Ethics Exam 2

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Philosophy Quiz sobre Ethics Exam 2, criado por Emily Edmonds em 24-04-2018.
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Questão 1

Questão
What is the human function, according to Aristotle is
Responda
  • virtue
  • Rational activity
  • courage
  • pleasure
  • happiness

Questão 2

Questão
According to Aristotle, virtue is ___ but not___for living the good life
Responda
  • Difficult - important
  • Important - necessary
  • Helpful - necessary
  • Sufficient - necessary
  • Necessary - sufficient

Questão 3

Questão
According to Aristotle, a good that is complete (final)
Responda
  • Valuable for its own sake, intrinsically
  • Never valuable for the sake of something else
  • Not valuable
  • All of the above
  • A and b

Questão 4

Questão
Which of the following is not a virtue of character?
Responda
  • temperance
  • courage
  • generosity
  • Theoretical wisdom
  • None of the above

Questão 5

Questão
According to Aristotle, happiness (or eudaimonia) is the highest good for humans because it is the only good that is
Responda
  • Self sufficient
  • Complete or final
  • Instrumentally valuable
  • A and b
  • A, b, c

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

Questão
The ability to decide in accordance with the Doctrine of the Mean requires which intellectual virtue according to Aristotle
Responda
  • Theoretical wisdom
  • Practical wisdom
  • courage
  • generosity
  • All of the above

Questão 8

Questão
According to Aristotle, practical wisdom
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  • Excellence at contemplation
  • Excellence at deliberation
  • Having good ends
  • B and C
  • All of the above

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

Questão
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
Responda
  • Virtue
  • Deliberation
  • Pleasure
  • Justice
  • Humane flourishing

Questão 11

Questão
According to Hume, reason
Responda
  • Cannot motivate by itself
  • Is the slave of passion
  • Determines whether our ideas are true or false
  • Cannot combat passion
  • All of the above

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

Questão
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
Responda
  • Utility
  • Sympathy
  • Pleasure
  • Passion
  • None of the above

Questão 14

Questão
According to an ethical subjectivist like Hume, someone who utters “Cheating is wrong!” us saying something
Responda
  • True
  • False
  • Reasonable
  • Unreasonable
  • None of the above

Questão 15

Questão
Ideas, but not impressions, are true or false (or reasonable/unreasonable) because ideas, unlike impressions
Responda
  • Are always true
  • Are always false
  • Purport to represent how things are
  • Are just given
  • Feel good

Questão 16

Questão
Pleasure is a complete good but not the highest good,according to Aristotle
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

Questão
There is only one kind of rational activity, acc to aristotle, namely, contemplation
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 18

Questão
According to Aristotle, a person can be generous but not courageous
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 19

Questão
According to Aristotle, a person can be practically wise, but not theoretically wise
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 20

Questão
Virtues of character are explained by Aristotle in terms of means between excesses and deficiencies
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 21

Questão
All actions are capped by good (or real) pleasures, according to Aristotle
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 22

Questão
All of our actions aim at some ultimate purpose, according to Aristotle
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 23

Questão
According to Hume, ethics has nothing to do with subjective feelings
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 24

Questão
Some passions are unreasonable in and of themselves, according to Hume
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 25

Questão
According to Hume, what looks like a battle between reason and passion is really a battle between a calm passion and a violent passion
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 26

Questão
Hume argues in favor of the view that reason can motivate us all by itself
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 27

Questão
Some of our impressions are false, according to Hume
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 28

Questão
There is always a way to resolve an ethical disagreement by appeal to reason, according to an ethical subjectivist
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 29

Questão
Ethical subjectivism is a normative ethical theory
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 30

Questão
According to Hume, reason’s job is to serve the passions
Responda
  • True
  • False

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