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COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS
◉ If you are offended and experience revulsion at my eating veal, and I
am horrified and repulsed by your eating tofu, or by touching it, is that
adequate evidence that either eating veal or tofu is immoral?
a. Revulsion or being offended, even merely in terms of etiquette, is the
same as morality.
b. Revulsion alone at someone else's action is not sufficient evidence
that it is harmful or immoral.
c. Eating veal is immoral, which anyone can tell from looking at a baby
cow, and so the mere feeling of revulsion is enough to make a moral
judgment.
d. Eating tofu is obviously morally neutral, so I don't have to ask about
harm or good. Answer: b. Revulsion alone at someone else's action is
not sufficient evidence that it is harmful or immoral.
◉ Philosophical ethics
a. examines ethics from a religious standpoint.
b. examines ethics from a psychological standpoint.
c. examines ethics from a critical or evaluative standpoint.
d. examines ethics from a historical and sociological standpoint.
Answer: c. examines ethics from a critical or evaluative standpoint.
, ◉ Epistemology, important in constructing good ethical arguments, is
the branch of philosophy dealing with
a. how we know anything.
b. the constraint of scientific technologies.
c. none of these choices.
d. religion. Answer: a. how we know anything.
◉ The primary objective of normative ethics is to determine
a. what people mean by the words "good, " "bad, " "right, " "wrong, "
and "just."
b. what religion requires people to do by commandment or revelation.
c. what people actually do and what differing social and cultural ethical
norms exist.
d. what action or choice is good, bad, right, wrong, or what we really
ought to do. Answer: d. what action or choice is good, bad, right, wrong,
or what we really ought to do.
◉ When doing metaethics we
a. analyze the meaning of moral language.
b. separate ethics from religion.
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
ANSWERS
◉ If you are offended and experience revulsion at my eating veal, and I
am horrified and repulsed by your eating tofu, or by touching it, is that
adequate evidence that either eating veal or tofu is immoral?
a. Revulsion or being offended, even merely in terms of etiquette, is the
same as morality.
b. Revulsion alone at someone else's action is not sufficient evidence
that it is harmful or immoral.
c. Eating veal is immoral, which anyone can tell from looking at a baby
cow, and so the mere feeling of revulsion is enough to make a moral
judgment.
d. Eating tofu is obviously morally neutral, so I don't have to ask about
harm or good. Answer: b. Revulsion alone at someone else's action is
not sufficient evidence that it is harmful or immoral.
◉ Philosophical ethics
a. examines ethics from a religious standpoint.
b. examines ethics from a psychological standpoint.
c. examines ethics from a critical or evaluative standpoint.
d. examines ethics from a historical and sociological standpoint.
Answer: c. examines ethics from a critical or evaluative standpoint.
, ◉ Epistemology, important in constructing good ethical arguments, is
the branch of philosophy dealing with
a. how we know anything.
b. the constraint of scientific technologies.
c. none of these choices.
d. religion. Answer: a. how we know anything.
◉ The primary objective of normative ethics is to determine
a. what people mean by the words "good, " "bad, " "right, " "wrong, "
and "just."
b. what religion requires people to do by commandment or revelation.
c. what people actually do and what differing social and cultural ethical
norms exist.
d. what action or choice is good, bad, right, wrong, or what we really
ought to do. Answer: d. what action or choice is good, bad, right, wrong,
or what we really ought to do.
◉ When doing metaethics we
a. analyze the meaning of moral language.
b. separate ethics from religion.
