Choose a text from the below and in no less than 6 pages: (a) summarize the main themes and arguments of the text in a minimum of 2 pages, (b) analyze the text from the perspective of each of the 10 major ethical theories: utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, social contract theory, altruism, egoism, positive law, natural law, relativism, nihilism (ONE paragraph for each theory) and (c), add to the conversation; offer a solution or resolution to the problem discussed in your text or side with one of the ethical theories analyzed in your paper and explain why you believe that position is the best solution to the ethical issue at hand. Use Chicago Style or MLA.

Choose a text from the below and in no less than 6 pages: (a) summarize the main themes and arguments of the text in a minimum of 2 pages, (b) analyze the text from the perspective of each of the 10 major ethical theories: utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, social contract theory, altruism, egoism, positive law, natural law, relativism, nihilism (ONE paragraph for each theory) and (c), add to the conversation; offer a solution or resolution to the problem discussed in your text or side with one of the ethical theories analyzed in your paper and explain why you believe that position is the best solution to the ethical issue at hand.  Use Chicago Style or MLA.  Short Books: Oscar Wilde – On the Soul of Man under Socialism Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience, etc. Soren Kierkegaard – Fear and Trembling, etc. John Paul Sartre – Existentialism, etc. Albert Camus – Myth of Sisyphus, Stranger, etc. Friedrich Nietzsche – Antichrist, etc. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-reliance, etc. Essays, Articles, Letters: Laurence Thomas – What Good Am I? Susan Wolf – Moral Saints Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill – Utilitarianism Louis P. Pojman - Strengths and Weaknesses of Utilitarianism Peter Singer - Famine, Affluence, and Morality John Arthur – World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case Against Singer Deontology Onora O’Neill – A Simplified Account of Kant’s Ethics Virtue Ethics Bernard Mayo – Ethics and the Moral Life Social Contract and Legal Justice John Rawls – A Theory of Justice Thomas Hobbes – The Social Contract Natural Law Martin Luther King Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail, etc. Feminist Ethics Jean Grimshaw – The Idea of a Female Ethic Nietzsche André Comte-Sponville - The Brute, the Sophist, and the Aesthete: “Art in the Service of Illusion” Nihilism Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Grand Inquisitor Emil Cioran – The Trouble With Being Born Abortion Mary Anne Warren – On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion Don Marquis – Why Abortion Is Immoral Death Penalty Ernst van den Haag - In Defense of the Death Penalty Hugo Adam Bedau – Capital Punishment Animal Rights Tom Regan – The Case for Animal Rights Carl Cohen – The Case for the Use of Animals in Biological Research Tom Regan – We are What We Eat Environmental Studies William F. Baxter – People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution Terrorism Michael Walzer – Terrorism Lionel K. McPherson – Is Terrorism Distinctively Wrong