Question: Instructions: Choose one of the readings from chapters 1-5 and summarize, explain, and evaluate the main points of the reading in a minimum of 250-300 words. Do not simply cut and paste from the reading, but summarize the main points in your own words.
You may choose any one of the following readings to complete this assignment:
CHAPTER 1: Aristotle and the Question of Virtue: Why Bother Being Good?
- The Virtues by Aristotle
CHAPTER 2: Wrong Is Always Wrong: Kant's Categorical Imperative
- The Categorical Imperative and the Good Will from Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant
- Concerning a Pretended Right to Lie from Motives of Humanity by Immanuel Kant
CHAPTER 3: Consequences Matter-Utilitarianism
- The Principle of Utility by Jeremy Bentham
- Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
CHAPTER 4: Continental Perspectives
- Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Introduction to an Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
CHAPTER 5: Other Influential Moral Theories: Does Morality Depend on Culture, God, Nature, or Emotions?
- Euthyphro by Plato
- The Principles of Morals by David Hume
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