Exam 7: Ethics

Ethics is the study of

John Finnis endorses ____________________ ____________________ ethics.

Do you believe that abortion is ever morally acceptable? If so, under what circumstances? If not, why not? In both cases you must justify your views. Do your views on the morality of abortion commit you to any position on the question of whether or not it should be legal? Explain your answer here.

Plato discussed three active principles in each person: reason, spirit, and anger.

Nel Noddings argues that

The view that there is only one correct morality is

Aristotle endorsed:

Would you walk away from Omelas? If you would, do you believe that you would thereby be partially to blame for the suffering that you left behind, if you did not attempt to stop it? Or could you coherently argue that you were not so responsible, on the grounds that holding you to be responsible for it would be to endorse an aspect of an ethical view (i.e., the lack of a distinction between acts and omissions) that you are rejecting by walking away?

Do you believe that an Aristotelian virtue ethicist is committed to being concerned with the virtue of caring? If so, in what way would Aristotle's views need to be revised¾if at all? If not, explain why not.

Epicurus was concerned with "sober thinking".

In what ways are ethical egoism and utilitarianism similar, and in what ways are they different? Which do you believe is the more persuasive of the two theories?

Carol Gilligan criticized the model of stages of moral development developed by ____________________.

Aristotle argued that correct ____________________ is based on two people's mutual recognition of the goodness of the other.

Donald Levy believes that sexual acts that cannot result in reproduction are wrong.

Kant's categorical imperative states that we should do something only if we are willing to have the maxim governing our action become ____________________ ____________________.