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Paper Due
Nov. 11 |
Comments Due
Nov. 18 |
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1. What is the difference between a moral and a nonmoral issue? |
Kendra
Hunter
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2. Should our conscience determine what actions are morally right
and morally wrong? |
Kelly
Hammond |
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3. Should reason alone be used to determine which actions are
morally right and morally wrong? |
Lindsay Parsells
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4. Are there universal moral principles that are right for all
persons at all times? |
Jennifer Novembre
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5. Should we act morally solely because of divine will? |
Stephen Deline
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6. Is acting morally necessary for happiness? |
Sabrina Kelly
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7. Should we act morally only because it is to the overall
advantage to society? |
Anne
Beaudette
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8. Can a clear distinction between instrumental good and
intrinsic good be maintained? |
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9. Is pleasure an intrinsic good? |
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10. Is the fulfillment of desire an intrinsic good? |
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11. Is Bentham’s hedonistic calculus practicable? |
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12. Is beauty an intrinsic good? |
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13. Is knowledge an intrinsic good? |
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14. Are moral qualities an intrinsic good? |
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15. Is "Socrates dissatisfied better than a pig
satisfied"? |
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16. Is happiness just the sum of individual pleasures? |
Kerry Cooper
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17. Is pleasure merely a side-product of activity? |
Ashley King |
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18. Does psychological egoism commit the fallacy of
overgeneralization? |
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19. Is psychological egoism tautologous? |
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20. Are all human actions unconsciously and egoistically
motivated? |
Chance Reynolds |
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21. Do people always do what they desire most? |
Megan McDonnough
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22. Can personal ethical egoism be refuted? |
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23. Can individual ethical egoism be refuted? |
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24. Can universal ethical egoism be refuted? |
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25. Can the distinction between a higher and a lower pleasure be
maintained? |
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26. Can we always distinguish between the things in our control
and the things outside our control, as the Stoics believe? |
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27. Can all persons be happy? |
Joy Joseph |
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happy. |
Marshall Gagne |
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28. Are all moral qualities means between extremes? |
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29. What does it mean to realize your potential? |
Layla Miranda
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30. Should all persons seek the dominant theme pattern of
self-realization? |
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31. What is a maximally coherent system of mutually harmonious
fulfillments? |
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32. Is ethics reducible to biology? |
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33. Is ethical egoism self-contradictory or merely inconsistent? |
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34. Is ethical egoism a complete theory? |
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35. In ethics, do the ends ever justify the means? |
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not productive of the greatest happiness for the greatest number? |
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not do one's duty? |
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| 38. Can religious ethics
be consistent with philosophical ethics? |
Julia Riley |
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| 39. Do self-realization
ethics set up an impossible standard of behavior? |
Dana Hicks |
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40. Distinguish carefully between the shared ideal
of morals and the principles of ethics. |
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41. Are the benefits worth the risk of taking
performance enhancing drugs for a competitive edge? |
Ross Davis |
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