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Philosophy Quiz on Ethics Exam 4, created by Emily Edmonds on 24/04/2018.
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Question 1

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Which of the following is NOT a formulation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative?
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  • The greatest happiness formulation
  • The universal law formulation
  • The formula of humanity
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Question 2

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The role of reason, according to Kant, is
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  • To find the means to happiness
  • To find the means to pleasure
  • To serve the passions
  • To perfect a goodwill
  • None of the above

Question 3

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According to Kant, it is not the _ the action, but, rather, the _ the action that determines the rightness or wrongness of an action
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  • Intention behind - happiness produced
  • Pleasure produced - happiness produced
  • Consequences of - intention behind
  • Intention behind - consequences of
  • None of the above

Question 4

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According to Singer, eating the meat of non-human animals would be morally justifiable if
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  • Animals would consent to it
  • Doing so would result in more pleasure and less pain than not doing so
  • Doing so was in line with the categorical imperative
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Question 5

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The moral law, according to Kant, is
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  • The law of reason
  • The categorical imperative
  • The law that rational beings freely give to themselves
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Question 6

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Because desert is central to Kant’s retributivist justification of punishment, he argues that punishment must always be __ the crime
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  • Harsher than
  • Indifferent to
  • Proportional to
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Question 7

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According to the first formulation of the categorical imperative (the universal law formulation)
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  • We should try to maximize happiness
  • We should always treat people as ends in themselves
  • Never treat people as mere means
  • Never act on maxims that cannot be accepted by all rat agents
  • B and c

Question 8

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Which of the following labels is appropriate for Kant’s moral philosophy?
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  • Utilitatian
  • Teleological
  • Consequentialist
  • Empiricist
  • None of the above

Question 9

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According to Kant, freedom is
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  • The ability to satisfy one’s desires
  • The ability to maximize happiness
  • Just another word for “nothing left to lose”
  • The ability to act for the sake of the moral law
  • None of the above

Question 10

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According to Singer, the principle of equality requires
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  • Treating people as ends in themselves
  • Never treating people as mere means
  • Equal treatment for all members of the moral community
  • Never discounting arbitrarily the interests of any members of the moral community
  • None of the above

Question 11

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Kant’s moral theory is
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  • utilitarian
  • empirical
  • deontological
  • consequentialist
  • Teleological

Question 12

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Speciesism is
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  • A version of utilitarianism that says we should maximize good for one species
  • A version of deontology that says only members of one species can act rationally
  • A version of virtue ethics that says only members of our species can be virtuous
  • A prejudice or attitude of bias toward the interests of the members of one’s own species
  • None of the above

Question 13

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The moral law is different from the law of nature, according to Kant, is that
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  • The moral law only applies to rational beings
  • The moral law is a law that we feely give to ourselves
  • The moral law is a law we can freely choose to act on
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Question 14

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We determine the intention with which a person acts by specifying __
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  • The maxim for which s/he acted
  • The consequences of the action
  • The person's character
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Question 15

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Duties whose conditions of application are discretionary are called
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  • Indirect
  • Indiscrete
  • Immoral
  • Imperfect
  • None of above

Question 16

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According to Kant things can be used as mere means to our ends, but people can't because
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  • People are ineffective means to one’s ends
  • When people find out they have been used in this way they'll do the same to use
  • Unlike things, people have dignity
  • People are not that gullible
  • None of the above

Question 17

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An imperfect duty can be derived from Kant’s first formulation of the Categorical Imperative (universal law formation) by showing that
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  • The action in question treats a person as a mere means
  • The action in question fails to treat people as ends in themselves
  • The maxim of the action generates a contradiction in conception when we attempt to universalize it
  • The maxim of the action generates a contradiction in will when we attempt to universalize it
  • None of the above

Question 18

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Which of the following descriptions of being motivated to do charity work does NOT reveal that an agent has a goodwill, according to Kant
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  • Being motivated to do charity work for the sake of duty
  • Being motivated to do charity work out of respect for the moral law
  • Being motivated to do charity work because of a natural inclination to help people
  • Being motivated to do charity work from reason alone
  • None of the above

Question 19

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A hypothetical imperative is
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  • A dictate of reason
  • Only binding on us if we have certain ends
  • Binding on all rational agents regardless of their particular ends
  • A and b
  • A and c

Question 20

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A categorical imperative is
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  • A dictate of reason
  • Only binding on us if we have certain ends
  • Binding on all rational agents regardless of their particular ends
  • A and b
  • A and c

Question 21

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All beings with interests are members of the moral community, according to Singer. And, he argues that the basic requirement for having interests is
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  • rationality
  • sentience
  • virtue
  • Being human
  • Speaking a language

Question 22

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Prohibitions (or restrictions) on acting in certain ways regardless of the consequences (good or bad) are called
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  • Indirect duties
  • Utilitarian calculations
  • Imperfect duties
  • Hypothetical imperatives
  • Deontological constraints

Question 23

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According to Kant, actions that have moral worth
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  • Maximize happiness
  • Are motivated by respect for the moral law
  • Reveal a good will
  • All of the above
  • B and a

Question 24

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Which of the following is NOT a utilitarian justification for the social/legal practice of punishment?
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  • It deters would be criminal from com crime
  • It gives criminals what they deserve
  • Provides comfort to victims and their families/friends
  • It rehabilitates certain criminal
  • Protects society from dangerous criminals

Question 25

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According to Kant, acting morally is not about aiming at some independently specificable good or goal (eg happ understood as pleaser and the absences of pain) but rather a matter of respecting our duties as rational being. This is another way of saying that Kant’s moral theory is ___ but rather ___.
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  • Empiricist - rationalist
  • Consequentialist - intentionalist
  • Teleological - deontological
  • Utilitarian - virtue ethical
  • None of the above

Question 26

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According to Kant, an attempt to universalize the maxim “making a lying promise to get out of financial difficulty” leads to a contradiction in conception
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  • True
  • False

Question 27

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The goodwill, according to Kant, is the only thing good without qualification
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  • True
  • False

Question 28

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Kant agrees with Hume that the only source of motivation is natural inclination
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  • True
  • False

Question 29

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According to Kant, we determine the rightness or wrongness of an action by appealing to empirical evidence (experience)
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  • True
  • False

Question 30

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According to Kant, being free is being able to satisfy all your wants (natural inclinations)
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  • True
  • False

Question 31

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Kant’s second formula of the Categorical Imperative (the formulation of humanity) yields a perfect duty not to perform a given action if performing that action would be to treat people as a mere means
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  • True
  • False

Question 32

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Kant argues that our intentions in acting are irrelevant in determining whether or not our actions are right or wrong
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  • True
  • False

Question 33

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All beings that are sentient have interests and therefore are members of the MC, according to Singer
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  • True
  • False

Question 34

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According to Kant, only rational being are members of the MC
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  • True
  • False

Question 35

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According to Kant, it is never morally acceptable to treat a person as a mere means, even if overall happiness would be increased
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  • True
  • False

Question 36

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Singer argues in favor of the view that it is never justified to perform experiments on animals
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  • True
  • False

Question 37

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According to Kant, respect for the moral law is a kind of natural inclination
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  • True
  • False

Question 38

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According to Kant, non-human animals are members of the MC and we therefore have a direct duty not to mistreat them
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  • True
  • False

Question 39

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The moral law is binding on all rational being regardless of what their particular ends are
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  • True
  • False

Question 40

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Only geniuses can figure out what the moral law requires of us, according to Kant
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  • True
  • False
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