●Question 1
3 out of 3 points
The branch of ethics that explores answer to the question, "Is abortion morally
right or wrong?" is
Selected
Answer: Normative
ethics
●Question 2
3 out of 3 points
If you believe that moral facts are mind-dependent then you think they are:
Selected
Answer: Invente
d
●Question 3
3 out of 3 points
Which branch of ethics asks nonmoral questions about morality?
Selected
Answer: Metaethic
s
●Question 4
3 out of 3 points
According to ethical naturalism, moral properties are:
Selected
Answer: Grounded in natural
properties
●Question 5
3 out of 3 points
The branch of ethics that explores answer to the question, "What grounds
moral facts?" is
Selected
Answer: Metaethic
s
●Question 6
0 out of 3 points
Subjectivist metaethical theories are:
Selected
Answer: realis
t
●Question 7
3 out of 3 points
According to the atheist Bertrand Russell, if there is no God, then all we can do
is build our lives on the firm foundation of unyielding despair.
Selected
Answer: Tru
e
●Question 8
3 out of 3 points
One advantage of Theism over Platonic Atheism, is that:
Selected
Answer: Theism ultimately grounds moral facts in a person, whereas they
are brute facts for Platonic Atheism.
●Question 9
3 out of 3 points
Just because an individual (or group of individuals) believe something is the
case, that doesn't mean it is the case.
Selected
Answer:
Tr
ue
●Question 10
3 out of 3 points
Examples of noncogitivist metaethical theories include:
Selected
Answer: Prescriptivis
m
●Question 11
3 out of 3 points
According to emotivism, "murder is wrong" is understood to mean:
Selected
Answer: "I disapprove of
murder"
●Question 12
3 out of 3 points
According to simple subjectivism, whatever an individual believes to be true is
true (for that person).
Selected
Answer:
Tr
ue
●Question 13
Needs Grading
Which metaethical theory holds that morality is subjective and grounded in
attitudes?
Selected
Answer:
The Meta-ethical theory that holds as subjective and grounded in
attitued is the theory of Meta-ethical Relativism.
Response
Feedback:
[None Given]
●Question 14
0 out of 3 points
Which distinction is made among Divine Command Theorists?
Selected Metaphysical/mate
Answer: rial
●Question 15
0 out of 3 points
Egoism necessarily entails the ideas that one should not help his neighbor and that
one should do whatever he/she wants to do.
Selected
Answer:
Tr
ue
●Question 16
3 out of 3 points
Normative Ethics is the branch of ethics that:
Selected
Answer:
deals with questions regarding the “how” of morality; is concerned
most centrally with questions about the way of doing morality.
●Question 17
0 out of 3 points
For MacIntyre, the process of judging the intellectual viability of ethical views is a 3-
stage process. Which is NOT one of those stages?
Selected
Answer:
A stage in which the relevant beliefs, texts, and authorities have
not been put in question
●Question 18
3 out of 3 points
The authors use the quote by Ayn Rand, man “must live for his own sake, neither
sacrificing himself to other nor sacrificing other to himself” to describe which
ethical theory?
Selected
Answer:
Egois
m
●Question 19
0 out of 3 points
The authors note that because Utilitarianism broadens its concern to all people or
an entire community, it is an improvement on Egoism.
Selected
Answer:
Fal
se
●Question 20
3 out of 3 points
Deontological theories are primarily concerned with:
Selected
Answer:
Duties, obligations, and moral
commands
●Question 21
0 out of 3 points
The authors describe the ancient concept eudaimonia (what Aristotle believed to be
the end/purpose of every man) as:
Selected
Answer:
Happine
ss
●Question 22
3 out of 3 points
A virtue is some positive characteristic of a person that is life- producing, beneficial,
or helpful in nature.
Selected
Answer:
Tr
ue
●Question 23
3 out of 3 points
In Deontological ethics, “a rule or command that is universally and objectively
applicable” is called a:
Selected
Answer:
Categorical
imperative
●Question 24
3 out of 3 points
Which of the following are objections to/weakness of utilitarianism provided by the
authors?
Selected
Answer:
All of the
above
●Question 25
0 out of 3 points
Aristotle believed that we can find virtue between the vices of excess and
deficiency. This virtuous point in between the vices he called:
Selected
Answer:
Temperan
ce
