1. EITHER (a) What role does the social utility of the practice of promising
play in explaining promissory obligation?
OR (b) ‘Only contractualists can adequately explain the nature of
promissory obligation.’ Discuss.
2. What are the limits of beneficence?
3. Is the risk of human extinction the worst thing about climate change?
4. ‘If I’m not certain whether or not abortion is permissible, it would be
morally reckless to have one.’ Discuss.
5. Is practical reason merely the part of theoretical reason that is
concerned with ethics?
6. Are any non-instrumental desires irrational?
7. EITHER (a) ‘One of contractualism’s principal attractions is that it
allows us to avoid utilitarianism’s problems with aggregating benefits.’
Discuss.
OR (b) How should morality weigh one person against many?
8. ‘We ought to follow those moral principles we would agree to endorse.’
Discuss.
9. ‘Virtues are irrelevant to moral behaviour. Morality should focus on
situations, not on character.’ Discuss.
10. Does consent make harm all right?