What makes for a good role model? Who do you admire as a role model and why? What about their character do you admire?
•Kant thinks an action that leads to bad consequences might be morally good.
•Can you think of examples What are the merits of utilitarianism? What is an objection? Do you use utilitarian thinking in your moral decision making? If yes, how so? If no, why not?
Can you think of other situations in which maximizing general welfare requires us to perform actions that according to common sense morality are immoral?
Do you agree with John Stuart Mill that some activities are of such high qualitative character that they are essential to a happy human life? If so, what determines the qualitative character? examples. If no why?
•A person who believes that happiness is a result of how much pleasure and pain we experience in our lives is called a hedonist. Are you a Hedonist, or do you believe there is more to happiness than maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain? If yes, what is the hedonist missing? Can you give a description of a happy life that is not also a pleasant one?
Imagine for a moment that you were in possession of ring such as the one Gyges found. How would you use it? If you had a perfect guarantee that you would never be caught or punished, what you do? Are there things you wouldn't do, because they are wrong? How do you determine what is right and wrong?
According to the Bible, God commands Abraham to kill his son Isaac. Although God eventually interferes and prevents Abraham from killing his son, the question arise of whether killing a child can become morally right when God commands it to be done.
•What do you think? •How would you have responded if you were in Abraham’s situation? Answer either the first two or last two questions.
•Besides our country’s changing moral on stance on slavery, can you think of other developments in American society that might be considered moral progress? •What are some current cultural practices that future generations might consider barbaric and immoral? -Or- •Can we judge the Vikings as bad? Slave holders as bad people? •At what point can we hold people accountable for their actions we now deem immoral? |
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