Researching and answering questions
Requirements: This paper requires researching content that will be applicable to a group or specific individual questions. Answer responses must be substantive and comprehensive addressing the questions, providing the relevant research while keeping the ethical theory or concept within context. If you use information from others, you must cite information where you list the information from others, place references in the references section. The length of this paper should be not more than 6 pages of content (the body of your paper) in length. As a guide for minimum content, papers should be a minimum of 2 pages of content (content is the body of your paper (the body excludes the title page, abstract and references pages). Use the included boxes to input your answers, or if you prefer to write out your paper in paragraph format, that is fine, but you must include all of the questions and respond accordingly.
Step 1.
Article(s)/Facts
- Research one or more articles that includes a technological or ethical topic. Students will list five or more relevant facts using complete sentences from the article(s). Write in the in-text citations for each fact where you list the information from your others/resources.
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- Summarize the ethical values from above, what ethical/values are in question from the above facts? List more than three different facts than those from above- below:
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Step 3
Social Contract Theory- Negative and Positive Rights
Major Ethical dilemma question:
- Research a new article or resource that has elements of social contract theory. Discuss: what is social contract theory and why your article has a relationship with social contract theory.
Interpretation of above analysis:
- Does the ethical question results validate negative rights being identified? Yes or No? How?
- Does the ethical question results validate positive rights being identified? Yes or No? How?
- Develop a social contract theory question that incorporates the article/resources and discuss why your question is relative. Example (how do warranties protect consumer rights)?
Final outcome of analysis:
Is the social contract theory applicable to your ethical question? How? Why?
