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Mid-term and final exam Prep EthicsQuestions for Review Mid-term Exam Ethics 2007 Winter
The subjects to be covered in the mid-term exam are the following a) What are the factors included in a "realistic ethics today? b) Why is Psychology, especially Developmental Psychology, as outlined in Erikson's stages of moral development important for Ethics c) Why is temperament important in Ethics? d) What does Goleman mean by Emotional IQ? Why is it important? What does he mean by "an emotional hi-jacking"? What is significant about Goleman's "master aptitude",and his recommendations about Kagan's parenting theory? e) How does Aristotle develop a connection between "virtue" and his analysis of enjoyment? e) How do Rawls and Csikszent. interpret Aristotle?
The following are important essay questions you should be prepared to answer. I will list 2 or 3 on the mid-term exam and ask you to pick one to answer.
1.Identify the characteristics of the master aptitude , and why Goleman thinks this aptitude is important for the emotional IQ (working memory) and the virtues of self control and empathy, especially in parenting?
2. How does Aristotle develop the idea of happiness as a good in itself? Why does he connect it with virtue, and how do Rawls and Csikszent. interpret Aristotle as relevant for us today?
3. Why does Goleman think delayed gratification is essential to the virtues associated with emotional IQ?
4. Explain what Erikson means by basic trust. At what stage is it crucial? How is the interaction between parent and infant supposed to develop?
Identifications to remember
a) Keegan=co-natural ethics, b) Flanagan=multidiscipinary and empirical ethics, c) Csikszent.=practical wisdom (active skills) associated with flourishing skills, d) Nussbaum=therapy and capability theories, e) Goleman=self control, emotional IQ, f) Rawls=Aristotelian principle and flourishing (enjoyment), g) Erikson=basic trust, care and generativity, and wisdom (contentment), h) MacIntyre= virtues, friendship, human rights, and narrative. i) Gadamer=wisdom and disappointment. j) Moyers=group therapy and self discovery via narratives, k) Johnson=narrative or story associated with moral identity.
Jeopardy Game Answer who or what is identified by the following.
1. I thought moral wisdom was like the skill of an artist.
2. Basic trust was important to me.
3. I favor an emotional IQ and therapy for todays world.
4. I think we are "in over our heads" today when it comes to ethical confidence.
5. I am the central idea of the good in itself for Aristotle, but I need to be analyzed.
6. I am the central ego strength needed to emerge from infancy?.
7. I am a stage that Erikson's recognizes for young adults.
8. Repeated practice was important for me in the acquisition of virtue.
9. Verbalizing feelings quickly and accurately was an ethical practice for me.
10. I liked Kagan's theory about firm parenting
11. I am a feeling often associated with emotional hi-jacking.
12. I am part of the brain's limbic system associated with a "hi-jacking.".
13. I think ethics today needs cognitive science and psycholoogy.
14. I think emotional incompetence can account for much of our lonely, depressed, violent, and aggressive behavior in U.S.A. today.
15. I hold the Aristotelian principle about virtue and happiness (enjoyment) is an important goal for politics and justice today.
16. I am characteristic of people who are carefree, lively, and sociable.
17. I think left-side of the brain is most active when people are cheeful and happy
18. I am the part of the brain most needed for balanced behavior.
19. I am a virtue associated with acting wisely.
20. I am lonely, fearful, painfully shy, and morose.
21. I want to promote the stable over the unstable temperament.
22. Rapists and child molesters do not seem able to express my characteristics
23. Goleman likes me because I can always motivate people.
24. I am a deficiency in those who refuse to act with ambition.
25. I am a way to handle rage if people can use me quickly.
26. I am a virtue most difficult in a stressful consumer society.
27. I am an intelligence that uses and depends on "working memory."
28. I develop in infancy as abandonment and return form a "worldview."
Questions for the Final Exam Review for Winter and Spring 2006
The final exam: This exam will cover the virtues of courage and her offspring, the virtues of justice (regard and respect), and the practical wisdom needed for virtue. The following questions are guides for knowing that material.
1) Explain Rawls idea of fairminedness and its eight (8) ccharacteristics and why it is important for democracy today
2) What is the meaning of guilt, shame, remorse, and regret?
3) What do the virtues of courage, patience, and perseverance have in common, and why are they called self-efficacy virtues?
4) What qualities and characteristics connect courage, confidence, and anxiety?
5) Why did May think that addicts could be helped therapeutically. Elaborate on what he means by addiction, will, willfullness, willingness, "rock bottom", social, and any other subjects essential to his theory. Illustrate what you mean by using examples if you can.
6) How are patience and delayed gratification connected?
7) Explain Fromm’s theory of respect and self respect
8) What does civility mean?
9) Explain the meaning of social moral relativity.
10) What do humble, unpretentious, and proud mean?
11) Why does Aristotle seem to think critical analysis of good is never-ending?
12) What did Popper contribute to tolerance?
13) Explain how Kohlberg and Gilligan differed and how they agreed with each other.
14) Why did Aristotle think justice so special and how did that compare to Goleman’s position on compassion?
15.) What did Rollo May mean by the "new Puritan"?
16) What does Aristotle mean by analysis of good?
17) Explain why moral vision is part of a “reasonable” practical wisdom in Ethics.
18) Explain how a person with practical wisdom could "feel the good" to do and why this emotional IQ would be expressed by Goleman as emotional literacy. What would she feel and what would she want to do with her feelings?
Jeopardy Game: Answer who or what is identified by the following
1. I am an important characteristic of an outgoing temperament identified by Kagan and very useful for emotional development.
2. I thought "fairness" in a democrattc society today required care and compassion especially in raising children.
3. I developed a therapy for addiction based on an analysis of good in connection with human will.
4. I use the feeling of anger in conjunction with compassion especially for unneccesary suffering of innocent people.
5. I am a major quality in Rawls stage of association.
6. I am a virtue that faces inescapable obstacles over a long time period.
7. I am a virtue that respects others because of their inherent dignity and autonomy.
8. I am a deficiency that results often when a person has too little self-respect.
9. I am a deficiency recognized in people who praise other people inordinately.
10. I am a name for honest self-esteem,
11. I am a virtue that recognizes in games the need for several virtues.
12. I think that a courageous person is confident and quiet before facing danger.
13. I think that facing the wonder of life and the terror of death requires mythic proportions of meaning.
14. In my view, reasonable explanations to children are required if they are to be parented.
15. We think that "seeing the bigger picture" is part of wisdom.
16. Moral vision is a part of wisdom connected to my view of the purpose of life.
17. I think that Kohlberg has missed some major important data in his theory of human moral development.
18. For me, wisdom has to include the solving of problems.
19. I am a virtue that helps people be open to understand more and is part of practical wisdom.
20.I think that details in a bigger picture are needed for the analysis of good.
21. I am a virtue that helps people honestly admit their strengths and weaknesses.
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