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Answer two (2) of the following with an essay:
1. "Moral views cannot be proven true or false, therefore whatever you think is right is right for you." Describe carefully what someone might mean by each part of this statement. In what sense, if any, do you agree with it? In what sense(s) do you disagree? How would you express a statement on "moral views"? Explain your answer.
2. Explain the importance of friendship in the moral life. What other types of relationships appropriately use the term "love" to describe themselves? How do they differ? How are they the same? What is "love"? What are some of the requirements for genuine friendship? Can children be friends with their parents or men with women according to Aristotle? Why or why not? Is Aristotle right?
3. Explain Kant's approach to the moral law. Demonstrate how Kantian ethics works by examining the question of suicide, the question of borrowing money in great need without intending to repay, the question of using one's abilities and the question of giving alms to the poor. Critique Kant's approach.
4. What are the different kinds of communities to which we belong? What are our responsibilities in these communities? What is the "common good"? What are our responsibilities if the community we belong to is involved in immoral activity? What does it mean to actively participate in communal life? Are communities necessary for human flourishing? Can we "opt out" of all communities? To what communities should we belong?
5. What is the role of law in a just society? What are "rights"? Where do they come from? How ought we to view them? What is the relationship between rights and duties? Do we have a moral duty to follow the positive law? Is there ever a case when one can legitimately ignore the law? Does an unjust law bind one in conscience? What are our moral responsibilities if a law or laws in our society are unjust? Can we ever legitimately follow an order that we know to be immoral?
6. What is conscience? How is conscience formed? How does one inform one's conscience? How does one make progress in the moral life? What is the meaning of the quotation: "life is about being and being more not having and having more"? What role does vocation play in the moral life? How do we order the various demands placed on our abilities, resources and time if we are to live fulfilling lives? How does one form "moral character"?
7. Discuss the virtues associated with the proper understanding and use of wealth and honor. What are some of the natural virtue necessary for a person to be truly "great"? How are these virtues acquired? What is guilt? Is guilt good? What makes an act meritorious? What is humility? How does humility relate to the other virtues?
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