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Which of the following expresses a value statement?
Europe should accept more refugees from war-torn countries
The new Dell computer is twice as fast as the old one
That coffee isn’t worth $9
Deer do not feel pain when shot
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Question 2
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“Gena lost her first tennis match of the day. Then, she proceeded to lose her second match. An upset is possible, but I don’t see the trend changing during this match.”
Analogical
Example
Authority
Deductive
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Question 3
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Claiming that GMO crops are artificial and therefore dangerous, is basically using which argument?
The Unnatural argument
The Playing God argument
Definition Argument
A violation of rights
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Which would accurately summarize the Euthyphro problem?
Does God create good, or does God just know what good is and then do it?
Is there the possibility of morality without God?
How can one be moral under Divine Command Theory if one doesn’t believe in God?
There are no principles if God is dead, but an there still be principles if God once lived?
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What is normative ethical relativism?
The belief that there are no universally valid moral principles; rightness or wrongness is purely dependent on society.
It describes the fact that most all different cultures have different opinions on moral matters.
It claims that there can be no objective values.
It cannot exist in nature.
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Which of the following sums up Thoreau’s idea about the value of government?
Government should mostly get out of the way to let people thrive.
Government is tasked with delivery of certain needs, like food and health care.
Government should generally demand the submission of its people in extreme times, such as war.
A government based on majority rule is generally the most just.
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What do all Consequentialist theories have in common?
They measure ethicalness of an action by the pleasantness of its consequences.
They agree on how to measure happiness
They disagree on incorporating any values other than consequences into the calculation of what to do.
They don’t share anything universally in common
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For Utilitarians, happiness is essentially defined as:
presence of pleasure and absence of pain
Moral codes given by society
Total pleasure, regardless of negative aspects
Happiness level of the majority
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What is Kant’s basic problem with consequentialist thinking?
An act can be wrong, even if it leads to good consequences
He didn’t care about consequences
He intuitively disliked hedonist flourishing
He wanted a system with a universal theory of value
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Why does Kant think that a good will is the only intrinsic good?
It is the only thing that is good without qualification
natural gifts don’t lead to good ends
Nothing else has good intentions
It can negate bad fortune
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Question 11
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What might we say that the term telos, as used by Aristotle, is the equivalent of in modern terminology?
The meaning of life
Virtue
The way that things are going to end.
Happiness of flourishing.
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Which of the following would most likely be a postmodernist statements about The Good?
The good is what we believe it to be.
The good is a maxim that can be universalized to all people and situations.
The good is the objective true understood in a life of faith.
The good is highly dependent on the rational findings of science.
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Why were the founding American rights theorists, such as Jefferson and Paine, insistent that the rights of man were to be located in nature or a divine being, as opposed to the new American government?
They were afraid that rights given by legislation alone could easily be taken away
They strongly believe in Will Rights
They were against Natural Law reasoning from the pre-Enlightenment
they wanted to follow Kant
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Most social contract theory begins with what kind of theory?
Positing an idea of humans in the state of nature, with no government.
Beginning with positing the natural rights from the natural law.
A belief in the rationality of humans as opposed to the irrationality of animals.
Political documents defining a society’s values.
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Question 15
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Which wealth distribution theory holds that the problem with wealth distribution would be best dealt with by worker ownership of production, rather than government redistribution or public ownership or production?
Anarcho-syndicalism
laissez-faire Capitalism
Command Communism
Free Market Socialism
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