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According to contractarians, the ultimate point of morality is to

What view do absolutists commonly hold about the moral significance of the distinction between doing and allowing? Describe a case in which their view seems to give the right ethical verdict and another case in which it seems to get things wrong. Do you think the absolutist view of this distinction can be supported? Defend your answer.

According to the text, which of the following is a problem for the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing?

Ethical monism is the theory that

The Amoralist’s Challenge is a direct challenge to what?

Exemplary punishment is punishment that

According to utilitarianism, there is no essential connection between the morality of an action and the morality of the intentions behind it. Describe the utilitarian approach to evaluating actions and intentions, and explain why utilitarians are committed to seeing the two as disconnected. Do you find this feature of utilitarianism to be plausible? Why or why not?

Being a member of the moral community means that you are

In what ways does ethical egoism require actions that seem to be paradigmatic cases of immorality? How serious of a problem is this for the theory? What should the egoist say in response?

If ethical egoism is true, then I should regard the interests of others as having