SP & HP, meet IP!
You know You know about scientific progress (SP). You know about human progress (HP). But what about IP: Imaginative Progress? Science gives you data to achieve scientific progress. The decision to accept others as human and so as meriting rights gives you justice to achieve human progress. What leaps the gap between data and justice? Imagination. Imaginative progress (IP) happens when the imagination expands to envision the human situation so as to bridge the gap between data and decision.
SP (data)
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HP (justice)
Topic Choice A: HP
Type a 4-page paper (the works-cited list is page 5) in which you explain core concepts and practices of genetic engineering and establish the human-progress validity (Kantian validity: freedom and equality) of a California law you have formulated to govern the use of this technology.
Do the Key College-Paper Moves: To explain and demonstrate in a concise, precise, clear way.
Do the Key Kantian Moves: Understand the science (SP), reason about the law (HP)
Title: Two parts, separated by a colon, a grab reader part then an embody the thesis part
Thesis: Would be a sentence stating the law and its basis.
Page #1, par 1: intro + thesis
Page #1, par 2 to Page 2 par 2: Explain the SP of genetic engineering
Page #3 to Page 4 par 1: establish the human-progress validity and necessity of the law you have formulated to govern the use of this technology.
the rights at stake: whose? what?
the law to protect those rights
institution
Page 4 par 2: Conclusion
Page 5 Works Cited
