PART I : Please select either TRUE or FALSE in the left-hand…

Question Answered step-by-step PART I : Please select either TRUE or FALSE in the left-hand… PART I: Please select either TRUE or FALSE in the left-hand margin. TRUE         1.   According to our textbook author, a key difference between moral standards and fashion, grammatical, and technical standards (such as those of photography) is that moral standards concern behavior that has serious consequences for human welfare. FALSE        2.   According to our author, moral standards do not require reasons for support. FALSE        3.   According to our author, if some action violates the criminal law, it must be immoral. FALSE        4.   According to our author, if some action is legal, it must be morally right. Choose an item.            5.         According to our author, moral judgments require a belief in God for their philosophical basis. Choose an item.            6.         Ethical (or cultural) relativism rejects the belief that there are moral standards that are independent of particular cultures and that can be legitimately applied to all cultures. Choose an item.            7.         The cultural relativist asserts that the same practice can be morally right in one culture and morally wrong in another culture. Choose an item.            8.         Our author asserts that ethical or cultural relativism is incompatible with a belief in moral progress. Choose an item.            9.         Albert Carr asserts that ordinary moral standards requiring honesty and truthfulness do not apply to business. Choose an item.            10.        Our author asserts that we won’t do what is morally wrong if we always follow our conscience. Choose an item.            11.        According to our author, it is possible fully to accept a moral principle while having no desire or motivation to guide one’s behavior by it. Choose an item.            12.        Utilitarianism is a consequentialist ethical theory. Choose an item.            13.        A fully deontological ethical theory can also be a consequentialist one. Choose an item.            14.        Psychological egoism is a normative theory asserting that we should always promote our self-interest. Choose an item.            15.        Ethical egoism is a descriptive theory asserting that people always do what they believe is in their self-interest. Choose an item.            16.        Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill were utilitarians. Choose an item. 17.        A utilitarian believes that some actions are right because of their consequences and others are right because of the actions themselves. Choose an item. 18.        Mill, unlike Bentham, believed that pleasures can differ in quality. Choose an item. 19.        For Mill, if something has value, it will be because it either promotes pleasure or diminishes pain. Choose an item. 20.        Some critics of utilitarianism argue that the theory cannot consistently and properly value justice. Choose an item. 21.        For Kant, the only thing unconditionally good is happiness. Choose an item. 22.        For Kant, the only thing unconditionally good is love. Choose an item. 23.        For Kant, the only thing unconditionally good is a good will. Choose an item. 24.        For Kant, a good will is the same thing as sympathy for others’ suffering. Choose an item. 25.        For Kant, we have a good will to the extent we do what is right because it is right. Choose an item. 26.        For Kant, we can properly evade a moral duty if we don’t feel like fulfilling it. Choose an item. 27.        According to Kant, an acceptable moral rule is one that all rational people thinking rationally would accept. Choose an item. 28.        Rejecting Kant’s ideas, some critics have asserted that an action done from sympathy can have moral worth. Choose an item. 29.        According to Kant, it is often permissible to break promises, especially if they become somewhat inconvenient to keep. Choose an item. 30.        W.D. Ross was a utilitarian. Choose an item. 31.        According to W.D. Ross, prima facie obligations can conflict. Choose an item. 32.        For W.D. Ross, not all our moral duties can be reduced to one duty, such as a duty to make the world happier. Choose an item. 33.        Supererogatory actions are those that go beyond the call of duty. Choose an item. 34.        Some critics of utilitarianism argue that it could inappropriately require people to reject as unimportant personal plans and projects that would not maximize the general happiness. Choose an item. 35.        Some critics of utilitarianism have argued that utilitarianism could lead inappropriately to requiring acts that most people regard as charity. Part II: Please answer by selecting the appropriate upper-case letter in the left-hand margin. Choose an item. 36.        In describing the concept of justice, our author mentioned: (A) respect for moral rights; (B) fairness; (C) equality; (D) all the above. Choose an item. 37.        Nozick’s theory of justice contains which of the following principles?: (A) Lockean rights; (B) an entitlement theory; (C) a belief that economic differences or inequalities can be morally permissible; (D) all the above. Choose an item. 38.        Nozick’s libertarian theory: (A) favors free economic markets; (B) requires a belief in property rights; (C) is based on utilitarian reasoning; (D) two of the first three answers; (E) all three of the first three answers. Choose an item. 39.        The chief purpose of John Rawls’s veil of ignorance is: (A) to highlight how ignorant most people are; (B) to make sure his theory harmonizes with utilitarianism; (C) to remove possible sources of bias from criteria for defining fair principles of distributive justice; (D) all the above. Choose an item. 40.        The maximin rule is: (A) a rule that Rawls’s original decision-makers would employ; (B) one that says that in conditions of ignorance or uncertainty people should choose principles that would minimize the worst that could happen to them; (C) both A and B; (D) neither A nor B. Choose an item. 41.        Rawls: (A) rejects utilitarianism; (B) rejects Nozick’s entitlement theory; (C) accepts the possibility of economic inequalities, at least under certain conditions; (D) all the above. Choose an item. 42.        The purpose of Nozick’s Wilt Chamberlain example include: (A) showing that free economic choices will most likely lead to inequalities; (B) trying to show that theories of economic justice different from Nozick’s will fail to respect people’s liberty; (C) both A and B; (D) showing that his theory will be guaranteed to maximize happiness. Choose an item. 43.        For Nozick, economic justice: (A) concerns how people acquired their holdings and not how nearly equally a nation’s wealth is distributed; (B) concerns whether people are entitled to their holdings; (C) is compatible with some people’s inheriting a great deal of wealth that they themselves did not produce; (D) two of the first three; (E) all three of the first three. Choose an item. 44.        The following people have theories that are intended to be completely utilitarian: (A) J.S. Mill; (B) Jeremy Bentham; (C) Robert Nozick; (D) John Rawls; (E) two of the first four. Choose an item. 45.        The following concepts or principles are part of Rawls’s theory of justice: (A) rational self-interest; (B) social contract; (C) the maximin rule; (D) all three of the first three. Choose an item. 46.        According to Nozick, you are entitled to your wealth: (A) if you earned it in the marketplace without force or fraud; (B) if it was given to you as a gift from someone who acquired it  Arts & Humanities Philosophy PHIL 303E Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)