Spring 2013 Ethics Course Study Questions
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All exams are based on these study questions. You are strongly encouraged to keep notes on these study questions as the semester proceeds. This will make you preparation for the mid-term and final much more efficient and productive.
Contents
- 1 January 07
- 2 January 08
- 3 January 10
- 4 January 14
- 5 January 15
- 6 January 17
- 7 January 21
- 8 January 22
- 9 January 24
- 10 January 28
- 11 January 29
- 12 January 31
- 13 February 04
- 14 February 05
- 15 February 07
- 16 February 11
- 17 February 12
- 18 February 14
- 19 February 18
- 20 February 19
- 21 February 21
- 22 February 25
- 23 February 26
- 24 February 27
- 25 March 04
- 26 March 05
- 27 March 07
- 28 March 18
- 29 March 19
- 30 March 21
- 31 March 25
- 32 March 26
- 33 March 28
- 34 April 01
- 35 April 02
- 36 April 04
- 37 April 08
- 38 April 09
- 39 April 11
January 07
1st class meeting. No study questions.
January 08
1. How does Cooper define ethics? What are some other approaches?
2. What was the Zimbardo prison experiment and what lessons can be drawn from it?
3. Identify six core ethical principles or intuitions that moral theories typically reference.
January 10
1. Describe Ariely's "matrix test" on cheating and discuss it's implications, in your view.
2. How did Jonathan Haidt challenge the consensus in moral psychology established by Piaget and Kohlberg?
3. What is the point of Haidt's "harmless taboo violations" research?
4. What is ethics for, according to Haidt? Why does he think this (bring later content to bear on this question as well)?
January 14
1. What factors affect one's decision to break with situational control?
2. What Piaget's and Kohlberg's stages of cognitive and moral development? Identify some criticisms of each.
3. How can Kohlberg's stages of moral development help us understand cases like the My Lai massacre?
