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Moral/ethical truths are fundamentally truths of ___ , according to the REQ\\ video of Week One, the textbook and Mr. OH :)
empathy
caring
culture
reason
video at 7:58; 4LV 41Lt; #1Saturday Signals
Question 2
1 / 1 pts
"Moral philosophy" endeavors, according to the textbook, to establish by the use of reasoned principles of behavior that may serve as action guides for groups and individuals.
True
False
4LV 3L, 4L; 5Rm Incorrect
Question 3
0 / 1 pts
The Euthyphro Dilemma underscores the need for ____ in doing ethics.
reason
toleration
empathy
some form of psychological egoism
none of these
4LV 10R
Question 4
1 / 1 pts
Metaethics explores right actions and good character. True
False
4LV 12Rt
Incorrect
Question 5
0 / 1 pts
An ethical relativist holds that universal objective standards of right and wrong are extremely difficult, practically impossible to know, but still knowable.
True
False
An ethical relativist does not accept the notion that there are objective and universal moral standards
Incorrect
Question 6
0 / 1 pts
A moral objectivist believes that there are non-overrideable moral principles that must never have an exception..
True
False
4LV 20Rt
Incorrect
Question 7
0 / 1 pts
Ayn Rand proposed an altruistic system of ethics.
True
False
An REQ\\ video in Week One titled "The Morality of Altruism--Ayn Rand". She was not a proponent of altruism.
Question 8
1 / 1 pts
Cultural relativism implies that social reformers will always be wrong.
True
False
4LV 26Rm
Question 9
1 / 1 pts
Ethics and morality refer to slightly different things, according to the textbook.
True
False
4LV 3Lt
Incorrect
Question 10
0 / 1 pts
Ethics is primarily a descriptive discipline.
True
False
4LV 5R
Question 11
1 / 1 pts
Ethics is the only value area in which one can make normative judgments.
True
False
4LV 8Rt
Incorrect
Question 12
0 / 1 pts
According to Mr. OH there seem to be ___ purposes of morality.
2
3
4
5
REQ\\ document in Week One entitled "Purposes of Morality"
Question 13
1 / 1 pts
____ implies that each persons moral view is correct. relativism
utilitarianism
absolutism
all of these
4LV 30Rm
Incorrect
Question 14
0 / 1 pts
Emotivism denies that moral judgments are statements that can be true or false.
True
False
4LV 28Rt
Question 15
1 / 1 pts
Ethical Egoism
is a theory that holds we each ought to do what is in our
own best interest.
True
False
4th LV 71Rl; 78Lm
Incorrect
Question 16
0 / 1 pts
Normative ethics is descriptive in nature.
True
False
4LV 5R;3Lt
Incorrect
Question 17
0 / 1 pts
The ancient Greek philosopher who is regarded as the Father of Ethics was ___.
Euclid
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Plato
#1Saturday Signals
Question 18
1 / 1 pts
The opposite of relativism is ___ according to the textbook.
determinism
subjectivism
objectivism
emotionalism
4LV 20Ll; 31Lt
Question 19
1 / 1 pts
Science does not and cannot study ethics since it (ethics) is solely a matter of ones personal opinion, according to the textbook.
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