Reference no: EM133308222
Questions
1. What field of philosophy is concerned with knowing?
Axiology
Epistemology
Knowology
Metaphysics
2. Some snarks are bandersnatches. 2. All bandersnatches are igglypoofs. 3. So, some snarks are igglypoofs
True False
3. Moral relativists believe there are no objective methods for determining ethical positions to be correct and others not.
True
False
4. Plato believed democracy was the reason the Greek empire was stronger than it had ever been.
True
False
5. Leibniz uses the concept of nomads to avoid the theological difficulties created by Spinoza's beliefs.
True
False
6. Substance dualism is the view that
the universe is composed of two elementary substances: fire and water.
every substance has two forms.
the substances in the universe are dueling with each other.
The universe is composed of two elementary substances: matter and spirit (mind).
7. Popper believes the problem of induction
has no suitable solution.
does not exist.
can be solved using deduction.
can be solved by testing conjectures through empirical experiments.
8. What makes something a theory is that it provides a general framework for explaining things
True
False
9. The only thing Aristotle thinks we need to live a good life is the feeling of happiness.
True
False
10. The first to think of erotic love as a kind of union was probably
Harry Frankfurt.
Robert Nozick.
Plato.
Aristotle.
11. The meta-ethical position that believes there are ethical truths, and they exist independent of anything's will or sentiment is called
Independent
Ethics.
Divine Command Theory.
Conventionalism. Realism.
12. If we assume morality is grounded in a Categorical Imperative, then cheating on your tests is wrong even if it is in your self-interest to cheat.
True
False
13. William Lane Craig believes the Euthyphro dilemma
cannot be resolved.
disproves DCT.
is a false dilemma.
cannot be resolved.
14. Few Virtue ethicists reject the view that ethical theories should give a set of commands that always dictate what we should do.
True
False
15. For utilitarianism, the moral rightness or wrongness of an act depends on the consequences it produces.
True
False
16. The strongest objection against ethical egoism is that it fails to be a moral theory because it
cannot deal with interpersonal conflicts of interest.
is incoherent.
goes against what religions teach us about morality.
is unfalsifiable.
17. What is not one of the three foundational theoretical commitments in the ethics of care that contemporary care theorists have established?
The contextual details of situations must be part of the decision-making process, in order to safeguard and promote the actual interests of those concerned.
Anyone who is particularly vulnerable to one's choices and their outcomes deserves extra consideration when making decisions.
Care ethics disproves deontological and consequentialist moral theories.
Persons are understood to have varying degrees of dependence and interdependence.
18. Methodological ethical naturalism desires to expand our sources for ethical inquiry to include things like astrology and psychology.
True
False
19. Pascal's wager attempts to
prove God does not want us to gamble.
show it is in one's best interest to believe in God's existence.
prove God must exist.
show there is no evidence for the existence of God.
20. One way to respond to Kant's criticism of the ontological argument is to point out
existence is not a predicate.
that predicates do not apply to God.
necessary existence is a predicate.
Predicates do not exist.
21. John Stuart Mill is famous for arguing the mind starts as a tabula rasa.
True
False
22. They said I think, therefore I exist.
Plato
Hume
Descartes
Kant
23. Hume is skeptical about causation and induction.
True
False
24. Kant hoped that we would one day have a calculus of utility that would allow us to know what action is moral.
True
False
25. Aquinas supported the Natural Law Theory of Morality.
True
False