Ethics

Revision notes

• Equality and priority
• Consequentialism
• Contractualism
• Virtue ethics
• Egoism and amoralism
• Welfare

Essay plans

• Equality and priority
• Consequentialism and demandingness
• Virtue ethics
• Contractualism
• Egoism and amoralism
• Welfare

Practice essays

• Is virtue a liability in the land of the vicious?
• Should contractualists drop the individualist restriction?
• Is every way of avoiding a demanding morality implausibly undemanding?
• Would it matter if human welfare differed from that of distant aliens?
• Does well-being depending on what we care about favour one theory?
• Is rule consequentialism incoherent?