Exam 7: Plato Why Should We Be Good

According to Hursthouse, "Although virtue ethics has grown remarkably in the last thirty years, it is still very much in the minority, particularly in the area of ..."

Aristotle says, "By __________, I mean appetite, anger, fear, confidence, envy, joy, friendly feeling, hatred, longing, emulation, pity, and in general the feelings that are accompanied by pleasure or pain."

Aristotle says, "With regard to pleasures and pains-not all of them, and not so much with regard to the pains-the mean is __________, the excess self-indulgence."

Explain what Kant means when he says, "There is in fact no other determination of the elective will, except that to an end, which in the very notion of it implies that I cannot even physically be forced to it by the elective will of others."

According to Thomson, "the arguments against abortion we are looking at do grant that the woman has a right to decide what happens in and to her body. But although they do grant it, I have tried to show that they ..."

According to Singer, "it should be clear that we would have to give away enough to ensure that the consumer society, dependent as it is on people spending on trivia rather than giving to famine relief, would slow down and perhaps disappear entirely." Do you agree with Singer?

According to Hanley, "We certainly have no evidence that God generally disapproves of alternatives (e.g., bicycles) to his more direct gifts (e.g., legs). So such claims cannot reasonably be used to argue for the existence of God."

Marquis considers two rival accounts to his theory that have different implications for the ethics of abortion; they are: the serendipity effect and the stochastic effect.

According to Huxley, "To the struggle for bare existence, which never ends, though it may be alleviated and partially disguised for a fortunate few, succeeded the struggle to make existence intelligible and to bring the order of things into harmony with the ..."

According to Hume, "Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our __________; what each man feels within himself is the standard of __________."

According to Singer, "I shall argue that the way people in relatively affluent countries react to a situation like that in Bengal cannot be justified; indeed, the whole way we look at moral issues-our moral conceptual scheme-needs to be altered, and with it, the way of life that has come to be taken for granted in our society."

According to Aristotle, intellectual virtue is a product of habit.

According to Thomson, "The emendation which may be made at this point is this: the right to life consists not in the right not to be killed, but rather in the right not to be killed unjustly."

According to Thomson, "I have throughout been speaking of the fetus merely as a person, and what I have been asking is whether or not the argument we began with, which proceeds only from the fetus's being a person, really does establish its conclusion. I have argued that ..."

Describe Socrates's metaphor of the human soul and how it relates to justice and injustice.

According to Hume, "Twist and turn this matter as much as you will, you can never rest the morality on relation; but must have recourse to the decisions of ..."

Explain what Kant means when he says, "The impulses of nature, then, contain hindrances to the fulfilment of duty in the mind of man, and resisting forces, some of them powerful; and he must judge himself able to combat these and to conquer them by means of reason."

Hume says, "we shall analyze that complication of mental qualities, which form what, in common life, we call Religious Belief: we shall consider every attribute of the mind, which renders a man an object either of esteem and affection, or of hatred and contempt; every habit or sentiment or faculty, which, if ascribed to any person, implies either praise or blame."

According to Wong, "A reason why relativism has been feared is the thought that it could easily slide into moral ..."

According to Singer, a point that relates to the question of just how much we all ought to be giving away "is that we ought to give until we reach the level of _________________, that is, the level at which, by giving more, I would cause as much suffering to myself or my dependents as I would relieve by my gift."