Spring 2017 Ethics Course Study Questions

Return to Ethics

JAN 18

First Day.

JAN 23

1. What were the main results of Aiely's research on cheating?

2. What, if anything, does it tell us about the nature of ethics?

3. Should a religionist reject Singer's separation of ethics and religion?

4. What is the difference between superficial relativism and real relativism? Why is it hard to be a real relativist?

5. What are some of the essential features of ethical conversations that suggest the kind of objectivity that ethical values have, according to Singer?

JAN 25

1. What difference does it makes whether you think of ethics as finding agreement or managing disagreement?

2. What does the Zimbardo experiment suggest about the nature of ethics?

3. How does thinking about brain structure help us understand aspects of moral life such as moral weakness?

MAR 8

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