For your final exam, answer one question from each of the following three sections of essay questions, so three essays in all. While answering these questions, make sure you accurately use 10 terms we have learned so far in this class, 8 since the midterms and 2 from the first half of the course. Eligible terms are found after the essay questions. Make sure the term you use is bolded in your essay answer at least once, hopefully where you are using it most effectively. Each essay should be word-processed, double-spaced, proofread, have a proper header, properly cited (in text page citations are fine for use of the textbook but page numbers must be included), and show your own understanding of course material. Please do not use any source other than assigned course material – no web/Google searches, etc.! Each essay should probably be not less than two, and certainly not more than five, pages long.
Section A: Ethics
Compare Aristotle’s, Mill’s, and Kant’s ethics by looking at what they consider as the highest/final end of action. Who do you think has a better account of this highest end?
Is Care Ethics more of a teleological or deontological ethical theory? Explain
Can teleological and deontological ethics be reconciled with one another? If not, why not? If yes, how so?
Section B: God Questions
What do you think is the proper relationship between reason and faith? OR
Why is God such a compelling question for philosophers? Make sure you answer the question you didn’t answer in the Week 7 reflection paper.
How does the question of evil impact the question of God’s existence? What is the best explanation a believer might be able to provide for the presence of evil.
Section C: Entire Course
What are the similarities between Kant’s epistemology and his ethical theory?
Compare Hume and Aristotle on the function of habit in developing human nature. Note similarities and differences.
What is the relationship between Epicurus and Mill? How does Mill “save” Epicureanism?
How does the question of God impact questions of epistemology OR of metaphysics?
Terms After Midterm (8):
Teleological Ethics Deontological Ethics Highest End
Happiness Virtue as a mean Habit
Principle of Utility Quantitative pleasures Qualitative pleasures
Good Will Maxim Hypothetical Imperative
Categorical Imperative Autonomy Care
Justice Relationships Feminism
Deontological Proof Teleological Proof The Question of Evil
Soul Building Modal Modesty
Terms Before Midterm 2:
The Apology Epistemology Empiricism
Rationalism The Wax Example Cogito ergo Sum
Extension Tabula Rasa Impressions
Relations of Ideas Matters of Fact Synthetic Judgments
Analytic Judgments A Priori Knowledge A Posteriori Knowledge
Metaphysics Idealism Materialism
Forms Allegory of the Cave The Divided Line
The Void Atomism Primary/Secondary Qualities Dasein Primal Mood The Nothing
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