Essay – Philosophy

1. Address one of the Ethical Issues raised by Advertising and defend your own position with reference to course material. You’ll need to find an issue worth writing on – something debatable, about which you can develop your own argument. Arrington’s philosophically meaty article is a good source of questions. (Unit 8)
2. For example, is puffery ethical? – consider theorists who criticize and defend puffery, and argue your own position taking account of counter-arguments.
3. Or does advertising undermine autonomy or “create desires” in a sinister way? – consider what autonomy is, Galbraith and Hayek’s arguments, and defend your own position against counter-arguments.
4. You can also consider issues more briefly touched upon, like the ethics of advertising to children or teenagers, but in such cases you’d benefit from outside research.

READ NOTES BEFORE STARTING ESSAY.

I ATTACHED MY COURSE NOTES THAT YOU WILL NEED TO READ AND INCORPORATE INTO THE ESSAY, IF ITS NOT TIED INTO THE ESSAY I WILL BE RELEASING A LOWER %.