Assignment:
Part 1
Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions. Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments, if possible. Each response should be at least one half of one page in length and utilize APA format.
1. What is the difference between moral motivation and moral justification?
2. Explain the difference between natural morality and transcendent morality.
3. What is the difference between a moral judgment and an aesthetic judgment?
4. What does it meant to be an "objectivist" regarding moral feelings?
5. Describe the difference between sentimentalism and intuitionism. Does one theory seem more plausible than the other? Explain.
6. Describe the difference between objective and subjective sentimentalism. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each position?
Part 2
Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions. Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments. Each response should be at least one half of one page in length and utilize APA format.
1. According to Kant, when is an action morally praise-worthy?
2. Describe one of the criticisms often leveled against Kant's theory.
3. Although the two versions of the categorical imperative appear different, Kant contends that they are two ways of stating the same thing. How does Kant support his claim?
4. What is the difference between a qualitative pleasure and a quantitative pleasure?
5. What is the difference between a teleological theory and a deontological theory of ethics?
Part 3
Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions. Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments. Each response should be at least one half of one page in length and utilize APA format.
1. What is the difference between a moral judgment and an aesthetic judgment?
2. Define cultural relativism.
3. Describe the problems with cultural relativism. In light of its problems, are there any valuable insights the theory brings to moral theorizing?
4. What is a moral saint?
5. Why does Susan Wolf have a problem with the idea of moral saints?
6. How does value pluralism differ from political pluralism? Can one be a value pluralist without being a political pluralist? Explain.
Part 4
Directions:Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions. Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments. Each response should be at least one half of one page in length and utilize APA format.
1. What is the role of the 'veil of ignorance' in Rawls's theory?
2. Define constructivism.
3. What is the 'prisoner's dilemma?'
4. In what ways does Gauthier's contract approach differ from that of Rawls? In what ways are they similar? Explain.
5. Define care ethics.
6. What is a "feminine" ethic?
Part 5
Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions. Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments. Each response should be at least one half of one page in length and utilize APA format.
1. According to virtue ethicists, how are virtues acquired?
2. What is situationist psychology?
3. List and briefly describe one of the criticisms of virtue ethics.
4. What is "The Golden Mean?"
5. Why is virtue ethics particularly well-suited to the medical profession?
Part 6
Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions. Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments. Each response should be at least one half of one page in length and utilize APA format.
1. What does it mean to be "due moral consideration" and "the subject of a life?"
2. Compare and contrast utilitarian and eastern views on moral standing.
3. What is "intentionality" and what role does it play in moral agency?
4. What does it mean to say that humans and nonhumans can form and act on intentions they cannot conceptually order or explain.
Part 7
Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions. Each response should be at least one half of one page in length and utilize APA format.
1. What is Ockham's Razor and to what extent does it work for or against the non-objectivist view?
2. What is the argument from queerness, and what roles does Ockham's Razor play in the argument?
3. What does it mean to give an evolutionary account of moral values?
4. Define "noncognitivism."
5. Define moral realism.
6. Compare and contrast moral realism and nonobjectivism. Which approach is more compelling? Explain.
7. What is a paradigm shift?
8. What role does intuition or exalted powers of reason play in contemporary realist theories?
Part 8
Directions: Please provide detailed and elaborate responses to the following questions. Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments, if possible. Each response should be at least one half of one page in length and utilize APA format.
1. What is the difference between determinism and fatalism?
2. Describe one of the problems with the existentialist libertarian view.
3. Describe the two reactions to determinism.
4. Explain what C. A. Campbell means by a "contracausal free will." Describe the problems with this approach to free will.
5. Define moral responsibility.
6. What is the difference between role responsibility and moral responsibility?
7. Explain how Strawson justifies the notion of moral responsibility.
8. What is a participant reactive attitude?