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

Steinbock argues that severely disabled or mentally retarded human beings have interests that count for less than the interests of other human beings.

Which of the following principles, according to Shue, best explains the wrongness of violence against noncombatants in war?

Which of the following best explains the concept of the "spatial dispersion" of the effects of carbon dioxide emissions?

According to Dershowitz, certainty of a suspect's foreknowledge of a terrorist plot should be an inherent requirement for the use of torture.

Abbate argues that soldiers' role-based obligations prohibit them from assuming extra risks to protect certain kinds of civilians.

Which of the following best captures the basic question Singer is trying to answer in "All Animals Are Equal"?

According to Singer, a speciesist is someone who views other races or sexes as different species.

Which of the following is most plausibly entailed by Strawser's Principle of Unnecessary Risk?

Assume that Thomson is correct that "You ought to do A" does not entail "I have a right to your doing A." Which of the following could you infer from that claim?

Eaton argues that we should understand the causal relation between pornography and harm as deterministic in which exposure to pornography is sufficient to cause harm.

What might an account of sexism that is structurally analogous to Garcia's account of racism look like?

Which of the following best captures Aristotle's argument in X.7 that the life of study is the best life?

Why, according to van den Haag can death not be, in itself, a dehumanizing punishment?

Singer thinks that the strong version of his principle, which requires people to give until they reach the level of marginal utility, is more coherent than the moderate version, which only requires people to give if doing so does not sacrifice something morally significant.

Aristotle argues that moral philosophy should try to produce exact definitions of virtue and vice.

Why, according to Thomas, is the role-model argument unsatisfactory as a defense of affirmative action?

What is the point of Mengzi's claim that a carpenter or wheelwright "cannot make another skillful"?

Which of the following claims does Rachels believe to be illustrated by the cases of doctors who fail to perform simple life-saving operations on infants with Down's syndrome?

Which of the following is a key premise of Gay Williams's "Argument from Nature"?

Dershowitz argues that requiring judicial authorization for torture would result in fewer instances of torture.