Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Some sample exam questions

1. What are the basics of utilitarian ethics and Kantian ethics? How do utilitarians make moral decisions? How do Kantians make moral decisions?

2. What arguments are given against certain kinds of experiments on humans? What arguments are given against certain kinds of experiments on animals? How are these arguments similar and different?

3. What is the argument that Peter Singer presents in his “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”? What are some of Gregory Pence's criticisms of that argument?

4. What are some of the health disparities between the races that Annette Dula summarizes? What does she argue ought to be the response to these disparities?

5. In general, how should one address moral issues? What methods of thinking are useful?

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