PHIL 333 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026 FULL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● Moral Principle. Answer: General states that specify condition under which action is right
or good. Also tells us WHY and guides us towards justified decisions
● Principle of Right Conduct. Answer: Principle that states conditions for actions being right
or wrong
● Principle of Value. Answer: Principle that states conditions for something to have intrinsic
value
● Two Structures of a Moral Theory. Answer: (1) Goodness used to determine rightness (2)
Obligation to certain duties used to determine rightness, independent of goodness
● Examples of Value-Based Moral Theories. Answer: Consequentialism, natural law
theory, virtue ethics
● Examples of Duty-Based Moral Theory. Answer: Deontological, prima facie, Kantian
ethics
● According to Natural Law Theory, what are the FOUR basic intrinsic goods?. Answer:
Human life, procreation, knowledge, and sociability
● What is the Natural Law Theory Principle. Answer: Act is right iff performing it does not
violate any of the basic values
● Kantian Moral Theory. Answer: Moral requirements expressed as commands or
imperatives that bind us to actions, regardless of what we want or how much action bears on
our own happiness
● Golden Rule of Kantian Moral Theory. Answer: Do to others what you would want done
to you
● Categorical Imperative. Answer: Fundamental principle that derives special moral
requirements
● Principle of Right Conduct for Rule Util.. Answer: Action right iff permitted by rule whose
acceptance value is at least as high AV as any other rule
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● Moral Principle. Answer: General states that specify condition under which action is right
or good. Also tells us WHY and guides us towards justified decisions
● Principle of Right Conduct. Answer: Principle that states conditions for actions being right
or wrong
● Principle of Value. Answer: Principle that states conditions for something to have intrinsic
value
● Two Structures of a Moral Theory. Answer: (1) Goodness used to determine rightness (2)
Obligation to certain duties used to determine rightness, independent of goodness
● Examples of Value-Based Moral Theories. Answer: Consequentialism, natural law
theory, virtue ethics
● Examples of Duty-Based Moral Theory. Answer: Deontological, prima facie, Kantian
ethics
● According to Natural Law Theory, what are the FOUR basic intrinsic goods?. Answer:
Human life, procreation, knowledge, and sociability
● What is the Natural Law Theory Principle. Answer: Act is right iff performing it does not
violate any of the basic values
● Kantian Moral Theory. Answer: Moral requirements expressed as commands or
imperatives that bind us to actions, regardless of what we want or how much action bears on
our own happiness
● Golden Rule of Kantian Moral Theory. Answer: Do to others what you would want done
to you
● Categorical Imperative. Answer: Fundamental principle that derives special moral
requirements
● Principle of Right Conduct for Rule Util.. Answer: Action right iff permitted by rule whose
acceptance value is at least as high AV as any other rule
