Philosophy 1000 Mizzou final

true

The Ring of Gyges gives one the power to become invisible at will.

• True

• False

true

Thomson discusses Plato in order to present her arguments.

• true

• false

false

According to Thomson, the Penicillin example shows that if we act rationally, we will always end up acting morally.

• True

• False

false

Thomson thinks that if fetuses are fully developed human persons, it would not be morally permissible to kill them.

• true

• false

true

Marquis argues against abortion.

• true

• false

false

Thomson argues against abortion.

• true

• false

true

Philosophers use the myth of Sisyphus to talk about the pointlessness of life.

• true

• false

false

Wolf and Taylor do not disagree about anything.

• true

• false

true

Nagel thinks that life is absurd.

• true

• false

three

How many dimensions do our relationship with the afterlife have, according to Scheffler?

 

• One

• Two

• Three

• Four

true

There would be a lot of interest in cancer research when the doomsday is around the corner.

• true

• false

Consequentialism

_________ : For it to be the case that a person ought to φ is for it to be the case that his or her φ-ing would maximize actual value.

violin

Thomson uses what instrument as a rape example?

• violin

• tuba

• guitar

• piano

murder, harm

Why is ______ wrong? What is the _____ involved?

-Marquis

Why do the right thing?

Glaucon and Adeimantus wants the answer to which of the following questions from Socrates?

Things valuable in both ways

To which class of valuable things does Socrates put justice in?

False

Most people think justice is to be valued both because of itself and because of what comes from it.

True of False

True

Glaucon thinks justice is intermediate between the best and the worst – to do injustice without penalty being the best, and to suffer injustice without being able to avenge being the worst.

True or False

False

Thomson thinks that the question Glaucon and Adeimantus asks Socrates is hard.

True or False

True

According to Thomson, - Socrates and G&A, assume the ‘Ought Only If Profitable Thesis’ to be true.

True or False

Ought Only if Profitable Thesis

‘Ought Only if Rational Thesis’ and ‘Rational Only if Profitable Thesis’ entail:

Ought Only if Logical Thesis

Ought Only if Ethical Thesis

 

Ought Only if Profitable Thesis

 

Ought Only if Moral Thesis

Penicillin

Thomson uses the following to argue against the ‘Ought Only if Rational Thesis’

Oxytocin

 

Penicillin

 

Amoxicillin

 

Azithromycin

Consequentialism

Thomson thinks that we should accept the ‘Revised Ought Only if Rational Thesis’ only if the following is true:

 

Deontology

 

Consequentialism

 

Virtue Ethics

 

Care Ethics

Killing someone

Which is commonly thought to be worse?

 

Letting someone die

 

Killing someone

True

The ‘anti-abortion’ and ‘pro-choice’ arguments have symmetries, according to Marquis.

True or False

False

The pro-choicers state that the anti-abortionist principles concerning killing are too narrow.

True or False

The harm of depriving a future

Marquis’s arguments against abortion use which of the following?

 

The harm of depriving a past

 

The harm of depriving a future

 

The harm of depriving a present

 

All of the above

Camus

According to ___ the only serious philosophical problem is suicide.

 

Sartre

 

Camus

 

Nietzsche

 

Hegel

Taylor

Which of the following philosophers think that Sisyphus being happy means his life is worth living?

Taylor

 

Wolf

 

Scheffler

 

Nagel

False

It is the amount of hardship or labor involved that makes Sisyphus’s life a perfect example of meaninglessness according to Taylor.

T/F

True

According to Taylor, the meaning of life is to be doing the bidding of the inner compulsion.

T/F

False

If nothing we do now would matter in a million years, it would make our life meaningless, according to Nagel.

T/F

An infinite regress

If nothing can justify unless it is justified in terms of something outside of itself, then, what results-

 

A finite regression

 

An infinite regress

 

A circularity

 

An infinite chaos

Two

Nagel’s thesis regarding the absurdity of life requires defense on how many grounds?

 

One

 

Two

 

Three

 

Four

False

Scheffler believes in an afterlife in the religious sense.

True

 

False

Liberalism

Which of the following is not a dimension of our attitudes towards the afterlife?

 

Conservatism

 

Non-consequentialism

 

Non-experientialism

 

Liberalism