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LBST 2211 Final Exam Study Guide Exam Material-

1) Anything discussed, read, or written for class since the midterm is fair game. 2) Content dealing Virtue Theory, Utilitarianism, and Logic will be included in the cumulative final. 3) Presentations, handouts, and extra notes can be found on Moodle under the course resources block. 4) Questions are heavily from past quizzes and presentations. 5) You may use on 3 x 5 notecard as a cheat sheet during the exam. (Anything bigger will be cut in half before the

exam). You may write on both sides and as small as you choose without needing a magnifying glass. 6) Questions will be predominantly multiple choice, true or false, and matching. 7) The final exam will consist of short answer/essay and application/scenario questions. The focus will be on your

understanding of the each theory, the theorists and individual principles of each, and how to apply it. What you need to know-

- Logical Fallacies (Go over fallacies on quiz and on presentation) - Virtue Theory- pay attention to background info, concepts, names and terms - Utilitarianism - pay attention to background info, concepts, names and terms - Deontology—Overview & Kantianism specifically-- pay attention to background info, concepts, names and terms - Cultural Relativism—pay attention to names, terms, and conflicting theories - Review articles—Cultural Relativism, Ethical Hacking, Violent Video Games - For all theories—pay attention to the praises and criticisms (What is good about them? Why do some people

criticize them? How are they problematic?) 40 Specific Names and Terms that will DEFINITELY be on the exam (space is provided for notes): 1) Aristotle 2) John Stuart Mill 3) Jeremy Bentham 4) Eudaimonia 5) Golden Mean 6) Teleology 7) Deontology 8) Normative Ethics 9) Act Utilitarianism vs. Rule Utilitarianism 10) Higher Pleasures vs. Lower Pleasures

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11) Summum Bonum 12) GHP 13) “Doctrine of Swine” 14) Preference Utilitarianism 15) Ideal Values (in utilitarianism) 16) Intrinsic Value vs. Instrumental Value 17) Moral Faculty 18) Disposition 19) Act Utilitarianism vs. Rule Utilitarianism 20) Moral Judgment

21) Utilitarian Calculus

22) Principle of Utility

23) Immanuel Kant

24) Agent-Centered vs. Patient-Centered Deontology

25) Agent-Relative vs. Agent-Neutral Duties

26) Hypothetical Imperatives vs. Categorical Imperatives

27) Kant’s Categorical Imperative

28) Maxim

29) Act-Guidance vs. Character Guidance

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30) Divine Command Theory & Moral Prescriptivism

31) Doctrine of Double Effect

32) Perfect vs. Imperfect Duties

33) Cultural Relativism

34) Moral Realism

35) Ethical Absolutists

36) Ethical Relativism

37) Ethical Pluralists

38) William Graham Sumner

39) Ethnocentrism

40) Cultural Differences Argument