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Assignment: Answer all of the questions in 2-4 sentence paragraph, unless the question requires a one-word or one-sentence answer. Your answers must be according to the lecture and the reading, and demonstrate a comprehension of them. Do not write as part of your answer "depends on the individual", "everybody thinks about it differently", "this is just how I feel" or anything else of the sort - this is not a class on relativism.
All citations from the text must be in quotation marks, with a page number. All paraphrasing from the text must be provided with a page number. Unless there are quotation marks - you need to use your own words (and I do not mean change a few words). Read the relevant passages from the text and then restate them in your own words to answer the question and do what the parts ask you to do. Simply writing relevant things, or summaries, without answering the question or doing what the section asks - will not earn credit. Do all of the sections.
Use numbers - and answer under those numbers. Do not include the question.
In 1-6,the answers should be according to the lecture and the reading. Your opinion is needed in 7-10.
1. What are the reasons why the newspaper would say it is justified in publishing the cartoons? (Hint: freedom of speech is not the reasons why)
2. Is censoring cartoons justified or not - on the basis of the principle of autonomy? Why or why not? (Hint: think about the principle of the freedom of speech with regard to publishing the cartoons)
3. Is censoring cartoons justified or not - in terms of the consequences? Why or why not? (Hint: think about the benefits and the harms of publishing the cartoons)
4. What can be said about the publishing of cartoons from the standpoint of wisdom? (Hint: wisdom considers principles, consequences, and alternatives)
5. What is civic multiculturalism?
6. Is the publishing of the cartoons justified from the standpoint of the civic multiculturalism? Why or why not?
7. What do you find to be most convincing about the material of the lecture and the reading?
8. What is the reason for the above?
9. What do you find to be the least convincing about the material of the lecture and the reading?
10. What is the reason for the above?