1) (i) Outline the themes/arguments of the Stone and Leopold pieces (i.e. provide a logical analysis – an account of the premises and the conclusion); (ii) connect the themes and arguments of each author’s work to the movie we watched in class on June 30th, 2022, by first, outlining the logical outline of the movie’s message (not the chronological ordering) and by referencing specific scenes and connecting them to particular parts (quote them) of each author’s piece.
2) The story of the trip to Hilo and the time spent both on the mainland and on the volcano, as well as the tensions between what defenders of indigenous lands were sent to do and what was felt by many of those same defenders, illustrate which philosophical problem? (i) explain the nature of the philosophical problem that the trip, I suggests, highlights, by first, outlining the account of how the trip proceeded and the who/what/why/where and what of the trip; (ii) explain how akrasia played a role; (iii) explain how akrasia, in the context of this trip, is connected to Stone’s and Leopold’s pieces in particular, but (iv) present three arguments for why akrasia DOES NOT provide a difficulty for applied or even normative ethics.
3) (i) Present three arguments not found in the textbook for why plants have intrinsic (i.e. non-instrumental value); (ii) illustrate by means of the analogies presented between one’s plants and one’s mother, what most people’s intuitions seem to be regarding who or what has intrinsic value; (iii) if the value of a thing can be intrinsic, can there be levels of non-intrinsic value? Provide three arguments suggesting that there can be such a thing as levels of intrinsic value and why and and provide two arguments for why such an idea might be a contradiction in terms.
4) Many of the videos and readings covered since the last test suggest that identities and the worth of things are relational. (i) provide three arguments for why the identities and values of things are relational, making explicit reference and quoting from the texts/videos/my lectures; and ii) provide three arguments for why the identities and values of things are non-relational, making explicit reference and quoting from the texts/videos/my lectures.
