Philosophy 1330 - Ethics » Fall 2022 » Midterm Exam

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Question #1
According to Socrates (and many more philosophers) morality is basically about what?
A.   how to know what is right
B.   how we ought to live
C.   utterly destroying your opponents at arguments
D.   what is true and good
Question #2
The Trolley Problem demonstrates the tension between which two moral concepts?
A.   Action and Inaction.
B.   Consquentialism and Deontology
C.   Egoism and Communalism
D.   Hedonism and Virtue
Question #3
The concept called the Veil of Ignorance is primarily concerned with what?
A.   human pleasure
B.   justice
C.   human rights
D.   utilitarianism
Question #4
The normative ethical theory that says, "moral facts are just a different way of telling someone how they should feel about something" is called what?
A.   Emotivism
B.   simple subjectivism
C.   deontological ethics
D.   ethical rhetoricalism
Question #5
The study of morality is
A.   utilitarianism
B.   relativism
C.   egoism
D.   ethics
Question #6
Which philosopher said that morality is about feelings rather than reason?
A.   Jeremy Bentham
B.   David Hume
C.   Aristotle
D.   Immanuel Kant
Question #7
Our embodied storehouse of reasoned moral concepts that we use to make decisions about value, rightness, and goodness, is called the ___________ imagination.
A.   ethical
B.   prime
C.   moral
D.   human
Question #8
An argument is ________________, if the conclusion does not logically follow from the premises (even if the premises are true)
A.   invalid
B.   simple
C.   correct
Question #9
Which of the following imperatives does Jonathan Spelman NOT argue for in his essay on Environmental Ethics?
A.   We should advocate for the protection of endangered species.
B.   We should advocate for climate-friendly policies and politicians. 
C.   We should offset our remaining emissions after reducing them.
D.   We should reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
Question #10
The view called _______________________ is that humans are the only things that deserve moral consideration.
A.   emotivism
B.   anthropocentrism
C.   subjectivism
D.   rhetoricalism

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