A.   psychological

B.   philosophical

C.   political

D.   sociological

A.   everyone agrees that they are right.

B.   they do not violate any agreements.

C.   they are permitted by rules that free, equal, and rational people would agree to live by.

D.   they do not violate anyone’s rights.

A.   there is no possible action that does not break the law.

B.   every possible course of action ends up harming everyone.

C.   all people benefit if all people pursue their short-term interests.

D.   all people benefit if all people refrain from pursuing their short-term interests.

A.   Thomas Hobbes.

B.   Immanuel Kant.

C.   John Stuart Mill.

D.   Aristotle.

A.   prevent people from invading one another’s privacy.

B.   prevent the immoral behavior that often results from higher education.

C.   ensure that the choices of the contractors are fair.

D.   remind us of how much we don’t know.

A.   no one ever breaks one’s agreements.

B.   all of the laws are easy to understand.

C.   there are reliable threats against breaking mutually beneficial rules.

D.   there is no government.

A.   we have tacitly consented to do so.

B.   we have explicitly consented to do so.

C.   doing so maximizes overall utility.

D.   doing so is commanded by God.

A.   be selfish.

B.   be selfish, be unconcerned with the well-being of others, and have a strong concern for how well you are faring in life.

C.   have a strong concern for how well you are faring in life.

D.   be unconcerned with the well-being of others.

A.   What kinds of things are intrinsically good?

B.   What would benefit me most?

C.   What is the right thing to do?

D.   What kind of person should I be?

A.   Immanuel Kant.

B.   John Stuart Mill.

C.   Aristotle.

D.   W. D. Ross.

A.   they benefit everyone and harm no one.

B.   there are good reasons to perform them.

C.   they would be performed by a virtuous person.

D.   there are good reasons to perform them, they benefit everyone and harm no one, and they would be performed by a virtuous person.

A.   would be entirely absent from a virtuous person.

B.   play a crucial role in moral understanding.

C.   tend to make us violate our duties.

D.   are irrelevant to morality.

A.   must be acquired through training.

B.   must be acquired through training and is guaranteed to make us happy.

C.   is inborn.

D.   is guaranteed to make us happy.

A.   made false and damaging claims about women

B.   made false and damaging claims about women, ignored female perspectives on ethical issues, and discounted the philosophical interest of women’s experiences.

C.   discounted the philosophical interest of women’s experiences.

D.   ignored female perspectives on ethical issues.

A.   men and women should always be treated the same, the experiences of women are vital to a full understanding of morality, and there are no innate differences between men and women.

B.   men and women should always be treated the same.

C.   there are no innate differences between men and women.

D.   the experiences of women are vital to a full understanding of morality.

A.   the importance of vulnerability

B.   the importance of vulnerability, the importance of not having control over important aspects of one’s life, and the importance of dependence and connectedness to others

C.   the importance of not having control over important aspects of one’s life

D.   the importance of dependence and connectedness to others

A.   the ethic of care.

B.   maternalism.

C.   the ethic of procreation.

D.   ethical pluralism.

A.   women are innately more compassionate than men.

B.   all women share a common approach to morality.

C.   men tend to be more morally developed than women.

D.   women tend to respond to moral conflict differently from men.

A.   continence.

B.   eudaimonia.

C.   virtue.

D.   pleasure.