Dowling
College PHL 042A Ethics
Midterm. Open book.
80 minutes.
I
will ask you to answer 3 questions from 5 of the following.
1. Set out the main arguments of John Noonan in
“An Almost Absolute Value in History.”
2. Set out the main arguments of Mary Anne
Warren in “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion.”
3. Set out the main arguments of Peter Singer
in “Famine, Affluence, and Morality.”
4. Set out the main arguments of Bernard
Boxhill, “The Color-Blind Principle.”
5. Explain clearly the meta-ethical positions
of absolutism, skepticism, and relativism.
Why do skepticism and relativism make rational moral argument about
particular issues difficult?
6. Explain the main ideas of Kantian ethics and
Utilitarian ethics, and give 2 main ways in which they differ from each other.