Answer five of the following short answer questions. Each q…
Answer five of the following short answer questions. Each question is worth 10 points. Please number each answer to indicate to which question it is a response. What are the two methods for raising an objection against an argument? How are they different from each other? What, according to Socrates, is the difference between human wisdom and the wisdom more than human? What is the nature of Socrates’ wisdom? Aristotle says that virtue aims at the intermediate, not the intermediate in the object, but rather the intermediate relative to the individual. Explain this distinction. Why does Kant think that nothing is good without qualification except the good will? What does he mean by the good will? How does he rule out other possibilities? According to Kant, an action must be done from duty (case 4) in order to have moral worth. Even when an action accords with duty, it does not have moral worth when it’s done from inclination (cases 2 and 3). Explain what moral worth means, for Kant, and why thinks this. What is Utilitarianism’s “greatest happiness principle”? What does it take happiness to mean, and whose happiness must we promote according to this principle? By what means does Mill believe we can remove or greatly reduce the world’s evils? How do the different parts of the solution reinforce each other?
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