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