Module 1 - Guiding Assignment

PHI 324 - Module 2 Guiding Assignment

Complete Steps 1 and 2 below. Refer to the Assignment Guidelines document in the Course Home menu for further information regarding critical thinking standards and grading.

Submit this assignment to the Dropbox no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.)

Step 1: Answer all of the questions below.

1. How does Devettere define virtue and prudence? List and define both the moral and intellectual virtues.

2. What features did Aquinas link to prudence? What does the Devettere text describe as a proper notion of prudence?

3. What did Aristotle understand by Eudaimonia? What does the Devettere text describe as a proper notion of happiness?

4. Compare and contrast Devettere’s treatment of the role of religion in moral decision making with that of David Kelly in Chapter 1 of Contemporary Catholic Health Care Ethics.

5. According to Chapter 2 of A Primer for Health Care Ethics, there are a number of approaches or methods people use when making ethical decisions. List, and in your own words describe, each. Include an example of how you may have used each method at one time or another. What approach does O’Rourke advocate and how does it compare with Devettere’s approach?

Step 2: After answering the questions, conclude with the following process:

1. Summarize the main points made in the reading or readings as concisely, but as completely, as you can. What went on in these texts (whether in print or online)? Feel free to provide brief illustrative quotations from the texts (with page numbers in parentheses after the quotations) to help make your point. Where there are many readings assigned, their main points generally overlap; therefore, do your best to succinctly present what’s most crucial.

2. State what you thought was most interesting about what you read. Your aim should be to personalize (that is, say what these readings taught you, what you found interesting or of value), rather than to summarize (as you did in the first part). Use phrases like the following: “From these readings, I learned...” or “I didn’t used to understand...but now I do because...,” or “What I found interesting was...,” and so on.