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Ethics Exam 2

Question 1 of 30

1

What is the human function, according to Aristotle is

Select one of the following:

  • virtue

  • Rational activity

  • courage

  • pleasure

  • happiness

Explanation

Question 2 of 30

1

According to Aristotle, virtue is ___ but not___for living the good life

Select one of the following:

  • Difficult - important

  • Important - necessary

  • Helpful - necessary

  • Sufficient - necessary

  • Necessary - sufficient

Explanation

Question 3 of 30

1

According to Aristotle, a good that is complete (final)

Select one of the following:

  • Valuable for its own sake, intrinsically

  • Never valuable for the sake of something else

  • Not valuable

  • All of the above

  • A and b

Explanation

Question 4 of 30

1

Which of the following is not a virtue of character?

Select one of the following:

  • temperance

  • courage

  • generosity

  • Theoretical wisdom

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 5 of 30

1

According to Aristotle, happiness (or eudaimonia) is the highest good for humans because it is the only good that is

Select one of the following:

  • Self sufficient

  • Complete or final

  • Instrumentally valuable

  • A and b

  • A, b, c

Explanation

Question 6 of 30

1

If an action is virtuous then, according to Aristotle, it must be

Select one of the following:

  • Pleasing to the one performing it

  • The product of a disposition acquired by habituation

  • Performed for the right reason

  • All of the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 7 of 30

1

The ability to decide in accordance with the Doctrine of the Mean requires which intellectual virtue according to Aristotle

Select one of the following:

  • Theoretical wisdom

  • Practical wisdom

  • courage

  • generosity

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 8 of 30

1

According to Aristotle, practical wisdom

Select one of the following:

  • Excellence at contemplation

  • Excellence at deliberation

  • Having good ends

  • B and C

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 9 of 30

1

Aristotle argues that virtue is acquired through habituation. This in tension is with his claim that

Select one of the following:

  • Eudaimonia the highest good

  • We can be held responsible for our characters

  • Virtuous activity is pleasant

  • Having virtue is a necessary condition for being happy

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 10 of 30

1

The Ancient Greek term eudaimonia is often translated in English as “happiness” but a less misleading translation in the context of Aristotle’s philosophy would be

Select one of the following:

  • Virtue

  • Deliberation

  • Pleasure

  • Justice

  • Humane flourishing

Explanation

Question 11 of 30

1

According to Hume, reason

Select one of the following:

  • Cannot motivate by itself

  • Is the slave of passion

  • Determines whether our ideas are true or false

  • Cannot combat passion

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 12 of 30

1

According to an ethical subjectivist like Hume, making a moral distinction (e.g. Lying is wrong) is

Select one of the following:

  • Making a judgement that can be rationally assessed

  • An attempt to represent the facts

  • A display of virtue

  • Expressing a particular kind of sentiment

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 13 of 30

1

There is a significant amount of agreement amongst us regarding the more distinctions we make Hume explains this by appealing to a particular feature of human nature, namely

Select one of the following:

  • Utility

  • Sympathy

  • Pleasure

  • Passion

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 14 of 30

1

According to an ethical subjectivist like Hume, someone who utters “Cheating is wrong!” us saying something

Select one of the following:

  • True

  • False

  • Reasonable

  • Unreasonable

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 15 of 30

1

Ideas, but not impressions, are true or false (or reasonable/unreasonable) because ideas, unlike impressions

Select one of the following:

  • Are always true

  • Are always false

  • Purport to represent how things are

  • Are just given

  • Feel good

Explanation

Question 16 of 30

1

Pleasure is a complete good but not the highest good,according to Aristotle

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 30

1

There is only one kind of rational activity, acc to aristotle, namely, contemplation

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 30

1

According to Aristotle, a person can be generous but not courageous

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 30

1

According to Aristotle, a person can be practically wise, but not theoretically wise

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 30

1

Virtues of character are explained by Aristotle in terms of means between excesses and deficiencies

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 21 of 30

1

All actions are capped by good (or real) pleasures, according to Aristotle

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 22 of 30

1

All of our actions aim at some ultimate purpose, according to Aristotle

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 23 of 30

1

According to Hume, ethics has nothing to do with subjective feelings

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 24 of 30

1

Some passions are unreasonable in and of themselves, according to Hume

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 25 of 30

1

According to Hume, what looks like a battle between reason and passion is really a battle between a calm passion and a violent passion

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 26 of 30

1

Hume argues in favor of the view that reason can motivate us all by itself

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 27 of 30

1

Some of our impressions are false, according to Hume

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 30

1

There is always a way to resolve an ethical disagreement by appeal to reason, according to an ethical subjectivist

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 29 of 30

1

Ethical subjectivism is a normative ethical theory

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 30 of 30

1

According to Hume, reason’s job is to serve the passions

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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