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Date: Friday, 20th January 2006 Time: 13.50 – 16.00
Venue: Brook, 213
1. Answer TWO questions. Each question carries equal marks.
2. You may not answer a question previously chosen as an essay.
3. You may take NO MORE THAN 200 words of notes into the examination,
which must be handed in with the script at the end.
1. The human conscience has been likened to a magnetic compass. Is this a helpful analogy?
2. Does morality have a ‘function’?
3. Give one line of argument that has been offered in defence of the claim that each one of us is morally obliged to pursue ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’. Evaluate it.
4. When, in a difficult situation, you are thinking out what is the ethical thing to do, should you try and be as ‘unemotional’ as possible?
5. What does a feminist perspective bring to our understanding of the fundamental nature of morality?
6. Do non-human animals have any moral claims on us?
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