Short Answers: 1. What is the difference for Kant between a…

Short Answers: 1. What is the difference for Kant between a…

 

Short Answers:

1. What is the difference for Kant between a categorical imperative vs. a hypothetical imperative? Give a concrete example of each. Why does Kant believe that only a categorical imperative has moral value?

 

3. What is the difference for Aristotle between intellectual virtue vs. moral virtue? Why does Aristotle think that moral virtue is a disposition rather than a feeling or a capacity?

5. Why does Philippa Foot reject Kant’s ethics and what alternative ethics does she propose?

 

6. Outline Hare’s attempt to defend utilitarian ethics from the charge that it would condone slavery in certain restricted cases.

 

7. Considering both utilitarianism and ethical egoism as consequentialist theories, how does utilitarianism differ from ethical egoism? How does ethical egoism differ from psychological egoism?

 

10. Outline Bernard Williams’ account of personal identity. How does it differ from Parfit’s account?

 

12. What are the five definitions of justice considered in Book I of the Republic? Why does Plato reject the first four?