PHI 302 Week 1 Quiz

 PHI 302  Week 1 Quiz | Wilmington University

Week 1 Quiz: Chapters 1 & 2

Question 1

"Human beings should always act in the interests of others." Is this  

·         analytic?  

·         prescriptive?    

·         descriptive?  

·         metaethical?

 

Question 2

According to the author of the text moral conflicts can be resolved through  

·         religion.  

·         rational compromise.    

·         tradition.  

·         social acceptability.

 

Question 3

All human beings should act in their own self-interest according to the universal ethical egoist.  

·         True    

·         False

 

Question 4

Ethics is  

·         the study of human behavior.  

·         the study of right and wrong.    

·         the study of knowledge.  

·         the study of what is socially acceptable.  

·         the study of the nature of reality.

 

Question 5

Goodness is  

·         whatever I say it is.  

·         excellence. 

·         defined by God.  

·         harmony and creativity.  

·         that which brings happiness and pleasure.  

·         a combination of a, b, and c.

 

Question 6

If human beings are the source of value then morality is  

·         subjective.  

·         natural.    

·         supernatural.  

·         objective.

 

Question 7

Atheists cannot be moral.  

·         True  

·         False

 

Question 8

Philosophers demand in general that beliefs, propositions, and ideas be examined  

·         with the Bible in hand.  

·         without evaluation.  

·         according to tradition.  

·         critically.

 

 

Question 9

If you are a psychological egoist you believe that people should help others.  

·         True  

·         False

 

 

Question 10

The most important moral issues arise for most ethicists when human beings come together in  

·         matrimony.  

·         harmony.  

·         social groups.    

·         religions.

 

Question 11

One of the main difficulties of consequentialist theories is that it is very difficult to discover and determine all possible consequences.  

·         True    

·         False

 

Question 12

Who said that morality was bound up with the function of a human being?  

·         Aristotle    

·         Jacques Thiroux  

·         Sophocles  

·         Your instructor  

·         Bill Clinton

 

Question 13

Rule utilitarians think that everyone should act according to the rule that is in their self-interest.

  

·         True  

·         False

 

Question 14

Why, according to the author of the textbook, should humans be moral?  

·         common human needs    

·         tradition 

·         law 

·         self-interest

 

Question 15

So called "feminist ethics" involves the belief that women think about ethics differently than men.  

·         True    

·         False

 

Question 16

Carol Gilligan suggests that a basis for morality must include    

·         the moral law  

·         care    

·         consequences  

·         virtue

 

Question 17

Ayn Rand said the self-interests of rational human beings would never conflict.  

·         True   

·         False

 

Question 18

Consequentialists believe that the central part of moral action is

·         the other  

·         the self  

·         the virtues  

·         the consequences

 

Question 19

You are an act utilitarian if you believe that an act is wrong if it is culturally unacceptable.  

·         True    

·         False

 

Question 20

Who argued that an action is right if it helps in "bringing about a desirable or good end"?    

·         the deontologists  

·         the ethical egoists  

·         the mormons  

·         the utilitarians