Normative ethics review:
1. State and explain the main ethical frameworks.
2. Compare Rousseau’s state of Nature from Hobbes’ view.
3. Compare Hobbes from the Sophist’s view of justice.
4. Compare Augustine’s Divine Command Theory with Thomas Aquinas views.
5. Describe Rousseau’s Social Contract Theory as viewed in his description of human nature.
6. Describe Hobbes’ Social Contract Theory as viewed in his description of human nature.
7. Compare Kant’s general philosophy of ethics with Hume’s ethical view.
8. How did Hume relate the passional and rational nature of human beings.
9. How did Hume compare “relation of ideas” from “matters of fact”?
10. Explain Kant’s view of Categorical Imperative as viewed against hypothetical imperative.
11. What is John Locke’s main philosophical view?
12. Explain Bentham’s classical Utilitarianism.
13. What was Mill’s view in reforming Bentham’s utilitarianism.
14. What is Aristotle’s Virtue Theory?
15. Compare the following views of happiness by hedonism, Epicurus and Aristotle.
16. What is Kant’s meaning of the “Good Will”?
17. Describe the epistemological views of Kant.
18. How was utilitarianism developed as a theory during the 19th century?
19. What is the difference between act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism?
20. Why does deontological theory conflict with the theory of utilitarianism?
21. What are the difficulties or problems that can be encountered regarding the application of the theory of utilitarianism?
22. Explain J.L. Mackie’s basic ethical Views.
23. Compare the Aristotelian concept of Virtues with Macintyre’s doctrine of Virtues.
24. Explain N. Noddings “Ethics of Care”.
25. Discuss briefly the Four feminists fears in Ethics by N. Noddings.
26. Compare the following contemporary ethical views: liberalism, communitarianism and feminism.
27. Compare the moral teachings of the Judaic View (Old Testament) with the Christian view (New Testament).
28. Formulate your own definition of evil by comparing it with Augustine’s view on evil.
29. How is freewill related to the Augustine’s concept of evil and predestination?
30. What are the two basic sources of Augustine’s philosophy?
31. How does Thomas Aquinas treat the relationship between the Eternal Law and the Natural Law?
32. Explain briefly the moral view based on the principle of “Double Effect”.
33. Explain briefly the moral view of Aquinas.