The focus of Unit 5 is Deontology, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t see competing schools of ethics within Bierce’s short story “A Horseman in the Sky,” which appears in chapter five. Ethics is about dilemmas and choices, often at competition with one another for resolution. Situate this story within a few competing ethical theories. Integrate at least two other readings from this chapter and/or prior chapters.
Stuff to consider:
Duty (institutional, national, familial)
Moral Sensibility
Consequences (Consequentialism, Utilitarianism)
Individual consequences
Institutional consequences
Categorical Imperatives
Competing Interest
Obligations
Jingoism
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