Exam 12: Moral,legal,and Aesthetic Reasoning

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value;or no value at all. Morgan is old enough to have known what would happen if he didn't pay the fine on time.

Identify the moral perspective at work here: At the supermarket,Vickie just ran her cart into a display of jars with jams and preserves,and now the aisle is full of broken glass and jam.She feels like leaving the store as quickly as possible.Is that an acceptable course of action? Yes,it is;because Vickie will be happier if she can just get out of there and avoid the mess.

State whether the reason given here is relevant according to any one of the aesthetic principles;and if it is relevant,identify the principle that makes it so. Raphael's painting is so illuminating because it manifests the Renaissance conviction that the realms of heaven and earth can be merged.

In this pair of cases,the first may serve as precedent for the second.Decide whether the second case is so relevantly similar to the first that it should be decided identically.Explain your decision. First case:The U.S.Supreme Court upheld federal regulations that bar abortion counseling at federally funded family-planning clinics in the United States. Second case:The Supreme Court agreed to review a lower-court decision upholding a Bush administration policy that denied federal family-planning aid to a Mexico City clinic that provided abortion counseling.

In the following,discuss whether Marina is treating relevantly similar cases in sufficiently similar fashions;identify instances in which the cases are not relevantly similar. Marina tells her children not to smoke,but smokes herself.

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value;or no value at all. All cigarette advertising should be strictly regulated.

Identify the moral perspective at work here: Taffy is a university lab chimpanzee;the university has lost its animal research grant and has to decide what to do with Taffy. If the researchers have the proper compassion for Taffy,they should make certain that she is placed with people who will care for her.

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value;or no value at all. You should get rid of your dog's fleas so that it won't be miserable.

In the following,discuss whether Marina is treating relevantly similar cases in sufficiently similar fashions;identify instances in which the cases are not relevantly similar. Marina opposes tyrannical despots in several countries in the world.But even though the government of Almeria is equally tyrannical,she is not inclined to oppose it because she has a friend who works in the Almerian foreign ministry.

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value;or no value at all. The judge in this case is a very informed person.

State whether the following item expresses moral value or nonmoral value;or no value at all. Twenty past ten.We should go home.

Identify the moral perspective at work here: At the supermarket,Vickie just ran her cart into a display of jars with jams and preserves,and now the aisle is full of broken glass and jam.She feels like leaving the store as quickly as possible.Is that an acceptable course of action? No,it isn't,because someone may have seen her knock the display over.If she is caught leaving,she,as well as the store management,will be embarrassed.

For the following,try to come up with an additional premise that will turn the passage into a deductively valid or an inductively strong argument.Usually this requires adding a general moral principle and,sometimes,an extra nonmoral claim as well.The idea is to guarantee that the "ought" claim follows from the "is" claim. Galileo's hypothesis should be suppressed.The biblical account in Ecclesiastes clearly states that the sun rises and sets and hastens to the place where it will rise again.

Identify the moral perspective at work here: At the supermarket,Vickie just ran her cart into a display of jars with jams and preserves,and now the aisle is full of broken glass and jam.She feels like leaving the store as quickly as possible.Is that an acceptable course of action? No,it isn't;our god says that it would be a sin to leave,so she must stay and clean up.

For the following,try to come up with an additional premise that will turn the passage into a deductively valid or an inductively strong argument.Usually this requires adding a general moral principle and,sometimes,an extra nonmoral claim as well.The idea is to guarantee that the "ought" claim follows from the "is" claim. It's time to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba.Doing so will make the hemisphere a safer place.

For the following,try to come up with an additional premise that will turn the passage into a deductively valid or an inductively strong argument.Usually this requires adding a general moral principle and,sometimes,an extra nonmoral claim as well.The idea is to guarantee that the "ought" claim follows from the "is" claim. Smoke from wood-burning stoves has become a serious health hazard.They ought to be banned.

For the following,try to come up with an additional premise that will turn the passage into a deductively valid or an inductively strong argument.Usually this requires adding a general moral principle and,sometimes,an extra nonmoral claim as well.The idea is to guarantee that the "ought" claim follows from the "is" claim. Harold is obligated to supply ten cords of firewood to the lodge by the beginning of October,since he signed a contract guaranteeing delivery of the wood by that date.

Identify the moral perspective at work here: At the supermarket,Vickie just ran her cart into a display of jars with jams and preserves,and now the aisle is full of broken glass and jam.She feels like leaving the store as quickly as possible.Is that an acceptable course of action? No,it isn't,because Vickie couldn't imagine such a behavior becoming a universal law,allowing everybody to run away from his or her responsibility.

Suppose that the following pair of statements appears in a review of the same work of art.Identify which of the aesthetic principles referred to in the text each statement in the pair appeals to.Then state whether the principles are compatible and thus form the basis for a consistent review,or whether they are incompatible and cannot both be used in a consistent review. a.A poem should not mean but be. b.To appreciate Paradise Lost,it is essential to determine whether Milton meant Satan as a figure of evil,or as a liberated and thus attractively heroic figure.

In this pair of cases,the first may serve as precedent for the second.Decide whether the second case is so relevantly similar to the first that it should be decided identically.Explain your decision. First case:On the basis of observation and a car license number,police reasonably suspected Mrs.H of possessing stolen radios.Informed by the manager of her apartment that a man living with her was sickly,officers knocked on the apartment door and received no response but heard "moans and groans." When they were admitted by the manager,no one was present,but one of the stolen radios was in plain sight.On the basis of this information,they obtained a search warrant and seized the radio.Mrs.H was later arrested.A court held that the radio was admissible as evidence:The officers testified that they believed someone in the apartment was in distress and had entered for the purpose of giving aid.The court ruled that this justified what would otherwise have been a trespass. Second case:Mr.G was found by police in his car,unconscious and with a severe knife wound.He was taken to a hospital for surgery,and his clothing was searched for identification.Marijuana was found,and he was arrested for possession of narcotics.