Ethical Issues 500 word paper on Ethical issues. You will need to read an article from a national newspaper published within the LAST FOUR MONTHS that deals with an ethical issue. Your task is to explain why it is an ethical issue using material from the course

Your understanding of the course material covered so far in the class will be evaluated by reading an article from a national newspaper published within the LAST FOUR MONTHS that deals with an ethical issue. Your task is to explain why it is an ethical issue using material from the course. Please note that newspaper articles older than four months will be marked as a zero unless you have been granted an exemption by your online instructor. In your assignment you must • Deal with an ethical issue and explain why it is an ethical issue. o Please note that you can write about a positive issue – that is, an example of someone or a group of people who have done something to benefit society or a company that implements best practices – instead of focussing on a negative issue. • Summarize the article in the first paragraph without expressing your own opinion in the first paragraph. • Include relevant quotes, concepts & terms from Modules 1, 2 & 3 in the second paragraph to explain how the article relates to the course, with references to all course materials and any external sources. • Explore the implications of the issue at hand in the remainder of your assignment: that is, explore why the issue that you are writing about is either right or wrong. • Be logically organized and grammatically correct • The assignment needs to be two pages, double spaced (roughly 400-500 words). • You need to include the link to the newspaper article at the beginning of your assignment. Referencing: You must provide references to all materials used for this assignment. That includes course materials. Use in-text citations and a list of sources at the end of your paper. Any referencing style is acceptable (APA, MLA, etc.) You will lose marks if you do not use references in your assignment, especially if you do not use in-text citations. Plagiarism: If your assignment has been copied, in part or as a whole, from the Internet, OR from another person, it will be documented and reported to Liberal Arts and Sciences. You will receive a zero grade on the assignment and will not be allowed to resubmit your work. Topics discussed so far. Please let me know if there’s any additional notes or reading to help with this paper. Week 1WHY STUDY ETHICS? OVERVIEW OF THE WEEK This week we will begin by considering the purpose of studying ethics. Next, we will propose a difference in meaning between "ethics" and "morality." This will be followed by a consideration of the relationship between ethics and the law. And finally, we will have a look at the topic of ethical decision-making in complex situations. TOPICS TO BE COVERED · Is there a correlation between how enjoyable a choice is and how ethical it is? · Morality vs ethics. · The relationship between ethics and the law. · Ethical decision-making. LEARNING OUTCOMES After completing lesson one, students will be able to · Articulate the value and application of ethics in shaping our everyday lives · Explain the difference between the terms ethics and morals · Describe the relationship between ethics and law. · Describe different kinds of ethical problems and identify methods of ethical problem Week 2THE ETHICS OF DIVINE COMMANDMENT OVERVIEW OF THE WEEK Students will be introduced to the topic of religious moralities. The learning objectives this week are to understand various ways in which religion can shape moral attitudes, to recognize the centrality of the Enlightenment in forming modern ethical thought, and to gain an appreciation of the pluralist approach to religious claims. TOPICS TO BE COVERED · The Enlightenment and the autonomy of reason · Navajo, Islamic, and Buddhist approaches to moral and ethical issues · Ethical pluralism LEARNING OUTCOMES After completing lesson one, students will be able to · See how religious worldviews shape moral and ethical attitudes · Formulate their own perspective on the relationship between religion and ethics · Explore how ethical pluralism, unlike ethical absolutism, promotes genuine religious tolerance REVIEW · Ethical relativism, ethical absolutism, ethical pluralism · Principles of ethical pluralism: The principle of understanding, the principle of tolerance, the principle of standing up against evil, the principle of fallibility · Morality vs Ethic Week 3 THE ETHICS OF DUTY OVERVIEW OF THE WEEK Students will be introduced to Immanuel Kant's duty ethics, also known as deontology, this week. Deontology believes that there are absolute right and wrong and that the ends don't necessarily justify the means. Students will learn about the importance of intention for duty ethics; the significance of duty and the categorical imperative; and the difference between treating someone as a means and an end. TOPICS TO BE COVERED · The significance of intention in shaping moral issues according to Immanuel Kant · An explanation of the terms autonomy, reason, categorical imperative and universalizability · Difference between treating someone as a means as opposed to treating them as an end LEARNING OUTCOMES After completing this lesson, students will be able to · Understand the terms deontology, universalizability, categorical imperative and maxim · Understand the difference between means and ends · Recognize the differences between duty ethics and utilitarianism · Understand the legacy of the Kantian tradition