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RANK |
TOPIC (dates subject to adjustment) |
SURVEY QUESTION |
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Rebecca Kinney |
Cultural Relativism (4/29) |
Morality differs in every society and morals are just socially approved habits. |
|
Miriam Zinger |
Subjectivism (4/29) |
Morality is doing whatever you yourself believe is right. |
|
Annie Westerman |
Morality & Religion (4/30) |
The Good consists in always doing what God wills at any particular moment. |
|
Jaqueline Marlink |
Psychological Egoism (4/30) |
Each person is so constituted that they will look out only for their own interests. |
|
Mari Stewart |
Ethical Egoism (5/1) |
The achievement of his own happiness is man's highest moral purpose. |
|
Ben Zilz |
Utilitarianism (5/1) |
Whenever we have a choice between alternative actions or social policies, we must choose the one that has the best overall consequences for everyone concerned." |
|
Kristi Trinkle |
Pro & Con Utilitarianism (5/5) |
Many things besides good or bad consequences are morally important. |
|
Christopher Walker |
Kant: Rules & Justice (5/5) |
Morality is a matter of following absolute rules -- rules that admit no exceptions, that must be followed come what may. |
|
Mathew Lambourn |
Kant: Rights & Autonomy (5/6) |
Only the guilty may be punished, and the injury done to the person punished must be comparable to the injury he has inflicted on others. |
|
Gregory Nelson |
Social Contract Theory (5/6) |
Morality consists in the set of rules for how to treat one another, that rational people will agree to accept, on the condition that others follow those rules as well. |
|
Ashley Borcherding |
Feminism & Care Ethics (5/7) |
A more feminine personal-relation-based approach to morality would an improvement over current masculine impartiality-based approaches |
|
Carlton Hill |
Virtue Ethics (5/7) |
We should stop thinking so much in terms of good & bad and right & wrong and think more about virtues (courage, mercy, etc.) and vices (cowardice, cruelty, etc.). |
|
James Hunsanger |
Singer & Ethics (5/8) |
The moral issues raised by driving a car . . . are much more serious than those raised by sex. |
