Short Answer


1		What argument did G. E. Moore give to support his claim that goodness can't be identical with pleasure (or any other natural property, for that matter)?



2		What's a prima facie duty, how do such duties differ from your actual duty, and what we do in a situation where they conflict, according to W. D. Ross?



3		What's the connection between justice, fairness, agreement, rationality, and self-interest for John Rawls?



4		What are you entitled to and what is a just society, according to libertarian Robert Nozick?



5		What is Alasdair MacIntyre's narrative concept of the self, and how does it tie into his communitarian virtue ethics?



6		What does it mean to say that good is a non-natural property? Explain in your own words Moore's reasons for saying that good is not equivalent to any natural property.



7		Can an unequal distribution of the various assets of society be just? Explain.



8		Explain the differences among liberalism, communism, socialism, capitalism, fascism, and conservatism.



9		Critically discuss Marcuse's theory that the needs satisfied by advanced capitalist societies are to a large extent false needs.



10		Can you think of an ethical principle that would prohibit the killing, hurting, sacrificing, or eating of humans for the sake of other ends that would not equally pertain to animals?

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