1. LBST 2211 Final Exam Study Guide
Exam Material-
1) Anything discussed, read, or written for class since the midterm is fair game.
2) Content dealing Virtue Theory, Utilitarianism, and Logic will be included in the cumulative final.
3) Presentations, handouts, and extra notes can be found on Moodle under the course resources block.
4) Questions are heavily from past quizzes and presentations.
5) You may use on 3 x 5 notecard as a cheat sheet during the exam. (Anything bigger will be cut in half before the
exam). You may write on both sides and as small as you choose without needing a magnifying glass.
6) Questions will be predominantly multiple choice, true or false, and matching.
7) The final exam will consist of short answer/essay and application/scenario questions. The focus will be on your
understanding of the each theory, the theorists and individual principles of each, and how to apply it.
What you need to know-
- Logical Fallacies (Go over fallacies on quiz and on presentation)
- Virtue Theory- pay attention to background info, concepts, names and terms
- Utilitarianism - pay attention to background info, concepts, names and terms
- Deontology—Overview & Kantianism specifically-- pay attention to background info, concepts, names and terms
- Cultural Relativism—pay attention to names, terms, and conflicting theories
- Review articles—Cultural Relativism, Ethical Hacking, Violent Video Games
- For all theories—pay attention to the praises and criticisms (What is good about them? Why do some people
criticize them? How are they problematic?)
40 Specific Names and Terms that will DEFINITELY be on the exam (space is provided for notes):
1) Aristotle
2) John Stuart Mill
3) Jeremy Bentham
4) Eudaimonia
5) Golden Mean
6) Teleology
7) Deontology
8) Normative Ethics
9) Act Utilitarianism vs. Rule Utilitarianism
10) Higher Pleasures vs. Lower Pleasures

2. 11) Summum Bonum
12) GHP
13) “Doctrine of Swine”
14) Preference Utilitarianism
15) Ideal Values (in utilitarianism)
16) Intrinsic Value vs. Instrumental Value
17) Moral Faculty
18) Disposition
19) Act Utilitarianism vs. Rule Utilitarianism
20) Moral Judgment
21) Utilitarian Calculus
22) Principle of Utility
23) Immanuel Kant
24) Agent-Centered vs. Patient-Centered Deontology
25) Agent-Relative vs. Agent-Neutral Duties
26) Hypothetical Imperatives vs. Categorical Imperatives
27) Kant’s Categorical Imperative
28) Maxim
29) Act-Guidance vs. Character Guidance

3. 30) Divine Command Theory & Moral Prescriptivism
31) Doctrine of Double Effect
32) Perfect vs. Imperfect Duties
33) Cultural Relativism
34) Moral Realism
35) Ethical Absolutists
36) Ethical Relativism
37) Ethical Pluralists
38) William Graham Sumner
39) Ethnocentrism
40) Cultural Differences Argument