1. According
to Spinoza, self-control, sobriety, resourcefulness, and other such virtues hailed
in the classical tradition are species of what? (297).
2. Corruption
in a society is very much like what? (297).
3. The
history of philosophy is not the same thing as what? (299).
4. The virtue of the deists is often, with
better cause, identified with the virtue of the whom? (301).
5. What play inspired Patrick Henry to coin his
famous slogan—“Give me liberty, or give me death”? (301)
6. The American leader with the deepest and
most revealing connection with the moral sense school was who? (304).
7. The moral sense school is at bottom an
attempt to what? (305).
8. What were Hume’s fundamentally Epicurean
convictions? (306).
9 From
Bruno to Jefferson what is the one truth that all deists take to the bank?
(308).
10. What is the one good
that liberalism says is always and everywhere good? (312).
Alternative discussion questions.
1.
“If our conscience
delivers sensory knowledge of good and evil as properties that inhere in the
things themselves, … how come different people disagree so completely and irreconcilably
about the moral status of particular things?” Present an argument that the
taking of any life is not justified and conversely that the taking of some
lives is justified.
2.
Based on what you have
read in this chapter, do you have a better idea of what Jefferson meant by “the
pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration
of Independence? Why or why not?
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