1. Why should an agent be virtuous?
2. How should we decide between competing ethical theories?
3. EITHER (a): Does moral rationalism rest on intellectualism about human
motivation?
OR (b): What grounds the normative authority of morality? Answer with
reference to early modern voluntarism and rationalism.
4. Does the sentimentalist have a convincing account of how we learn about
morality?
5. ‘You are obligated to φ only if you have reason to φ. You have reason to
φ only if you are motivated to φ. You are not motivated to φ, therefore you
are not obligated to φ.’ Discuss.
6. EITHER (a): How does the fact that two adults both consent to something
change their normative situation?
OR (b): What normative difference does a promise make?
7. Other things being equal, given the choice between saving a smaller or
greater number of people, you should save the greater number. However,
other things being equal, given the choice between saving a life or saving
many people from minor injury, you should save a life. Are these two
commitments consistent?
8. Are rightness and wrongness a matter of the justifiability of the principles
we act on? What would that entail about our obligations to those in need?
9. Even if all virtuous actions are right, are they right because they are
virtuous?
10.Should we aspire to be moral saints?