Does Life Have Meaning?

The Moral LifeChapter 9: Does Life Have Meaning? Do not consult or integrate any outside source(s) into your written assignments during the process of brainstorming, drafting, and submitting writing. I want everyone to consult only the textbook and any other source (video or otherwise) to which I have linked in our course site. In essence, I want to see only what YOUR ideas are in relationship to the assigned readings from our textbook. **This means do not consult or integrate any internet or print (or whatever) sources into your writing. Since I am enacting this measure, you do not need to include a Works Cited at the end of your writing, as I will know your only source is our book. **Do include the page numbers from the textbook within parentheses for any information from the textbook which you integrate into your writing. **The citations should conform to the MLA style guide. Cite each reading as a selection in an anthology (our textbook). Style (organization, presentation, fluency, and development) along with writing skills (grammar and mechanics) work hand-in-hand with content. **You should be using some apt, succinct quotes from the readings in the book to exemplify and illustrate your points. Be sure to fully explain any cited information making clear, overt connections to the point you are trying to make before moving on from the quoted material.For this Discussion-Essay topic, I am going to leave it somewhat vague in order to give you some room to explore the question: “Does Life Have Meaning?” Now, I do want to issue a little guidance here: This is to be an academic response, so your writing must be anchored in the areas of ethics we have studied this semester. ** In addition to the three sources from Chapter 9 that I want you to substantively cover, I also want you to consider three of the schools of ethics we have explored this semester. In that sense, this will be a little bit of a comprehensive look back at what we’ve studied to apply to the question, “Does Life Have Meaning?” So, what I would like for you to try to do with this topic is answer personally whether life has meaning. And if it does, why? Based on what, looking back at reading we’ve done this semester? You may agree or disagree with any aspect of the ethical approaches we’ve covered this semester. You may pick-and-choose only parts of any of them to either agree or disagree with. You’ll need to provide specificity, so don’t leave your writing at too general a level. And remember that an essay is a unified piece of writing, so make sure that all sections of your paper connect to a central idea (thesis).A minimum of three sources from the chapter must be aptly and substantively integrated into the submission. **A minimum of three schools of ethics must be addressed in the essay. I feel compelled to issue this one caveat: Do not make an exclusively faith-based argument. Again, anchor your writing in the academic course material. There are probably areas of “faith” that are fair game from what we’ve covered, such as Ernest certainly having “faith” that the “promised one” was coming, but Ernest was a seeker and a doer, and ended-up “becoming” the chosen one because of emulation, akin to emulating the “saints and heroes,” and not simply having faith.