PSY 570 Module Ten Short Paper
The four short paper assignments in this course provide you with an opportunity to explore course concepts to develop your own ideas about ethics in psychology. For your final short paper assignment, you will read the excerpt from Susan Sontag’s book, Regarding the Pain of Others.
What is your interpretation of the excerpt? Discuss what you believe Sontag is saying in this excerpt. Discuss your thoughts on Sontag’s claim that remembering is an ethical act.
Do you agree with Sontag? Explain your reasoning. Explore the implications of Sontag’s claim for ethics in psychology.
What thoughts do you have on this excerpt and its relevance to ethics in psychology?
Search Shapiro Library for scholarly resources about Sontag’s life then discuss how what you have learned about Sontag influences your understanding of her writing.
Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2–3 page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one- inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others Excerpt Susan Sontag is an author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and many works of nonfiction. She has received the National Book Award for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism and the Jerusalem Prize for her body of work. She also received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. “Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead. So the belief that remembering is an ethical act is deep in our natures as humans, who know we are going to die, and who mourn those who in the normal course of things die before us—grandparents, parents, teachers, and older friends. Heartlessness and amnesia seem to go together” (Sontag, 2003, 115).