Answer 3 of the following questions. Your answers should each be about 1/4 – 1/2 a page typed single-space, and should be submitted into the dropbox in .doc file format. Please put all your answers into one file. Let me know if you have any questions or issues submitting into the dropbox.
1. Briefly explain the theory of utilitarianism, along with two of the strongest objections often posed against it.
2. Briefly explain the theory of ethical egoism, along with two of the strongest objections often posed against it.
3. Briefly explain Kant’s ethical theory, including how one uses both version of the Categorical Imperative in order to derive one’s moral duty.
4. Briefly explain Hobbes’s approach to justice, including what a ‘state of nature’ is supposed to be, and what Hobbes thinks will take us out of that state of nature.
5. Briefly explain Aristotle’s virtue ethics, including how “habit” and political discourse are fundamental to the Good Life.
6. What is determinism, and what are a few things about life that seem to indicate that perhaps determinism is true in some regards?
