Ethical SystemslMidterm Study Questions and Prompts
STUDY QUESTIONS:
What are Immanuel Kant’s classifications of imperatives and how are they positioned
Q) within his brand of deontological ethics?
I. Describe why john Stuart Mill’s ethical theory of “Utilitarianism’.’ is a hedonistic system.
6211 Why does Mill focus on the qualitative over the quantitative when determining the
hedonistic characteristics of a moral dilemma?
99 ‘ Discuss the dialectic that exists between a consequéntialist/utilitarian ethical system and a
deontological ethical system in terms of their empirical or metaphysical characteristics.
What is Immanuel Kant’s position on the concept of happiness when determining morality,
and what is the lens of value that establishes the moral from the immoral in his ethical
system?
A Describe how the “golden mean” works within Aristotle’s theory on virtue ethics. How
does subjective and objective judgment relate to this concept?
5 Describe the type of hedonism for which Epicurus advocates. How do his ideas on
hedonism compare with the normative ethical systems of Mills and Aristotle?
Discuss Daniel Kahneman’s two classifications of thinking and the roles that intuition, bias,
‘9); and heuristic cognition play. How do Kahneman’s ideas complicate the ethical systems
outlined by Kant and Mill?
Q Describe how metaphysics is at the core of both Aristotle and Immanuel Kant’s normative
(pi ethical systems. In what ways do their uses of idealism differ?
Ethical Systems, Midterm Exam, Fall 2014, Douglas Green,
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