Assignment 3: Exploring Virtue on the College Campus – Case Study
Case Study:
A young man meets a wonderful girl in his senior year in college. He believes this is the one that he might marry in the future. He is deeply in love with her. He has a problem. After leaving the constraints of parental authority at home, he went wild as a party animal at college. He was very sexually active in his freshman and sophomore years at college. During that time, he caught genital herpes. (Hint: Think about the following: Were these acts virtuous and honest? To whom? Is the individual responsible for his actions?)
His sister goes to the same college and is friends with her brother’s girlfriend as well as being close to her brother. She knows he has genital herpes. She does not want to hurt him or the relationship but she wonders if she should tell her brother’s girlfriend about her brother’s condition. (Hint: Think about the following: What would be the virtuous and honest thing to do in your own mind. Does the sister have a different relationship and/or responsibility to the girlfriend than the brother? What is the overlap of these relationships? What is the responsibility of the sister to each? What consequences might be expected? Are excesses of lack and excess evident?)
Answer the following three questions in your assignment response. Please read all three questions before beginning. After you have finished answering the three questions, read the new development and answer question 4.
New Development: The sister learns that her brother has decided not to tell his girlfriend until much later if they become serious and he has an outbreak. He also asks his sister to promise to keep his secret. (Hint: Think about what the sister should do now. How do virtue, non-malfeasance, and honesty come into play?)
Remember: address the questions from the position of non-malfeasance, honesty, and virtue, not from an emotional response.
Submit your response to the questions in Part I and II in a cohesive 2–3-page (500–750-word) Microsoft Word document to the M1: Assignment 3 Drop box by Wednesday, November 27, 2013.
All written assignments and responses should follow rules for attributing sources. Be sure to use Microsoft Word spelling/grammar check before submitting your work.
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