MIDTERM 2

Question 1

The Aesthetic Validity of Marriage

Answer 1

• Contrasting considerations
• Author A response
• Value of marriage (love) / attack on fake marriage

CAM

Question 2

Equilibrium of Aesthetic and Ethical

Answer 2

1) good/evil are not necessities
2) absolute meaning of either or
3) despair is your salvation

GAD

Question 3

Sermon

Answer 3

1) Siege of Jerusalem / Ethical Despair
3) ‘Wouldn’t it be more edifying…’
4) ‘Against god, we are always in the wrong’
5) Conclusion, ‘only the truth that edifies is truth for you’

Question 4

MacIntyre1

Answer 4

1) if we choose our ethical framework without reason, why are we bound to them? what would prevent someone with a principle in that manner from simply adopting the principles whenever he pleased and changing them whenever he pleased. If that was the case, how is this a moral framework?

How can that which we choose for no reason have any authority over us?

Question 5

The Religious

Answer 5

1) there is no right answer to either or
2) the correct one is the one that grabs you
3) the ethical hinders the religious (Abraham)
4) christianity has become diluted essentially

Question 6

MacIntyre 2

Answer 6

Kierkegaard is mixing two ideologies,

1) the (radical) ideology that people can freely choose their own morals

2) the idea that morals are universal

this is shown with the ethical, as after he has made his decision he follows the laws of a universal morality without a second glance at the aesthetic

basically the ethical version is too similar to Kant’s philosophy suggesting that if the rules of mortality are rational then they must be the same for all rational beings, which does not align with the philosophy used throughout the book suggesting that people can choose their own morality

Question 7

MacIntyre Circulant problem