Discuss the example of Harry Truman dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the context of the Utilitarian and Kantian principles.

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• Discuss the example of Harry Truman dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the context of the Utilitarian and Kantian principles. Also include a discussion of Elizabeth Anscombe’s critic of Truman.
• Describe the Categorical Imperative. Be sure to include a description of how Kant derives the principle from an understanding that Morality is a matter of reason not emotion.
• What is Kant’s argument against lying? What is problematic about it, and what happens when it comes into conflict with other absolute rules?
• How do Kant’s core values cause him to embrace retribution, and reject rehabilitation?
• What are the Utilitarian arguments for the implementation of retribution?
• Discuss Kolberg’s six stages of moral development. Include in your discussion the examples of Amy and Jake, and how their different approaches to a moral dilemma would be understood in the context of Kohlberg’s theory.
• Discuss Giligan’s Objection to Kolberg’s labeling of Amy and Jake. What are the differences between the way men and women approach moral dilemma’s according to Giligan?
• Discuss the ethics of care. How does it differ from the pre-dominantly male oriented approaches to morality that have been discussed?