Instruction
Describe clearly and in detail each of the following: (NOTE: CHOOSE ANY 5
LETTERS FROM THE FOLLOWING – each letter is worth 10 points):
a. the Form of the Good of Plato
b. the nature of human wisdom according to Socrates
c. the Good Will of Kant
d. the Eudaimonia of Aristotle
e. the Categorical Imperative of Kant
f. the State of Nature of Hobbes
g. the Metaphor of the Cave of Plato
h. the re-stated version of the Greatest Happiness Principle of Mill
i. the Pour-soi of Sartre
j. the hedonic calculus of Bentham
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2. Reason out as thoroughly as you can each of the following: (NOTE: CHOOSE
ANY 10 LETTERS FROM THE FOLLOWING – each letter is worth 10
points):
a. Why is it that for Sartre the statement “Existence precedes essence” applies
only to the por-soi and not to the en-soi?
b. Why is it that for Plato this world is not the real world?
c. Why is it that for Aristotle happiness cannot consist in pleasure?
d. Why is it that for Socrates the unexamined life is not worth living?
e. Why is it that for Hobbes the state of nature is a condition in which every
human being is at war with everyone else?
f. Why is it that for Plato to know is merely to remember?
g. What is it that for Aristotle knowledge begins in the senses but ends in the
mind?
h. Why is it that for Hobbes we are not sociable by nature?
i. Why is it that for Kant, if one is only acting according to duty and not acting
from duty, such an act has no moral worth?
j. Why is it that for Mill the Greatest Happiness Principle is not a swinish
doctrine?
k. Why is it that for Aristotle the proper function of human life cannot simply be
to live (i.e., do nutrition, growth and reproduction) or cannot simply be to
sense?
l. Why is it that for Plato we have innate ideas?
m. Why is it that for Kant humans ought to be treated always as an end and never
as means only?
n. Why is it that for Aristotle money cannot be the chief good?
o. Why is it that for Kant the maxim of making a false promised cannot be
universalized?
p. Why is it that for Kant the only thing that is good without any qualification is
the good will?
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q. Why is it that for Kant the hypothetical imperative cannot be the imperative of
morality?
r. Why is it that for Sartre existence precedes essence?
s. Why is it that for Sartre human beings are in anguish?
3. Differentiate as clearly as you can between: (NOTE: CHOOSE ANY 5
LETTERS FROM THE FOLLOWING – each letter is worth 10 points)
a. categorical imperative and hypothetical imperative (Kant)
b. pour- soi and en-soi (Sartre)
c. acting from duty and acting according to duty (Kant)
d. Hobbes’ concept of happiness and the Aristotelian concept of happiness
e. The moral world of Mill/Bentham and the moral world of Kant
f. Bentham’s hedonic calculus and Mill’s competent judge
g. Jus naturale and lex naturales (Hobbes)
h. Universality Principle and Humanity Principle (Kant)
i. The ‘this’ world and the ‘other’ world of Plato
j. intellectual virtue and moral virtue (Aristotle)
k. Bentham’s pleasure and Mill’s pleasure