Contract theory.
- Write an essay in which you apply your chosen moral theory to your chosen dilemma, defending a position about what the moral theory entails about how the dilemma should be resolved.
1- chosen Dilemma : The Trolley Problem
2- Chosen moral theory : Utilitarianism