Philosophy Final Essay Worksheet

Philosophy 1110
Spring 2019
Philosophy Final EssayWorksheet
The primary goal of this worksheet is to help you prepare for your final essay. By answering the
questions below, you will, in effect, be producing an outline of your essay. Please type your
answers. And please submit only the questions and your answers. (I don’t want your worksheet
to include the various instructions and notes provided here. It should just be a list of questions
and answers.)
This assignment is worth 15% of your overall mark.Please keep your answers brief. Save the
detailed explanations for the essay.
This is not a group project. You must complete this assignment on your own. You may, however,
draw arguments, objections, etc., from the readings,class discussions, lecture notes, or from on-
line sources, provided that you put them in your own words. You must also cite your
sources.Failure to do that constitutes plagiarism – a very serious academic offence. Citations
should be in-text (so not just a list of sources at the end of the document).
Here are the essay topics:
Do we – those of us who have choices about what we eat – have a moral obligation to
become vegetarian?In other words, is it morally wrong for us to eat meat?

Was it morally wrong for Dignitas to help Dan James commit suicide?
You are also welcome to come up with your own topic. However, it must be related to the
material we have covered this term and you MUST get my approval before you begin work on
your topic.
I know you have all submitted debate worksheets on the first question. If you choose to write
your final essay on this topic, you cannot simply cut and paste the answers from the debate
worksheet into the essay worksheet. The answers in your essay worksheet should be substantial
revisions of the answers provided in the debate worksheet.
Here are the worksheet questions:
1. What is your topic?
The topic for debate is the abolishment of capital punishment. The major question
raised under this debate is whether the act of death penalty is suitable for some countries and
abominable for the other countries, or is the practice, universally despicable?
2. Why is this topic important?
The practice of capital punishment is questioned on humanitarian grounds by many agencies.
The importance of capital punishment lies in the fact that it serves as an instrument of fear for
the culprits and the people who are involved in such serious crimes. Capital punishment