Exam 1 Contemporary Moral Philosophy

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(Q019) Religious moral codes typically provide clear and direct answers to all moral questions. T or F

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t or f (Q018) There are never any good reasons for treating someone differently from the way we treat others.

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t or f (Q016) All norms are moral norms.

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t or f According to Christopher Phillips, the Socratic Method "compels us to explore alternative perspectives, asking what must be said for or against each".

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t or f (Q020) All major religious thinkers have accepted the divine command theory.

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t or f (Q015) Feelings do not play an important role in our moral experience.

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t or f (Q014) Cultural relativism applies only when considering cultures from countries other than one's own.

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t or f (Q013) A cultural relativist will agree with this statement: "It is morally permissible to smoke marijuana in Amsterdam if the culture of Amsterdam approves of it."

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t or f (Q019) The statement "Shoplifting is wrong" attempts to influence others' attitudes about shoplifting, according to emotivists.

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t or f (Q017) Nothing is truly good or bad, according to emotivists.

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t or f (Q015) Cultural relativists can consistently claim that tolerance of other cultures is morally right everywhere.

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t or f James Rachels thinks that we can accept some of the important points of Cultural Relativism without accepting the whole theory.

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t or f (Q016) Emotivists believe that moral judgments are about feelings rather than the truth or falsity of moral statements.

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t or f (Q012) Moral agents can be mistaken about their moral experience.

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t or f (Q013) A moral theory that is internally inconsistent is not eligible for further evaluation. 

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t or f (Q014) One's considered moral judgments can be mistaken. 

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t or f (Q015) A fact of one's moral experience is that occasionally one has moral disagreements. 

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t or f (Q016) A moral theory is equivalent to a moral code. 

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t or f (Q017) To a nonconsequentialist, telling a lie is wrong primarily because it results in bad consequences. 

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t or f (Q018) Ethical egoism says that the morally right action is the one that produces the most favorable balance of good over evil for oneself. 

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t or f (Q017) One can achieve happiness by pursuing happiness directly.

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t or f (Q016) Self-interest is a pillar on which the economic system of capitalism is built.

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t or f (Q020) What matters most in act-utilitarianism is how much net happiness comes directly from performing an action, as opposed to how much happiness following a rule that applies to the action tends to create.

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t or f (Q019) According to social contract theory, morality is objective.

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t or f (Q014) An ethical egoist does whatever she or he desires to do or whatever gives her or him the most immediate pleasure.

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t or f (Q012) A major problem with utilitarianism is that it does not promote human welfare.

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t or f According to Thomas Hobbes, the first and fundamental law of nature is to seek peace and follow it.

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t or f (Q018) Utilitarianism reminds us that the consequences of actions must figure in our moral deliberations.

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t or f (Q015) Bentham and Mill had identical views on happiness.

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t or f (Q012) According to natural law theory, the general principles of right and wrong vary from person to person and from culture to culture.

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t or f (Q010) According to Aquinas, right actions are those that accord with the natural law.

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t or f (Q014) For Kant, promise keeping is a perfect duty.

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t or f (Q015) Imperfect duties are always to be followed; they have no exceptions.

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t or f (Q016) In general, intention plays a larger role in natural law theory than it does in Kant's categorical imperative.

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t or f (Q017) Kant denies the existence of imperfect duties.

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t or f (Q013) All moral philosophers accept the Golden Rule as a plausible moral theory.

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t or f (Q011) According to Kant, one must never, under any circumstances, treat a person as a means.

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t or f (Q019) The doctrine of double effect says that performing a good action may be permissible even if it has bad effects, but performing a bad action for the purpose of achieving good effects is never permissible.

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t or f (Q018) Natural law theorists maintain that some actions are always wrong.

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