homework, chapter 3 (summer A)

Homework 1

1. what is ethics?
2. are there moral values? where do moral values come from? click here for triff's lecture on moral judgments, 
3. what's overridingness?
4. what do moral theories explain?

5. what is the difference between moral absolutism and moral objectivism?
6. what is moral relativism?
7. explain the difference between subjective relativism and cultural relativism.

Homework 2

1. explain the difference between act and rule utilitarianism (target your answer in following the example of the terminally ill woman on p. 156).
2. jeremy bentham and john stuart mill have different views on the nature of happiness. explain.
3. read the death penalty example on page 160 (between retentionists and abolitionists). the discussion pivots on utilitarianism.
4. answer questions 1-5 from section 3.3 p. 169

Homework 3

1. Define pertect and imperfect duties.
2. What is Kant's Categorical Imperative?
3. Explain Kant's Second Formulation

Homework 4,
1. What is virtue according to Aristotle?