Final Exam Review Sheet Philosophy
Final Exam Review Sheet Philosophy 110, Fall Term 2006
The final exam will take place Thursday, December 21st, in the usual classroom from 4:30-7pm. It will consist of around 15 true/false or multiple choice questions, and a dozen or so short answer questions. The exam will be comprehensive – that is, it will cover material from the entire semester. The emphasis will be on material we have studied since the last exam—probably one-half to two-thirds of the final exam will cover this new material. But note that that still means one-third to one-half of the exam will cover material from the previous two exams.
The following are important concepts, positions, objections, arguments, etc., that we have covered since the last exam. Review …show more content…
“second generation” rights (social and economic rights); the debate between choice theorists vs benefit theorists; Orend’s unified theory (ultimate principles justifying human rights → first-level specification of human rights objections → second-level specification of human rights objects); Orend’s endorsement of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a good example of a second-level specification of human rights objects, with a few exceptions (e.g. he rejects the right to paid holidays on the grounds that these are not so essential as to qualify as a vital human need, he worries the right to “fair pay” is too vague to be useful, and he is alarmed by Article 29’s claim that human rights can be limited in certain
The final exam will take place Thursday, December 21st, in the usual classroom from 4:30-7pm. It will consist of around 15 true/false or multiple choice questions, and a dozen or so short answer questions. The exam will be comprehensive – that is, it will cover material from the entire semester. The emphasis will be on material we have studied since the last exam—probably one-half to two-thirds of the final exam will cover this new material. But note that that still means one-third to one-half of the exam will cover material from the previous two exams.
The following are important concepts, positions, objections, arguments, etc., that we have covered since the last exam. Review …show more content…
“second generation” rights (social and economic rights); the debate between choice theorists vs benefit theorists; Orend’s unified theory (ultimate principles justifying human rights → first-level specification of human rights objections → second-level specification of human rights objects); Orend’s endorsement of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a good example of a second-level specification of human rights objects, with a few exceptions (e.g. he rejects the right to paid holidays on the grounds that these are not so essential as to qualify as a vital human need, he worries the right to “fair pay” is too vague to be useful, and he is alarmed by Article 29’s claim that human rights can be limited in certain