PHIL 201 Quiz Ethical Foundations and Norms
Due Oct 13 at 11:59pm Points 75 Questions 25
Time Limit 45 Minutes
Instructions
The quiz:
Covers the Learn material from Module 8: Week 8.
Contains 25 multiple-choice, true/false and essay questions.
Is limited to 45 minutes.
Allows 1 attempt.
Is worth 75 points.
You may refer to your notes and textbooks at any time during the assessment.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday of Module 8: Week 8.
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Question 1
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Just because an individual (or group of individuals) believe
something is the case, that doesn’t mean it is the case.
True
False
Question 2 3 / 3 pts
According to emotivism, “murder is wrong” is understood to
mean:
“I disapprove of murder”
“Do not murder!”
“murder is wrong for me, but not for you”
“murder is wrong, period”
Question 3 3 / 3 pts
Objectivist metaethical theories are: Page 2 of 13
anti-realist
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realist
nominalist
univeralist
Question 4 3 / 3 pts
Which branch of ethics attempts to answer moral questions and
settle issues about what to do and who to be is:
Normative ethics
Liguistics
Metaethics
Meta-Metaethics
Question 5 3 / 3 pts
A key intuition we hold is that we owe obligations to persons,
not things, and this provides reason to think theism explains,
whereas Platonic atheism does not, the reality of objective moral
duties.
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False
Question 6 3 / 3 pts
If you believe that moral facts are mind-independent then you
think they are:
Invented
proportional
Brute
Discovered
Question 7 3 / 3 pts
According to simple subjectivism, whatever an individual
believes to be true is true (for that person).
True
False
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Question 8 3 / 3 pts
According to cognitivism: 3 / 3 pts
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Morality is grounded in attitudes
Morality is grounded in beliefs
Morality is objective
A and B
A and C
Question 9
Subjectivist metaethical theories are:
anti-realist
realist
nominalist
univeralist
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Incorrect Question 10 0 / 3 pts
If you believe that moral facts are mind-dependent then you
think they are:
Invented
proportional
Brute
Discovered
Question 11 3 / 3 pts
The branch of ethics that explores answer to the question, “What
grounds moral facts?” is
Metaethics
Normative ethics
Realistic ethics
Paranormal ethics
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Question 12 3 / 3 pts
Which branch of ethics asks nonmoral questions about
morality?
Normative ethics
Liguistics
Metaethics
Meta-Metaethics
Question 13 3 / 3 pts
The Enlightenment philosopher was one of the leading
voices for deontological ethics.
Jeremy Bentham
Immanuel Kant
Gottfried Leibniz
None of above
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Question 14 3 / 3 pts
Teleological ethical theories are primarily concerned with
commands to do right, and to avoid wrong-doing.
True
False
Question 15 3 / 3 pts
The authors note that because Utilitarianism broadens its
concern to all people or an entire community, it is an
improvement on Egoism.
True
False
Question 16 3 / 3 pts
Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy rested on the assumption
that there is a “universal rationality” shared by all people
everywhere.
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True
False
Question 17 3 / 3 pts
Deontological theories are primarily concerned with:
Duties, obligations, and moral commands
The well-being of a community
Virtue and vice
None of the above
Question 18 3 / 3 pts
Alasdair MacIntyre founded which modern ethical approach?
Neo-Platonic ethics
Contemporary Virtue Ethics
Evolutionary ethics
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None of the above
Question 19 3 / 3 pts
The authors use the quote by Ayn Rand, man “must live for his
own sake, neither sacrikcing himself to other nor sacrikcing
other to himself” to describe which ethical theory?
Ethical solipsism
Utilitarianism
Egoism
Libertarianism
Question 20 3 / 3 pts
Egoism necessarily entails the ideas that one should not help his
neighbor and that one should do whatever he/she wants to do.
True
False
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Question 21 3 / 3 pts
John Stuart Mill, a pioneer of Utilitarian ethics, sought to knd an
objective morality through an ontological basis of morality.
True
False
Question 22 3 / 3 pts
MacIntyre argues that ethics should be about constructing a
uniked approach to morality that applies to all people
everywhere.
True
False
Question 23 3 / 3 pts
Which distinction is made among Divine Command Theorists?
Unrestricted/restricted
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Catholic/protestant
Categorical/hypothetical
Metaphysical/material
Question 24 3 / 3 pts
The authors describe the ancient concept of “eudaimonia” (what
Aristotle believed to be the end/purpose of every man) as:
Happiness
Well-being
Excellence
All of the Above
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Which medieval philosopher-theologian argued that reason and Page 12 of 13
philosophy should be used as a subservient partners or servants
to theology?
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Your Answer:
Thomas Aquinas
Quiz Score: 69 out of 75
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