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Date: Wed 9th January 2008
Time: 13:50 – 16:00
Venue: Greenbank, 202
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. "What he [Aristotle] has to say is what will be useful to comfortable men of weak passions; but he has nothing to say to those who are possessed by a god or a devil, or whom outward misfortune drives to despair." Bertrand Russell. Fair comment?
2. Is biology relevant to morality? If not, why not? If so, how?
3. 'The rules of morality ... are not conclusions of our reason' - David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature, Book III Part I Section I. What are Hume's arguments for this thesis? Are they sound?
4. Do you agree with J.S.Mill that “pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends” (Mill, Utilitarianism, Ch 2)?
5. "Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others." Rawls, A Theory of Justice, excerpt in Sterba, p. 228. Critically evaluate this thesis.
6. Is it defensible to think that showing respect is
the most important moral virtue?
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