Demonstrate your understanding of moral principles by describing a modern moral dilemma and giving your advice for overcoming it. ​ Type a short essay of no less than 125 words describing a present-day moral dilemma, and then give your advice on how to overcome that dilemma.

Answer:In Book I of Plato’s Republic, Cephalus defines ‘justice’ as speaking the truth and paying one’s debts. Socrates quickly refutes this account by suggesting that it would be wrong to repay certain debts—for example, to return a borrowed weapon to a friend who is not in his right mind. Socrates’ point is not that repaying debts is without moral import; rather, he wants to show that it is not always right to repay one’s debts, at least not exactly when the one to whom the debt is owed demands repayment. What we have here is a conflict between two moral norms: repaying one’s debts and protecting others from harm. And in this case, Socrates maintains that protecting others from harm is the norm that takes priority.

Nearly twenty-four centuries later, Jean-Paul Sartre described a moral conflict the resolution of which was, to many, less obvious than the resolution to the Platonic conflict. Sartre (1957) tells of a student whose brother had been killed in the German offensive of 1940. The student wanted to avenge his brother and to fight forces that he regarded as evil. But the student’s mother was living with him, and he was her one consolation in life. The student believed that he had conflicting obligations. Sartre describes him as being torn between two kinds of morality: one of limited scope but certain efficacy, personal devotion to his mother; the other of much wider scope but uncertain efficacy, attempting to contribute to the defeat of an unjust aggressor.

While the examples from Plato and Sartre are the ones most commonly cited, there are many others. Literature abounds with such cases. In Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, the protagonist ought to save his daughter and ought to lead the Greek troops to Troy; he ought to do each but he cannot do both. And Antigone, in Sophocles’s play of the same name, ought to arrange for the burial of her brother, Polyneices, and ought to obey the pronouncements of the city’s ruler, Creon; she can do each of these things, but not both. Areas of applied ethics, such as biomedical ethics, business ethics, and legal ethics, are also replete with such cases.

2. The Concept of Moral Dilemmas

What is common to the two well-known cases is conflict. In each case, an agent regards herself as having moral reasons to do each of two actions, but doing both actions is not possible. Ethicists have called situations like these moral dilemmas. The crucial features of a moral dilemma are these: the agent is required to do each of two (or more) actions; the agent can do each of the actions; but the agent cannot do both (or all) of the actions. The agent thus seems condemned to moral failure; no matter what she does, she will do something wrong (or fail to do something that she ought to do).

The Platonic case strikes many as too easy to be characterized as a genuine moral dilemma. For the agent’s solution in that case is clear; it is more important to protect people from harm than to return a borrowed weapon. And in any case, the borrowed item can be returned later, when the owner no longer poses a threat to others. Thus in this case we can say that the requirement to protect others from serious harm overrides the requirement to repay one’s debts by returning a borrowed item when its owner so demands. When one of the conflicting requirements overrides the other, we have a conflict but not a genuine moral dilemma. So in addition to the features mentioned above, in order to have a genuine moral dilemma it must also be true that neither of the conflicting requirements is overridden (Sinnott-Armstrong 1988, Chapter 1).

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29. Read this sentence from "And of Clay Are We Created" in which the speaker describes the
reporter, Rolf Carle.
Nothing could stop him, and I was always amazed at his equanimity in the face of
danger and suffering; it seemed as if nothing could shake his fortitude or deter his
curiosity.
The word equanimity suggests that Rolf Carle is
O composed.
O dedicated.
O focused.
O persistent.

copying your classmates homework is wrong
a. fact
b. opinion

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Excerpt from No Fear
Tracy Wilson
Austin reached into his backpack to make sure that it was there. He wasn't sure
he needed his inhaler, but he was checking just in case. His chest was tight as he
once again attempted a deep breath. He completely filled his lungs and exhaled
smoothly. He repeated this rhythm several times, surprised at the ease at which it
came. But he'd keep the inhaler in his pocket. It had been a long time since he'd
had a real asthma attack, since Little League, in fact. But it was never too far from
his mind, especially when he played baseball.
From the fact that Austin's checks his breath in paragraph 1, we can conclude
that he is
A)determined.
B) distracted.
C)lighthearted.
D)worried.

What was Beatty's lecture to Montag?

Read the excerpt. Then choose the correct way to complete each sentence. Wilson sees”….” as the key to achleving peace. A quotation that supports this conclusion is "………."

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Carolina is discussing President Barack Obama's election and the impact it had on her interest in political science for application for an internship in D.C. She
uses the phrase, Si se puede." Is this okay?
Yes, although she might want to include the English version as well, "Yes, we can," for anyone who doesn't remember or doesn't know enough
Spanish to understand.
O Yes, although Carolina should probably not talk about Obama and instead focus on her own accomplishments in an application essay.
No, since Obama used both the English and Spanish versions of his slogan, Carolina should stick to the English version because it's easier for
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everyone to understand.
O No, Obama's phrase was "Yes, we can

Which sentence best states the purpose of a literary analysis essay for “An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane?

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What is an advantage of this print article over a video version of the story? A) The print version is more personable, allowing the audience to visualize the setting and people of 1918. B) The print version is easier for people to understand, as most people would prefer to read a long passage rather than watch a video. C) None of these represent advantage that the print version of this information would have over a video version of the same information. D) The print version allows for more specific details, including numbers and facts that might be lost in a video version of the information.

Which best states how the image add to the text in the passage

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Excerpt from To Build a Fire This passage is an excerpt from Jack London's famous short story describing the experience of a man hiking in the middle of an extremely cold winter morning. With his faithful companion a husky dog, the man and the dog walk through the winter morning hoping to meet his associates later that day. All this the man knew. The old–timer on Sulphur Creek had told him about it the previous fall, and now he was appreciating the advice. Already all sensation had gone out of his feet. To build the fire he had been forced to remove his mittens, and the fingers had quickly gone numb. His pace of four miles an hour had kept his heart pumping blood to the surface of his body and to all the extremities. But the instant he stopped, the action of the pump eased down. The cold of space smote the unprotected tip of the planet, and he, being on that unprotected tip, received the full force of the blow. The blood of his body recoiled before it. The blood was alive, like the dog, and like the dog it wanted to hide away and cover itself up from the fearful cold. So long as he walked four miles an hour, he pumped that blood, willy–nilly, to the surface; but now it ebbed away and sank down into the recesses of his body. The extremities were the first to feel its absence. His wet feet froze the faster, and his exposed fingers numbed the faster, though they had not yet begun to freeze. Nose and cheeks were already freezing, while the skin of all his body chilled as it lost its blood. But he was safe. Toes and nose and cheeks would be only touched by the frost, for the fire was beginning to burn with strength. He was feeding it with twigs the size of his finger. In another minute he would be able to feed it with branches the size of his wrist, and then he could remove his wet foot–gear, and, while it dried, he could keep his naked feet warm by the fire, rubbing them at first, of course, with snow. The fire was a success. He was safe. He remembered the advice of the old–timer on Sulphur Creek, and smiled. The

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i can encourage my classmates to stay on task with their school work by…..(finish the sentence)

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What evidence suggests Chung had a good experience in her summer job on Capitol
Hill between her junior and senior years?

A reader can ask, "How would I react if the events in this book happened to me?” to put a text into

In a nonfiction essay on property law, which choice of details would the author most likely use?
A. imagery
B. plot
C. dialogue
D. examples

Select the correct sentence.
Jill a talented woman in the world of business, decided to run for president.
B.Jill, a talented woman in the world of business decided to run for president.
C.Jill, a talented woman in the world of business, decided to run for president.

Taking detailed notes will help you
O verify information.
O quote accurately.
O write your story more easily.
O all of the above.

What level of biodiversity is most commonly equated with the over concept of biodiversity

What is the motivation for many of the authors in The Modern Age of poetry?
a) They wrote simply to make money so their family could survive.
Ob) They wrote for love and to express their feelings about a person.
c) They wrote for self-reflection and to look within one's self for clarity.
d) The wrote in response to social/political issues to invoke a change.

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Which character is the one who mixes up words and therefore misconstrues information?

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Besides raising a lot of money,
which other detail suggests
that Lizzie's race was a
success?

What is a main idea?
A
the main character in a story

B
the message about life that an author expresses

C
the sequence of events in a story

D
a description of what the story is mostly about

Transform the following:

Ex. Beethoven is my dog.

Beethoven is not/isn’t my dog.



1. The children are awake.

2. The dog eats the bone.

3. The grass grew tall.