NOTE: For this paper, I need the first part completed for about 4 pages using John Stuart Mill’s “Utilitarianism” and Charles Eisenstein’s “Sacred Economics” (http://sacred-economics.com/online-text/)(-most of it is on the site). I will be completing the second part. Thank you. ENDNOTE
In this class we have both surveyed some of the classics of the tradition of ethical theory and looked at one of the most provocative and timely contributions to what ethics might mean in contemporary life.
In this 8-10 page paper, critically and creatively assess the arguments of Charles Eisenstein’s Sacred Economics by doing two things. In the first half of your paper, use one of the ethical perspectives we covered in this class (Aristotle, Kant, Mill, and Kierkegaard) to either support or critique Eisenstein’s perspective. In the second half of your paper, use your own judgment to assess the value of Eisenstein’s work.
Eisenstein’s book is large and is full of many provocative ideas. He also proposes a number of different ways to comprehend the problem of our contemporary economic life, and he further poses a number of different ways to address those problems. You are by no means expected to take up every aspect of Eisenstein’s book. Focus on what is most interesting, troubling, exciting, or disconcerting to you about his proposals.
The way you will be graded on this essay is 1.) how accurately you represent Eisenstein’s views, 2.) how accurately you represent what one of our ethical theorists might say about Eisenstein’s work, and 3.) how clearly and creatively you present your own reaction to Eisenstein.
References should be given in MLA style.
Essays received after that deadline are subject to a one-letter grade per day late penalty.
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