PHI 302 Week 4 Quiz

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Week 4 Quiz: Chapter 5

Question 1

An example of a moral proposition is  

·         "Nothing can be both A and not A." 

·         "Her hair is brown."  

·         "You should not treat people badly."  

·         "I feel sick."

 

Question 2

Exceptions to absolutes must  

·         not be contemplated.  

·         not exist.  

·         be fully justified.  

·         be carefully concealed.

 

Question 3

Relativists hold that morals are relative to  

·         situations.  

·         individuals.  

·         all of the above. 

·         culture.

 

Question 4

Similar moral principles exist in all societies is a view supported by  

·         absolutists.  

·         deconstructionists.  

·         relativists. 

·         colonialists.

 

 

Question 5

The greatest problem in the absolutism/relativism debate is how to introduce  

·         stability and creativity. 

·         freedom and liberty.  

·         courage and honesty.  

·         reason and evidence.

 

Question 6

The problem of "getting an ought from an is" means  

·         what you should do is determined by how you feel.  

·         what people should do has no necessary connection to what they actually do.  

·         what you ought to do is often very difficult.  

·         what people like to do is actually what they in fact do.

 

Question 7

The theory of emotivism states that  

·         moral propositions only express feelings.  

·         we should get back in touch with our emotions.  

·         emotions in morality must be balanced with reason.  

·         all emotions in morals are bad.

 

Question 8

Who claims that some empirical propositions are absolutely true or false?  

·         Adolf Hitler  

·         Norman Malcolm  

·         Jacques Derrida  

·         Marquis de Sade

 

Question 9

Who stated the "naturalistic fallacy" in ethics? 

·         G.E. Moore  

·         J. S. Mill  

·         Aristotle  

·         John Hospers

 

Question 10

Who says that there are moral "near or almost absolutes" that form the basic principles of moral life?  

·         Hospers  

·         Kant  

·         Sting  

·         Thiroux