Some extra information regarding the paper

This might possibly be relevant to your consideration of the new law in AZ, particularly in terms of Rawls' first principle of justice and Mill's (that's possessive, not plural!) concerns about liberty.

Extra Credit Assignments

Philosophy 110 Spring 2010

Extra Credit

Earn up to 50 points for each assignment completed satisfactorily. Each paper should be a minimum of 2 pages to answer the assignment sufficiently to gain any points. Papers should be typed, double-spaced, and in no larger than 12-point font.

1. Aristotle and Mill both want to promote human flourishing, but come to quite different conclusions about how best to do that. Write a paper in which you compare and contrast their views about what constitutes human flourishing and how best to achieve it.
2. Give a brief description of a situation you faced, in which you didn't know what was the best thing to do. Give a detailed description of how you would apply the categorical imperative to that situation (that is, actually walk through the application of the c.i. to that situation), and say what decision(s) you would come to by using the c.i.
3. Propose a change to an existing law and give a detailed analysis of why your change would be a better rule to have in our moral code.

Final Term Paper

Here's a link to the assignment for your final term paper. Let me know if you have any questions while you're working on it.

You can get started on #s 1 and 2 now.

The transition to Google docs format didn't quite deal with the footnotes, so you'll see a bit of weird formatting. The tiny numbers 1 and 2 in question 1 are footnotes.

Here are some links to general information about and coverage of SB1070:

This is a Times story about the bill before it had been signed into law. Covers some of the general provisions and some of the controversy over the bill.

This is a synopsis of the bill with basic legislative information about it.