1. Does ethical discourse have ontological commitments?
2. ‘Evolutionary forces have played a large role in shaping the content of
human evaluative attitudes.’ Assuming this is true, how should it change
how we think about ethics?
3. ‘Value is either an attribute or a relation. If it is a relation, then nothing is
intrinsically valuable. Some things are intrinsically valuable. Therefore,
value is an attribute.’ Is this a good argument?
4. ‘Some things are good for people even if they neither want nor enjoy
them.’ Is a good objection to this view that it is paternalistic?
5. Does it matter whether moral understanding is different from moral
knowledge?
6. What reasons do we have to trust?
7. ‘Blame is only appropriate where a relationship has been impaired.’
Discuss.
8. EITHER: (a) ‘You can tell that the Categorical Imperative is false by
looking at the specific moral duties that Kant deduces from it.’ Discuss.
OR: (b) Are Kant’s formulations of the Categorical Imperative equivalent?
9. ‘A free will and a will under moral laws are one and the same’ (KANT).
Discuss.
10. How plausible is Kant’s account of the moral worth of an action?