1. EITHER: a) ‘There is no interesting link between freedom and
blameworthiness.’ Discuss.
OR: b) In what sense, if any, does voluntariness depend on the
existence of acceptable alternatives?
2. Does moral responsibility presuppose the ability to have done
otherwise?
3. EITHER: a) Is there a morally significant distinction between killing and
letting die?
OR: b) Can the intention behind an action make an otherwise
permissible action impermissible? If so, how? If not, why not?
4. EITHER: a) Does the existence of moral conflict between cultures
support the claim that the truth of moral claims is culturally relative?
OR: b) ‘Liberalism for the liberals. Cannibalism for the cannibals.’
Discuss.
5. ‘An agent has a reason to F just in case she would desire herself to F if
she were fully rational.’ Discuss.
6. In what sense did Hume think that reason was a slave of the passions?
Was he right?
7. ‘Partiality towards one’s friends is permissible just in case it is
justifiable on impartial grounds.’ Discuss.
8. ‘If it is permissible to F, then F-ing is universalizable.’ Discuss.
9. Is suicide always morally permissible?
10.‘Death is the end of all experience. So it cannot be bad.’ Discuss.