Exam 2: Good and Evil

How does Hallie use this story to illustrate the antidote to cruelty? Compare the letter from Massachusetts with the statement of the woman in Minneapolis: "The Holocaust was storm, lightning, thunder, wind, rain, yes. And Le Chambon was the rainbow."

Hallie says that kindness could be the ultimate

The third-century Manicheans and Zoroastrians believed that good and evil were

The third-century Manicheans and Zoroastrians believed that good and evil were always in conflict.

What, according to Taylor, is the purpose of rules? Give an example of a rule to illustrate his point. Do you find his analysis convincing? Explain your answer.

Richard Taylor believes that humans are basically conative beings.

The hedonist tradition identifies the good with pleasure and evil with

What is Foot's central point about the source of morality?

Are some rules better than others?

Ivan Karamazov is almost as religious as his brother.

The three premises in the argument regarding the problem of evil are mutually incompatible.

To say that good is transcendent is to say that it has a source beyond the

Hallie states that one of the reasons institutional cruelty exists and persists is because people believe that

Sophie's Choice presents a classic moral dilemma in which both options are bad: either actively condemn one of your children to death, or, by refusing to choose, have both killed. What should Sophie have done? What would you do? Why?

Sophie's predicament in which she must choose among evils is an example of

Richard Taylor argues that good and evil are transcendental realities.

In Sophie's Choice, Sophie is a symbol of evil.

Billy Budd intended to kill Claggart