Exam 13: Aristotle's Ethics: Exploring Virtue and Justice

According to van den Haag, the main reason that the death penalty is justified is that the severity and finality of the death penalty are appropriately proportionate to the severity and finality of murder.

Which of the following is NOT an example of depriving a being of a future like ours?

Mill says that someone has a right to something when it is especially important, in terms of the general happiness, for society to defend that person's ability to have or do that thing.

Which of the following, according to Metz, best captures a traditional African consequentialist argument against the death penalty?

Steinbock argues that humans are unique in their capacity for suffering and that cruel treatment of animals is morally permissible.

In your own words, state Warren's main conclusion in "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" and summarize her main argument for that conclusion.

What role does the claim that agribusiness is too large to respond to the behavior of one consumer play in Norcross's paper?

Abbate argues that the virtue of loyalty does not require soldiers to be loyal to fellow soldiers who violate the laws of war.

Which of the following would count as an objection to Eaton's argument that antiporn feminism is sensible if it employs a scientifically plausible conception of causation and analyzes the variety of harms that pornography potentially causes?

Which of the following best captures Dershowitz's conclusion in "Should the Ticking Bomb Terrorist Be Tortured?"

According to Steinbock, we should reject Singer's definition of the principle of equality.

What is the Akan conception of a person? How does that conception influence their view of ethics?

Estes claims that coercing another person into sex, having sex with someone who is too mentally or physically incapacitated to offer sexual favors, and engaging in sexual activities that might lead to pregnancy when one is unable or unwilling to take responsibility for the result all undermine mutual respect.

Nathanson argues that neither equality retributivism nor proportional retributivism provides adequate support for the death penalty.

Singer argues that racism, sexism, and speciesism violate the principle of equality; in other words, they are all wrong for the same reason.

Thomson thinks that the law should compel us to be Good Samaritans.

Gay-Williams argues that euthanasia can never be in a patient's self-interest. How might one object to this argument? Be sure to state your objection as a complete argument.

According to Wolf, opponents of physician-assisted suicide argue that the practice is not necessary to provide humane care at the end of life because:

According to Thomas, an important part of teaching is intellectual affirmation, which requires a deep trust between student and teacher.

According to Dougherty, deceiving another person into sex is seriously wrong if the deception is about a feature that is a deal breaker to which the other person's will is opposed and not just an undesirable feature.