Topic 1: Epistemology

Choose ONE question to answer in 700-1000 words.

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Questions: 

1. Is there a moral or ethical responsibility to study ethics? Put another way, what is important about moral reasoning, and why is it practiced? To control results, to negotiate fear, a drive to be better at being a person? Explain not only the particular reasons, but why they are important and how they connect. 

2. Is there any relationship between the decisions we make about hypothetical scenarios (such as the Trolley Problem, or other judgments about fictional dilemmas) and ethical reasoning which occurs in response to events in our lives? Are they equally ethically relevant?

3. What is the relationship between forming a normative claim and evaluating a result using ethics?

4. Why do we form ethical claims and/or experience ethical intuitions?