Virtue Ethics

TERM  PAPER

The paper should be about four pages in length (500-750 words). The work is designed as a major essay or research paper (Term Paper) which demonstrates the analytical/synthetic and interpretative approach to Ethics. Using research and class readings, develop the following topics:

1.Describe and critically analyze Virtue Ethics. 2. Do you think that human beings are teleological, that is have a purpose? Is there only one purpose that all human beings share, or do different human beings have different purposes? Explain your answer.
Please apply MLA citation rules to your paper. Critical thinking and originality are required.

These are some of the texts that we read:

Adopted/Required Texts:

1. Plato, Five Dialogues, Hackett Publishing, 2nd Edition, 2002, ISBN 978-0-87220-633-5
2. Noddings, Nel, Caring. A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, University of California Press, 2ndEdition, 2003, 978-0-520-23864-0
3. Kant, Immanuel, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Hackett Publishing, 3rd
Edition, 1993, ISBN 978-0-87220-166-8
4. Bentham and Mill, Classical Utilitarianism, J. Troyer ed., Hackett Publishing, 1st
Edition, 2003, ISBN 0-87220-649-1
5. Gandhi, Mahatma, Selected Political Writings, Hackett Publishing, 1st Edition, 1996,
ISBN 0-87220-330-1