Introduction to Ethics

Study Questions

Thomson Lecture

1.) What issue isn't Dr. Thomson addressing in her article?  Why isn't she?

2.) What step in the anti-abortionist argument does Dr. Thomson call into question?

3.) What is the violinist case, and what does Dr. Thomson intend for it to illustrate?

4.) #1 and #2 consider what type of case?  What is the difference between them?

5.) How does Dr. Thomson discuss the cases where there is some voluntary component to getting pregnant?

6.) Does Dr. Thomson think that there is an automatic and special moral obligation between mother and child?