PHI 208 Week 3 Quiz

PHI 208 Week 3 Quiz Question 1 In the video “What Is Just War Theory?” Michael Walzer argues it is important to read the essays and memoir literature of soldiers because they make the toughest moral decisions on the battlefield they contain critical material regarding the actual experience of war moral arguments about war should ring true to Correct!Correct! all of the above The answer can be found between minutes 10:00-15:00 of the video “What is Just War Theory?” Question 2 A deontological theory of morality regards moral actions as: Correct!Correct! based on duty based on the best consequences proceeding from virtuous character relative to each person’s desires The answer can be found in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and **. Question 3 According to Kant in the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, suicide is: Moral if and only if one lives in a state or country where it is legal. Correct!Correct! Immoral because it involves treating one’s autonomous will merely as a means to the relief of suffering. Moral if and only if one does not have friends or family members that would be hurt by it. Immoral because it condemns one to eternal damnation. The answer can be found in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals page 29. Question 4 Kant’s theory of morality is best described as: Utilitarian Based on divine commands Relativistic Correct!Correct! Deontological The answer can be found in Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals