Entries by dpogreba

The Trolley Problem

The philosophical dilemma of the “trolley problem”: Moral philosophers have long debated under what circumstances it is acceptable to kill and why, for example, we object to killing a patient for their organs, but not to a distribution of resources that funds some drugs rather than others. To understand the debate you need to understand […]

Gladwell, Whitman, Parallelism Test

The test will have three portions: identification (short paragraphs about significant parts of the text, paragraph responses (Whitman and Gladwell), and parallelism correction. Some of the resources for next week’s exam are located in various locations: Parallelism and practice exercises Whitman notes and poems Responses to Gladwell: Mr. Lucky and The Elements of Success