For this forum, choose one of the following topics to respond to for your initial post. When you respond to your peers please respond, if possible, to a learner who has posted a contrary view on the topic you selected and then, at a minimum respond to at least one learner who has posted on the topic you did not select.
Topic A: Eastern Ethics and Natural Law
Do some research on one of the Eastern systems and then compare it to either Aristotle’s virtue theory or Aquinas’ Natural Law Theory in terms of which seems more reasonable. Which seems more coherent and able to be followed and which might help a person formulate a plan that would produce more morally acceptable behavior.
Topic B: Anthropocene Extinction
The research is dire; we may well be in what many are calling the Anthropocene Extinction. Below is one section of a larger report on what the Institute of Public Policy Research is calling an environmental crisis. Imagine you are in a position of authority, what realistic actions could a virtuous leader take to address this crisis? How, exactly, would those actions help the situation? Alternatively, assemble research arguing that there is no crisis or that it is just too late, and we should accept our fate and ride this right into extinction.