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PHIL Exam #2

Question 1 of 50

1

One of the problems raised against Kant's view is that

Select one of the following:

  • An unjust act might promote more utility than a just act

  • moral truths are absolutes and absolutes cam conflict

  • there are no actions that are just

  • we have a duty to be unjust if it promotes happiness

Explanation

Question 2 of 50

1

Who wrote, "On Liberty"?

Select one of the following:

  • John Hospers

  • Robert Nozick

  • Immanuel Kant

  • John Stuart Mill

Explanation

Question 3 of 50

1

Kant's view is a rationalist view, which means that reason tells us which rules will promote the greatest good

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 4 of 50

1

"The gap between the rich and the poor is wide" is

Select one of the following:

  • descriptive

  • normative

  • imperative

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 5 of 50

1

"the gap between the rich and the poor is unjust" is

Select one of the following:

  • descriptive

  • normative

  • imperative

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 6 of 50

1

How are we to choose which rules are best, according to rule utilitarianism?

Select one of the following:

  • Rules should be selected by faith alone

  • Rules should be selected by reason alone

  • Rules should be selected by experience alone

Explanation

Question 7 of 50

1

According to rule utilitarianism, moral rules are intrinsically valuable

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 50

1

The idea that all moral knowledge comes through experience alone is known as

Select one of the following:

  • Libertarianism

  • Rationalism

  • Utilitarianism

  • Empiricism

Explanation

Question 9 of 50

1

How are we to choose which rules are best, according to Kant

Select one of the following:

  • Rules should be selected by faith alone

  • Rules should be selected by reason alone

  • Rules should be selected by experience alone

Explanation

Question 10 of 50

1

On a utilitarian view, moral truths may be known with certainty

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 11 of 50

1

According to libertarianism, what kinds of laws are justified?

Select one of the following:

  • Paternalistic laws

  • laws that require us to help others

  • laws that protect us from harm from others

  • all of the above

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 12 of 50

1

the object of On Liberty is to assert one principle. what is that principle

Select one of the following:

  • the categorical imperative

  • the Harm Principle

  • Gresham's law

  • the Principle of Utility

Explanation

Question 13 of 50

1

according to the principle defended in on liberty

Select one of the following:

  • the right act is the one that promotes the greatest good for the greatest number

  • we are never permitted to interfere with a person's liberty

  • paternalistic intervention in the lives of mature adults is not permitted

  • all of the above

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 14 of 50

1

Mill argues that the reason we are free is that we are born with inalienable rights, on of them bing the right to liberty

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 15 of 50

1

What is meant by "utility" in On Liberty

Select one of the following:

  • Natural rights

  • Rational duty

  • Physical pleasure

  • all of the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 16 of 50

1

Even if a controversial view is true, if the majority believes it is false, the controversial view should not be allowed because it will make the majority unhappy, according to Mill

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 50

1

If a view is false and offensive to the greatest number, it should not be allowed because of the pain it will produce, according to Mill

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 50

1

Which of the following is true regarding Mill's view on the liberty of action?

Select one of the following:

  • We are only free to do those action that promote the greatest good for the greatest number

  • we are free to do anything at all

  • we are free only to treat humanity as an end and never as a means only

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 19 of 50

1

Does Mill think we should be able to do things that hurt ourselves if they hurt only ourselves?

Select one of the following:

  • Yes, because Mill thought we had a natural right to liberty

  • No, because when persons hurt themselves, even if they hurt only themselves, the amount of pain in the world increases

  • Yes, because allowing people to choose form themselves is an indispensable element in utility in the largest sense grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being

Explanation

Question 20 of 50

1

What is Mill's view of what he calls "experiments of living"

Select one of the following:

  • They should be allowed only if they provide the greatest good for the greatest number

  • Experience has shown that they cause more harm than good

  • If people want to experiment with new or different lifestyles, they should be allowed to do so, as long as they don't harm others

Explanation

Question 21 of 50

1

according to the text and the lecture, justice is about what promotes the most utility

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 22 of 50

1

if a person has a negative right to something (a negative right to life, liberty, property, for example), that negative right requires that others provide something to the person with the right

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 23 of 50

1

According to Mill, paternalism promotes utility in the largest sense

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 24 of 50

1

According to Mill, unless a view is examined fully, frequently, and fearlessly

Select one of the following:

  • It will be held as a dead dogma, not as a living truth

  • it will be held in the manner of a prejudice with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds

  • the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 25 of 50

1

Who wrote, "What Libertarianism is"?

Select one of the following:

  • John Hospers

  • Robert Nozick

  • Immanuel Kant

  • John Stuart Mill

Explanation

Question 26 of 50

1

A right is a claim or entitlement to something

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 27 of 50

1

If a person has a positive right to something (life, liberty, property, for example) then others have an obligation not to interfere with a person's exercise of that right. They have no obligation to do or provide something for the person, only an obligation not to do something

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 50

1

If the right to life is a positive right, we have an obligation to provide the bare minimum needed to stay alive

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 29 of 50

1

If the right to life is negative, we have only the obligation not to kill each other unjustly

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 30 of 50

1

If the right to property is a positive right, people are entitled to the property they need

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 31 of 50

1

Kant thinks lying is wrong because of the emotional pain it causes, not merely the physical pain

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 32 of 50

1

On Kant's view, moral truths may be known with certainty

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 33 of 50

1

Kant's view is deontological. That means it is rooted in religion rather than consequences

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 34 of 50

1

which of the following is an imperative?

Select one of the following:

  • People always act on the maxim they can will as a universal law

  • treating humanity always as an end is right

  • be happy!

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 35 of 50

1

According to Kant, pleasure is intrinsically valuable

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 36 of 50

1

A hypothetical imperative is in the form, "If you want X, then do Y!"

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 37 of 50

1

Kant thought moral imperatives are hypothetical imperatives

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 38 of 50

1

A will is a good will if and only if it sincerely desires to do the right thing and always acts according to that desire

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 39 of 50

1

If a person does the right thing by keeping a promise, that act has no moral worth if it solely out of love for the prewar, on Kant's view

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 40 of 50

1

A good will, according to Kant, is the will that chooses according to reason and is not swayed by desire

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 41 of 50

1

Kant's view is like rule utilitarianism in that

Select one of the following:

  • according to both, moral rules can be know with certainty

  • according to both, human happiness is an essential component of morality

  • according to both, the formulation of rules is an important part of moral deliberation

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 42 of 50

1

According to Kant, it is always wrong to treat a person as a means

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 43 of 50

1

On Kant's view, lying to keep from hurting a person's feelings treats that person merely as a means

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 44 of 50

1

Treating a person better than he or she deserves treats that person as an end by recognizing the intrinsic value of that person

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 45 of 50

1

Which of the following is a correct formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative?

Select one of the following:

  • act only on that maxim that you can at the same time want to be a universal law

  • so act as to treat humanity, whether yourself or others, in every case as an end withal never as a mens only

  • people always act on the maxim they can at the same time will that they should become a universal law

  • all of the above

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 46 of 50

1

if a person does what is right out of self-love the act has no moral worth, according to Kant, but if it is done out of love for humanity, that person's act has great moral worth, according to Kant

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 47 of 50

1

when Mill says that we have the liberty of tastes and pursuits, he means only that we have the liberty to think and say what we choose

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 48 of 50

1

Kant's view is a relativist view

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 49 of 50

1

On Kant's view,

Select one of the following:

  • we know that lying promises are wrong through our universal experience of the pain that lying promises cause

  • we know that lying promise are wrong because the rule that allows it leads to contradiction

  • all moral imperatives are hypothetical imperatives

  • all of the above

  • none of the above

Explanation

Question 50 of 50

1

if a person does the right thing because reason says to do it, the act has no moral worth unless the person is motivated by a genuine love of humanity

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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