Extra Credit

Earn 10 points for each excellent answer, up to 100 points. Type and double-space your answers and submit them to me no later than May 26 by 1 p.m.

Plato: Euthyphro

• Socrates claims that he doesn’t know anything. If that’s the case, how does he respond to the definitions his interlocutor puts forward?
• Euthyphro tweaks his definition and comes up with: what is dear to all the gods/God is pious and what is hated by all the gods/God is impious. Socrates doesn’t think that explains anything. Why not?

Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill On Liberty)

• What are the four major problems that arise for act utilitarianism?
• How does Rule Utilitarianism address those four problems?
  
• What is the difference between act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism?

Kantian Ethics

• Why does Kant think you should recognize that you must always treat other rational beings as ends in themselves, and never merely as means?

Virtue Ethics (Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics)

• What are the two parts to developing into a person who can find the Golden Mean, and why are both parts necessary?
• What do virtue ethicists think about ethical principles?

Justice as Fairness (Rawls)

• What are two major worries Rawls has about Utilitarianism?
• Why is the veil of ignorance important to get the Original Position to "work"?