Ethics In Society Project

Ethics in Society Project

Instructions: This assignment requires that you construct a PowerPoint (or similar) presentation that explores the ethics behind a social justice cause or movement. People join social justice movements to achieve equity, inclusion, and justice for entities such as humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment.

Select a social justice movement and discuss how at least two ethical concepts listed below have been or could be used to create social change.

Your presentation must address the following:

• Briefly explain the history of the social movement.
• What ethical problem are activists hoping to solve?
• What is their ethical motivation for joining together to elicit social change?

Include at least two of the following ethical concepts:

• Empathy
• Beneficence
• Nonmaleficence
• Autonomy
• Fairness
• Justice
• Motive
• Consequences
• Free Will
• Determinism
• Punishment
• Natural Rights
• Contractarian Rights
• Equity
• Duty
• Welfarism
• Retributivism
• Speciesism

Have at least 7 slides (including title and reference). Use the book as a reference and list it at the end of the presentation. You may include graphics or other visual aids to enhance your presentation.