HRE 4M1 REVIEW:
Exam Structure:
60 Questions for 35 Marks: MULTIPLE CHOICE/TRUE OR FALSE/ MATCHING
10 Marks: Sight Passage
40 Marks: Short/Long Answer Questions (Choice)
30 Marks: Essay
Material:
Different forms of Ethics:
(Non)Consequentialist vs Consequentialist Ethics
Egoism hedonism
utilitarianism
Ethical Absolutism
Ethical Relativism
Cultural Relativism
mean virtues/sins
happiness
Philosophers:
Aristotle:
Teleological ethics:
Kant
Deontological ethics
Good will
goods
2 maxims
Levinas:
Good
the Other
sensibility
totalization
St. Thomas Aquinas
Principle of Double Effect natural law intrinsically evil
Free Will:
Forms of free will: Libertarianism/
Religious / Natural / Social Determinisms:
objectively disordered
Freud: Ego Superego Id
Consumerism and Free Will Aticles
Fiji TV and Obesity
Teenage Brain
How to go Broke on 300K a year
Article: I Hate Myself and I Want to Buy
Conscience:
Erikson
Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral development - know and be able to apply
Symptoms of a misinformed conscience – know and be able to apply
Excusability – know and be able to apply
Peter Singer on Conscience - explain
Church and Conscience - explain
Old/New Testament Ethics
Covenants – how are these covenants linked in a symbolic manner?
Prophets
Ethics of Jesus Christ
Sermon on the Mount
Presentations:
Catholic views on the issues (3 x 3 Marks)
Cannot use the same presentation twice
Be able to analyze the presentations in an in-depth manner using
the philosophers or ethical theories (4 presentations x 3 philosophers)
(Kant, Aristotle, Levinas, Egoism, utilitarianism, Aquinas)
Essay:
The philosopher Aristotle stated that the purpose of all human action is to achieve
happiness. He also stated that all lesser goods are achieved for the purpose of
happiness.
One of these lesser goods is money.
Compose an essay which explains how the use of money can lead to or lead away
from the good life (ie. happiness).
The essay must focus on the ideas of un/ethical ways of earning money and
un/ethical ways of spending money and how these actions can lead to happiness.
How does money affect moral decision making?
Presentations:
Catholic views on the issues (3 x 3 Marks)
Cannot use the same presentation twice
Be able to analyze the presentations in an in-depth manner using
the philosophers or ethical theories (4 presentations x 3 philosophers)
(Kant, Aristotle, Levinas, Egoism, utilitarianism, Aquinas)
Essay:
The philosopher Aristotle stated that the purpose of all human action is to achieve
happiness. He also stated that all lesser goods are achieved for the purpose of
happiness.
One of these lesser goods is money.
Compose an essay which explains how the use of money can lead to or lead away
from the good life (ie. happiness).
The essay must focus on the ideas of un/ethical ways of earning money and
un/ethical ways of spending money and how these actions