Explain Singer's arguments concerning the permissibility of disobedience, civil or otherwise. Singer presents four different perspectives on environmental ethics or environmental thinking. Explain the main points of any two of these, as well as Singer's critique of each of them. Describe the main points of Singer's own environmental ethic. Give your response to Singer's arguments.
Singer refers to the legitimacy of killing fetuses.
Describe and motivate Descartes's Method of Doubt. Be sure to distinguish the different grades of doubt, and how they differ in strength. Some of Descartes' contemporaries took offense, in the name of religion, at Descartes's supposing that God might be so malicious as to deceive us absolutely. Give several alternative interpretations, and justify your own interpretation. Explain how Descartes's claims about the certainty of what seems to be the case trades the scope of his claim against the degree of its certainty .