This assignment is an essay that brings all of the knowledge and skills developed in this course to bear on a single eth

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This assignment is an essay that brings all of the knowledge and
skills developed in this course
to bear on a single ethical issue. You will write an 1800–2000-word
essay (not including
footnotes, the title page, table of contents, and bibliography)
that combines the insights and
arguments of the second and third discussions into a single
carefully-articulated work. Format
should be 12pt, Times New Roman font and in Turabian format.
INSTRUCTIONS
Begin your paper with a brief introductory paragraph that clearly
states your goals, thesis, and
method. State what metaethical theory you are defending, the issue
in applied ethics you are
addressing, the conclusion(s) you want to defend.
Next, provide a lengthy and detailed defense of the metaethical
theory you defended in
Discussion: Compare and Contrast Metaethical Theories. This will
likely reflect what you
argued for in your thread and the feedback that you received from
the professor and/or
classmates who responded to your thread. Here you can go into much
more detail than you could
in the discussion, which was limited to 600 words. If you have
changed your mind since
Discussion: Compare and Contrast Metaethical Theories and wish to
defend a different
theory, you may do so. This section of the Capstone Essay
Assignment would be roughly half
of your paper (three to four pages).
Next, proceed to the applied ethics issue that you discussed in
your Discussion: Ethical
Application thread. Here you should greatly expand upon your
argument. Add detail, nuance,
and argumentation, providing a fairly complete and comprehensive
application based on the
theory you defend in the first half of the paper. You may
illustrate the application with real-life
examples, but please do not fill your paper with anecdotes. You
should anticipate possible
objections to your approach to the issue and respond to them in an
objective and informed
manner. (For ideas on how others might object to your approach, a
good place to begin would be
your classmate’s reply to your thread, but you need not stop there.
Many books and articles have
been published on issues in applied ethics, and these can provide a
wealth of possible arguments
relevant to every issue.) You are encouraged to use quotes from
sources as a way to support your
arguments, but quotes should not make up more than one and a half
pages of your essay.
Your conclusion should reflect what you have argued in your thesis.
It should recap what you
have accomplished and how you have accomplished it.
This paper is not required to utilize any sources outside of those
that were used in the class (the
two textbooks, the videos, and the PointCast presentations), but
the use of additional resources is
permitted and encouraged. At the minimum, the paper should utilize
the resources from the class.
All resources used must be listed in the bibliography and any
resources quoted, paraphrased, or
alluded to must be documented via footnotes formatted according to
Turabian. Sources such as
Wikipedia and online dictionaries do not count as academic sources
and should not be used.
Biblical references are encouraged, but will not count as an
academic source.