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Study
Guide for Ethics Quiz # 3…December 11
1.
This quiz is cumulative. Consult
the first two study guides in planning your review. 2.
Be able to explain the general perspectives on war taken by Gandhi and by
just war theorists. Also know the
philosophical guidelines that followers of Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill would
use when evaluating whether a war is just. 3. Review the general background of the current crisis with Iraq. There will be a few questions that are historical rather than philosophical in content. 4. Understand the pro-war arguments and the anti-war answers to these arguments. Also understand the anti-war arguments and the pro-war responses to these arguments. Understand how all pro-war and anti-war arguments must be grounded in ethical theories that make general claims about when wars are just. 5. Be prepared to explain what philosophical perspective is contained within a quotation.
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