PHILOSOPHY 208 WEEK 5 QUIZ

PHILOSOPHY 208 WEEK 5 QUIZ Grading Summary These are the automatically computed results of your exam. Grades for essay questions, and comments from your instructor, are in the "Details" section below. Date Taken: 5/19/2017 Time Spent: 29 min , 19 secs Points Received: 20 / 20 (100%) Number of Attempts: 1 Question Type: # Of Questions: # Correct: Multiple Choice 20 20 Grade Details - All Questions Question 1.Question : What, according to Nel Noddings’ article “Maternal Ethics”, do male philosophers tend to say about death (as opposed to women)? Student Answer: Men are more brave in the face of death than women because of their natural courageousness Male philosophers often talk as though the world of reason and abstraction is superior to the physical world of the body Death tends to be harder on men due to their attachments to the glory of this world Women are more able to allow their faith in the afterlife Instructor Explanation: overcome their aversion to death The answer can be found on p. 219-220 of Nel Noddings’s “Maternal Ethics” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 2.Question : How have historians tended to treat typically male tendencies versus typically female tendencies, according to Nel Noddings in the article “Maternal Ethics”? Student Answer: Historians value female tendencies more highly because it is childbearing and childrearing that enable the group to survive Male tendencies, like mathematics, warfare, and even singing have been prized more highly by historians Historians have generally paid equal regard to both kinds of tendency. Historians value female tendencies more highly because most Instructor Explanation: historians have themselves been female The answer can be found on p. 215-216 of Nel Noddings’s “Maternal Ethics” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 3.Question : According to Gilligan, stages five and six of Kohlberg’s analysis of moral development involve Student Answer: an egocentric understanding of fairness shared conventions of societal agreement a disposition of emotional affectivity a logic of equality and reciprocity Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found on page 27 of Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 4.Question : In Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice, the example of Heinz involves which crime? Student Answer: murder theft arson racketeering Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found on pages 25 and 26 of Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 5.Question : What does Nel Noddings say about rates of violent crime among men and women, according to the article “Maternal Ethics”? Student Answer: Women commit nearly as much crime as men do; gender differences here are illusory Men commit far fewer violent crimes than women; our ignorance of this is due to the influence of media. There has never been a proven case of a woman committing a violent crime; all such crimes have been committed by men. By nature men are generally much more violence prone than Instructor Explanation: women The answer can be found on p. 213-214 of Nel Noddings’s “Maternal Ethics” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 6.Question : Feminist ethics is based around which of the following ideas, according to Virginia Held in “Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory”? Student Answer: That abstract universal principles can be applied to most situations to find the best action. That emotions can be cultivated and ought to be taken into account in ethical theory. That maximizing something like happiness or pleasure is the best way to guide action. That all humans are autonomous individuals who battle for Instructor Explanation: resources. The answer can be found in the section titled “Reason and Emotion” from Virginia Held’s article. Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 7.Question : What does Noddings say about women’s feelings about the death of the body, according to the article “Maternal Ethics”? Student Answer: Women know the preciousness of the body because they create them and care for them Women, more than anyone, just want to know that the soul of their child has gone to heaven Women are happy not to have to deal with the messiness of dead bodies Men tend to be more sensitive to the death of the body since Instructor Explanation: they are the ones that have to risk their own lives in war The answer can be found on p. 219-220 of Nel Noddings’s “Maternal Ethics” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 8.Question : According to Caroline Heldman, what is one way that men can contribute to overcoming the sexual objectification of women? Student Answer: they can be kind to women they can tell women that they are attractive they can stop evaluating women based on their looks they can stop seeking attention Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in the video “The Sexy Lie” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 9.Question : What does Nel Noddings have to say about essentialism about gender, according to the article “Maternal Ethics”? Student Answer: It is problematic because it has been associated with creation and because it has always favored males over females It is the clearly false view that men and women have essences It wrongly assumes that God could not have made us in ways that were contrary to our ‘essential nature’ Culture is irrelevant; all of our behaviors are innate Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found on p. 214 of Nel Noddings’s “Maternal Ethics” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 10.Question : According to Caroline Heldman, what product was pulled from Abercrombie and Fitch stores based on protests through a blog? Student Answer: padded swimsuit tops for toddlers lingerie deep V-neck t-shirts yoga pants Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in the video “The Sexy Lie” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 11. Question : According to Colin Stokes, which of the following are questions in the Bechdel test? Student Answer: Is there more than one female character? Do they speak to each other? When they speak to each other, do they talk about something other than a man? all of the above Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in the video “Colin Stokes: How Movies Teach Manhood” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 12.Question : What does Noddings say about male versus female language when opposing war in the article “Maternal Ethics”? Student Answer: Men are more likely to speak in the abstract about violence; women are more likely to refer to their own hands on experience in helping victims of violence Women are more likely to become emotional rather than rational when discussing such matters Women and men use approximately the same types of language when discussing the horror of death Women feel that language is irrelevant; it is actions that count Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found on p. 218-219 of Nel Noddings’s “Maternal Ethics” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 13.Question : According to Caroline Heldman, what is the name of being aware of one’s appearance in relation to position, light, who is watching, etc. ? Student Answer: self-awareness anorexia depression habitual body monitoring Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in the video “The Sexy Lie” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 14.Question : In “Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory”, Virginia Held claims that which abstract concept has guided the development of Western ethics? Student Answer: The feminist woman The child of love The man of reason The mother of care Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in the section titled “The History of Ethics” from Virginia Held’s article. Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 15.Question : In “Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory”, Virginia Held uses which example to talk about the political distinctions that separate men and women in the realms of the public and the private? Student Answer: a business man going out for cocktails a city planner developing a building a mother homeschooling her children a mother nursing her child Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in the section titled “The Public and the Private” from Virginia Held’s article. Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 16.Question : In the excerpt from In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan claims that females tend to see relationships as which of these? Student Answer: hierarchies rules webs duties Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found on page 62 of Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 17.Question : According to the the video “Prostitutes of God”, what is the name of the female goddess to which young girls are dedicated and then forced into prostitution in India? Student Answer: Yellamma Vishnu Krishna Lakshmi Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in the video “Prostitutes of God” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 18.Question : According to Colin Stokes, in which film are all the heroic, wise, and villainous characters female? Student Answer: The Wizard of Oz The Little Mermaid Star Wars Les Miserables Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in the video “Colin Stokes: How Movies Teach Manhood” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 19.Question : In Carol Gilligan’s example from In a Different Voice, the child named Amy focuses on which aspect of the Heinz dilemma? Student Answer: the relationships involved in the dilemma the logical nature of the problem a utilitarian calculus that weighs the options Kohlberg’s theory of moral development Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found on page 28 of Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 20.Question : According to Virginia Held’s article “Feminist Transformation of Moral Theory”, a thinker named Annette Baier claims that the history of Western ethical thought does not take into account feminine aspects because: Student Answer: The great moral theorists were often loving husbands. The great moral theorists hated women. The great moral theorists were men who had little intimate interaction with women. Oh, those great moral theorists! Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in the section titled “The History of Ethics” from Virginia Held’s article. Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: * Times are displayed in (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)