Use the lecture objectives and paper prompts as your study guide.  So long as you have a solid understanding of that material, then you will be prepared for the exam.  The exam is comprehensive, meaning it will cover material from the entire semester, including Brave New World.

You may find any of the following types of questions on the exam:

Short Answer (1-2 sentences):
1.  Explain the concept “the priority of the good over the right.”

Short Essay (roughly 1 exam booklet page, double-spaced)
1. What does it mean to say that the moral agent "sees and judges with the eyes of experience"?  Why is this important for the virtue ethicist?

Long Essay (roughly 2-3 exam booklet pages)
1.  Often the notion of a ‘right’ is thought to be antithetical to utilitarian morality.  Explain how one might offer a utilitarian ground of morality (your discussion should also mention the limitations of such a ground).  Provide an example of a putative right that you think is best understood as having a utilitarian ground (and say why you think so).  [Note: this would not be appropriate for this class, since we didn’t do a unit on rights]

2.  Focusing on utilitarianism, Kantianism, and Aristotelian virtue-ethics, compose a comparative essay that highlights the advantages and limitations of each moral framework.  Your essay should be organized around a central thesis, which is clearly stated.

Skills Question
You may be presented with a passage and asked to break it down into syllogistic form.

1.  [Imagine you were given the passage from the Pojman chapter on Utilitarianism labeled “Problem 3: The Integrity Objection”]
 

The answer we are looking for would be along the following lines:

P1.  Utilitarianism sometimes requires that a person alienate himself from a “project or attitude round which he has built his life, just because someone else’s projects have so structure the causal scene that that is how the utilitarian sum comes out.”

P2.  It cannot be morally required of persons that they alienate themselves in this way simply because doing so would maximize some impersonal utility calculation.

C.  Utilitarianism is a flawed moral theory.