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Philosophy 302: Ethics
Position Paper Topics

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~ ~ Topics and Due Dates for Fall, 2008~ ~
IMPORTANT:
One point/day is deducted from paper grade for every day paper topic is not chosen after 20 November 2008. Five points/day are deducted for late papers posted after 20 November 2008. No late comments are accepted for credit after 4 December 2008. Your topic must be approved in advance.  Email larchie@philosophy.lander.edu 

 

Paper Topic

Paper Due
Thursday
Nov. 20

Comments Due Thursday
Dec. 4

1. What is the difference between a moral and a nonmoral issue?


Robin Ramey
 

2. Should our conscience determine what actions are morally right and morally wrong?

James Saxon  

3. Should reason alone be used to determine which actions are morally right and morally wrong?


Heather Leslie
 

4. Are there universal moral principles that are right for all persons at all times?


Melissa Hess
 

5. Should we act morally solely because of divine will?


 

6. Is acting morally necessary for happiness?


Megan McKee

 

7. Should we act morally only because it is to the overall advantage to society?


Jarrod Pawlak

 

8. Can a clear distinction between instrumental good and intrinsic good be maintained?

   

9. Is pleasure an intrinsic good?

Ashley W. King  

10. Is the fulfillment of desire an intrinsic good?

   

11. Is Bentham’s hedonistic calculus practicable?

   

12. Is beauty an intrinsic good?

Haleigh Whisnant

 

13. Is knowledge an intrinsic good?

Jonathan Abercrombie  

14. Are moral qualities an intrinsic good?


Bionica Riley
 

15. Is "Socrates dissatisfied better than a pig satisfied"?

   

16. Is happiness just the sum of individual pleasures?


Candace Franklin
 

17. Is pleasure merely a side-product of activity?

   

18. Does psychological egoism commit the fallacy of overgeneralization?

   

19. Is psychological egoism tautologous?

   

20. Are all human actions unconsciously and egoistically motivated?

 

 

21. Do people always do what they desire most?


Lauren Mulz

 

22. Can personal ethical egoism be refuted?

   

23. Can individual ethical egoism be refuted?

   

24. Can universal ethical egoism be refuted?

   

25. Can the distinction between a higher and a lower pleasure be maintained?

   

26. Can we always distinguish between the things in our control and the things outside our control, as the Stoics believe?

   

27. Can all persons be happy?

Patrice Kelly  
27a. Some people cannot be happy.    

28. Are all moral qualities means between extremes?

   

29. What does it mean to realize your potential?


Britney Howard
 

30. Should all persons seek the dominant theme pattern of self-realization?

   

31. What is a maximally coherent system of mutually harmonious fulfillments?

   

32. Is ethics reducible to biology?

   

33. Is ethical egoism self-contradictory or merely inconsistent?

   

34. Is ethical egoism a complete theory?

   

35. In ethics, do the ends ever justify the means?

Cary A. Griffin  

 


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