Reflection paper

Select two from the numerated ethical theories and apply them to the ethical dilemma below. Note well: this is not an invitation for you to tell me how you personally would respond, but rather what a person whose professed ethical theory corresponds to your choices would say. CHOOSE TWO: 1. Utilitarianism (whether Act or Rule), 2. Deontology, and/or 3. Virtue Ethics (which may involve some version of Care Ethics or not). Apply them to this scenario: The Two that i am going to be using for this essay is virtue ethics and deontology.

Dan, a sophomore in college who believes with all his heart that the christian god has appointed him to the mission of getting through his education so that he can become a political leader in the United States, is at a crossroads in his Introduction to Ethics class. He must earn an “A” on the final exam in order to keep up his GPA and he must keep up his GPA in order to continue to receive the scholarship funding that will make it possible for him to complete the education that is necessary in order to attain the political position that will fulfill his god-given mission. Dan’s friend, Bart, took the Ethics course with Dr. West in the previous semester and managed somehow to take a screen shot of the final exam with the correct answers. Having heard from others that Dr. West frequently recycles the same exam, Dan figures that he would be assured the “A” if he studied Bart’s screenshot of the exam. Dan decides that the future fulfillment of his god-given purpose is too important to risk not receiving an “A” on the exam; so he decides to use Bart’s exam. Dan scores a “100” on the exam, imagining that Dr. West and everyone else is none the wiser for it. Suppose that he goes on to become President of the United States

Please write a 500-700 word (2-3 page, double-spaced) paper formatted using the Chicago Manual of Style (no MLA or APA will be accepted) with one-inch margins, elegant/professional 12-point font, interestingly titled paper that fully addresses the prompt below. As is customary in my classes, you are instructed NOT to consult outside sources. You will not need them as you are expected to engage directly with the assigned text material and to give me the sense that you have understood the content for this unit of the course. But even when using assigned textual material, you will still be expected to adhere to rigorous academic honesty in citing any direct quotation or paraphrasing you may deploy. The expectation is that you will give me YOUR reflection and not the “pre-chewed food” of someone else’s reflection. The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate that you understand how to apply at least two of the ethical theories we have studied (read about or discussed). But NOTE: It is impossible to produce a successful document that does not include reference to and citation of the authorized source documents. Your paper must include precise, i.e., not just a list of “Sources consulted”, documentation of sources used and, if it fails to do so, it will be treated as an instance of academic dishonesty with an automatic “0” for the assignment.

the added items at the bottom are all that are needed for this assignment most of it will be coming from a text book i will provide screen shots of evey page needed and the potentially used to be cited. along with the title and the author of the textbook the screen shots will be in page order. Paper is chicago style so i do need footnotes for a good grade.

title of the book and authors

EthicsTheory and Contemporary Issues, 010th Ed.

Andrew Fiala, Barbara MacKinnon.

chapters for deontological ethics is chapter 6

chapter for virtue ethics is chapter 8