Study Guide for final

Understand Kant's Categorical Imperative--both versions--as welkl as good will and reason.

Understand Mill's Utilitarianism--thre greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people.  Your happiness counts no more, and no less, than everyone else's.

What is another word for "maxim"?

Understand which predominates in a moral argument.

Know the difference between a hypothetical imperative and a categorical imperative.

Know what an ethical egoistf believes.

Understand consequential (teleological) ethics (Mill) as opposed to nonconsequentialist ethics (Kant).

Telos (goal)

Arete (air-et-tay) (excellence)

Deion (Where deontology comes from)

Have read Letter from a Birminghal Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.  Understand what he told the clergy about the "stained glass window" and injustice anywhere.  We are to be extremists in what?

Understand the differences between religious, legal, and social issues and ethical issues.  Which are convergent and which are divergent?

What did Mill say about Socrates being dissatisfied?

Understand virtue ethics and the habituation of virtue.

Be able to name Confucius's "Five Relations," li, and jen.  i hope you took good notes!

What, according to Confucius, is a Chun Tzu?

When is the Chun Tzu watchful over himself?

What word, for Dr. King, has always meant "never"?

Be able to tell the differences between Dr. King and Socrates and their idea of civil disobedience.

There is an extra-credit option at the end of your exam.  i highly recommend you write on it if you think your grade might be sucking!  It can't hurt!

HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY AND A GOOD BREAK!