Thesis statement: Moral upbringing does not dictate ones’ future.
Moral Luck
o Berry Jenkins, Moonlight ( This is the MOVIE )
o Claudia Card, “Responsibility and Moral Luck” ( THIS is the article that needs to be work cited )
EACH RESPONSE NEEDS TO:
1) have a title
2) answer the question.
3) bold main claim (otherwise known as a thesis)
4) have a beginning (introduces the text you are writing about and the topic), a middle (the
bulk of the paper where you make an argument), and an end (where you tell me what you
wrote about).
5) analyze at least one quotation from the text.
6) cite quotations properly (Plato, Republic, 430a2).
7) be broken into multiple paragraphs that communicate a thought and build on each other to
argue for your claim. This should look like a mini-paper.
8) be no longer than 400 words.
9) reference readings and the film.
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Philosophy of film
Thesis statement: Moral upbringing does not dictate ones’ future.
In the movie Moonlight by Berry Jenkins, we encounter a young man named Chiron, who stays in an abandoned building with his single mother, Paula. The young boy endures abuse from his mother and from his peers who treat him as ‘little.’ On the other hand, the Claudia Card presents a unique piece that we do not stand an equal chance to be morally upright. She clearly states that we are not autonomous agents of luck. In his work, Nagel uses paradox to reject the influence of success on moral responsibility. Chiron, in the film, moonlight, plays a crucial role in showing how luck can play a significant role in his later life (Card & Claudia, 2010).
A person can only be responsible for what they...
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