Exam #3 Final Exam

 

Dear Ethics students,


Because I have given you all the questions in advance, I cannot give the answers also. If I were to do so, students could just memorize and not have to think about philosophy and right & wrong at all.


So rather than have you have to guess what the questions might  be, I have given you the questions. If you use your notes and studies and other available materials to come know the answers well, I can then see your work in your very fine answers on the exam. I will be assured that you know well key issues in the philosophers.  And that is exactly what I am looking for and what I think is good for the development your mind and moral thinking.



Final Exam (20% of course grade)


13 December 2018 at 8:00-10:00 am


Part I 40% All students must answer this question and provide an outline of the answer.

In light of our study of various ethical theories in this course,

(A) select 4 moral teachings you find of value for your own moral thinking and explain what they are in detail;  then

(B)

(i) state what are the ultimate goals and fundamental principles of your own ethics that brought you to make the selection in (A) above; next

(ii) state what are the reasoning and insights have led you to embrace the ultimate goals and fundamental principles you indicate in (i).

Finally,

(iii) raise an objection to your position or a significant part of it and respond to the objection using at least one example to illustrate the reasonableness and positive value of your own position.


Part II 20% Answer only one of the two questions below.

1. Explain Donagan’s views on elective abortion.

2. Explain why Donagan rejects the theory of Double Effect and explain the theory he replaces it with.


Part III 20% Answer five questions only.  Only eight (8) of the following questions will be on the exam.

1. What is synderesis?

2. What is the principle of culture?

3. What is the principle of beneficence?

4. What are first order questions?

5. What are second order questions?

6. What are intension and extension?

7. What is a culpably erroneous conscience?

8. What is the principle of double effect?

9. What is the fundamental principle?

  1. 10.What are the “Pillars of Islam”?

  2. 11.How does the holy scripture of Islam, the Qur’an, differ from the other scriptures of the major religions of the Abrahamic Traditions, that is, from the scriptures of Judaism and Christianity?


Part IV 20% Explain some major objections to traditional Western morality by those who hold for ethical egoism and those who hold for moral relativism. Then provide your own analyses and judgments on whether traditional Western morality can stand up to those objections.