1. What is a teleological ethical theory?
2. What is a deontological ethical theory?
3. Describe Aristotle's doctrine of the mean.
4. What does it mean for Aristotle to say that the state is
prior to the individual?
5. What is Kant's categorical imperative?
6. How do the universality and respect-for-persons formulations
of the categorical imperative differ?
7. Why, for Kant, is a lying promise morally wrong?
8. What are the four major requirements of right action in
Aristotle's ethics?
9. Explain briefly the importance of the notion that community
is part of the development of character in Aristotle's ethics.
10. How does Socrates describe justice in the Republic?
11. For Socrates/Plato, what is the three part division of the soul
and the state?
12. How can the notion of 'virtue' be described for Aristotle's
ethical theory?
13. Explain why "vice" is either an excess or a deficiency.
14. Why, for Kant, is a good will the only thing good without qualification?
15. State what, in your view, is Kant's primary reason for claiming
that morality should not be based on consequences of actions.
16. Explain why, for Kant, happiness cannot be the defining feature
of a moral theory.