- According to Socrates, an unexamined life is not worth living. With this idea in mind, what does it mean to live an ethically good life in your own understanding of life and reality?
- Canacleardistinctionbemadebetweenmoralsandethics?Isthephilosophical delineation of ethics as a principled form of moral inquiry and self-reflection really different from the practice of sharing moral ideals?
- Are there universal moral principles that are right for all persons at all times?
- Dopeople,attheendoftheday,alwaysdowhattheydesiremost?Ordopeople sometimes act strictly for the good of "the Other," without even a trace of self- interest?
- Isthereareliablewayforapersontorationallydeterminetheethicallyrightthingto do in most cases of human behavior and decision making?
- Arereligiousethicsinterchangeablewithphilosophicalethics?Canonetaketheplace of the other in living a morally good and Socratically examined life?
- Arevirtueethics,orethicsofcharacter,superiortoanethicsofconduct?
- Canatheoryofjustice,suchasthatofJohnRawls,thatisgroundedinanabstract conception of the social contract, ever provide a satisfactory practical framework for a totally egalitarian and completely just society?
- Areexistentialistthinkerswhoclaimthatthereisnopre-existingmoralrealityorpre- determined purpose in human life right?
- Are feminist ethics necessarily a version of the ethics of care? Is it possible for a version of feminist ethics to be based solely on the exercise of abstract, logical reason?
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