PHIL 102 Module 5 Quiz / Philosophy M05 quiz (answered)
Philosophy M05 quiz 1. Both Peter Singer and Jeremy Bentham told that utilitarian calculations must take into account the pleasure and pain of all sentient creatures. True/false 2. Virtually everyone thinks that being cruel to animals-unnecessarily causing the pain or misery-is 3. Mary Anne Warren says that human lives have greater intrinsic value than animal lives because human lives are worth more to their possessors. True/false 4. Are moral common sense suggest that accidentally running over a man with her car is morally worse than doing the same to a rabbit. Tom Regan would 5. It was the philosopher Thomas Aquinas who said, " it is no wrong for a man to make use of [animals], either by killing them or in any other way whatever." True/false 6. Suppose your friend is an animal rights advocate for the same reason that Peter Singer is (utilitarian calculations). She thinks our system of meat production should be abolished, but by her own lights, or utilitarianism could sanction 7. In 2015 and 2016 in the United States alone, more than 18 billion animals, including cows, pigs, sheep, and lambs, were slaughtered for food. True/false 8. Tom Regan argues that humans are experiencing subjects of a life; nonhuman animals (normal, fully developed mammals) are non-experiencing subjects of a life. True/false 9. In Britain, Thousands have protested for and against scientific animal testing, with each side trying to make it cause in the streets and in the media. What plausible utilitarian argument could scientists and others make in favor of the testing? 10. Suppose you believe it would be just as wrong to hurt, eat, cage, or hunt in animal as it would be to do the same to a human. What Siri could you use to justify your belief? 11. The traditional attitude towards animals is that 12. They claim that animals have no moral standing because they do not have the kind of strong family relationships exhibited by humans have been undermined by 13. Suppose you are the last human on a dead planet. Only one other living thing exists-a maple tree. You are preparing to leave the planet for good, and you were debating with yourself about whether you should kill the tree before departing. In the end, you decide it would be morally impermissible to kill the tree. Your reluctance to kill the tree shows that the tree has 14. Which anthropocentric philosopher said, "animals ... are there merely as a means to an end. That end means man"? 15. If you were species nonegalitarian, you would likely believe that 16. Suppose environmentalist want to prevent the disappearance of glaciers in glacier national Park, which are melting away an alarming rate. When report claims that slowing global warming can help prevent the melting, which would be accomplished by creating better fuel efficiency for cars and stronger Energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances. Laws passed to implement these higher standards would necessarily reflect a belief that glaciers of moral status. True/false 17. The ecological individualist insist that we must take into consideration the interest of human beings only. True/false 18. The difficulty underlying the moral dilemma of climate change boils down to what obligations, if any, we have to future generations. 19. In disputes about environmental issues, often there's a substantial agreement on the Non-moral facts and serious divergence on 20. Those who believe that nature possesses instrumental value only are likely to believe that a force has value only because of its economic worth. True/false 21. The anthropocentrist necessarily has no regard for the environment. True/false 22. Something with intrinsic value is valuable 23. The controversy over the ivory billed woodpecker has pitted those who want to build a massive irrigation project against environmentalist who want to stop the project to protect the wood pecker and other species. Biocentric species egalitarian would probably insist that the 24. Twosome, the fact that we value the beauty of Niagara Falls shows that we 25. A counter example to biocentric egalitarianism is that we
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both peter singer and jeremy bentham told that utilitarian calculations must take into account the pleasure and pain of all sentient creatures tru
