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Ethics Exam PrepAccording to Aquinas, is rectitude of the will required for (perfect) happiness? Why or why not - ✔✔Yes is it
required for perfect happiness before and after the fact. Until one's will has been made perfect one will never
be able to achieve union with God in the afterlife.
According to Aristotle, is it important how well one is raised when young? Why or why not? - ✔✔Yes because
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being virtuous is quite complicated, and it requires the intricate training of your desires, intuitions, and
emotions.
According to Kant is the imperative, "Do not lie!" hypothetical or categorical? Why? - ✔✔Categorical because
there are no expectations. (Not hypothetical because it is optional for us).;
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Describe eudaimonia according to Aristotle in as much detail as you can. - ✔✔Eudaimonia is Flourishing. The
True end of all Human action and Fulfilment of our nature as Human Beings
Describe the similarities and differences between the ethical views of Aristotle and Aquinas. - ✔✔Aquinas
agrees with just about everything Aristotle taught us about eudaimonia in this life time. He just believes that the
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flourishing we experience in this life is incomplete; it is not ultimate. The ultimate fulfillment of our nature comes
in the afterlife when we are united with Goodness Itself and Truth Itself. This is God, and Aquinas calls are
union with God the Vision of the Divine Essence.
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Do a utilitarian calculation to determine the right course of action in the scenario in from the radio show where
the man is trying to decide whether to lie to his father-in-law who has dementia. - ✔✔
Explain Kant's three tests of ethical actions and use them to provide an answer to this dilemma: You learn that
your father is cheating on your mother. (They are still married.) She is suspicious and asks you whether he is
cheating on her. How should you respond? - ✔✔1. Does my action treat the others involved as an end, and
not merely as a means?
2. Is my action "universalizable"?
3. Is my action "reversible"?
According to Kant's tests you should tell you mother because you action would then be reversible. You would
want your mother to tell you if you were in her shoes.
Explain what it means that according to Aristotle, virtue "aims at the intermediate (taken relative to us.)" -
✔✔This means that in any given situation it aims at the intermediate relative to your circumstances
Explain what it means that Aristotle's is a wisdom-based ethics, Kant's is a rule-based ethics, and Mill's is a
calculation-based ethics - ✔✔Wisdom bases ethics is ethics based on human nature and the ultimate goal or
purpose
Rule based ethics is ethics based on a set of rules that fit any circumstance
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