Phil 106 Midterm Exam Questions &
Correct Answers
Unhappiness as a symptom objection ✔️✔️You can be harmed by something even if it does
not make you sad.
Life's trajectory objection ✔️✔️Life B and Life A have to be equally good since they have the
same total happiness.
Desire-Satisfaction Theory ✔️✔️Your life goes well to the extent that you get what you want.
Advantages of the Desire-Satisfaction Theory ✔️✔️There are a variety of good lives, the
individual gets to determine what makes their life go well, it does not have trouble explaining
what is good for us.
Objective list theory ✔️✔️A list of things that show what are good for a person, whether or not
they satisfy that a person's desires.
Meaningful life ✔️✔️If we can find meaning in our life.
Life meaning for someone ✔️✔️Our desires.
, Counterexamples to desire satisfaction thesis ✔️✔️Eating food that is very bad for you.
Counterexample to non-satisfaction thesis ✔️✔️Eating healthy food.
Jean Kazez's objective goods ✔️✔️Happiness, autonomy, self-expression, morality, progress.
Divine Command Theory ✔️✔️Actions are morally just because they are commanded by God
and bad if they are forbidden by God.
Attractiveness of Divine Command Theory ✔️✔️Consistent with religious views, if God made
everything why not morality, every law must have a law giver, God is perfect.
Euthyphro Argument against DCT ✔️✔️Either God has reasons or he doesn't, Either God is
imperfect or DCT is false.
Divine Perfection Argument against DCT ✔️✔️It would be possible to create a reality where it
is moral to kill and torture.
Natural Law Theory ✔️✔️Actions are right because they are natural and actions are wrong if
they are unnatural.
Psychological Egoism ✔️✔️All human actions are ultimately motivated by self-interest.
Correct Answers
Unhappiness as a symptom objection ✔️✔️You can be harmed by something even if it does
not make you sad.
Life's trajectory objection ✔️✔️Life B and Life A have to be equally good since they have the
same total happiness.
Desire-Satisfaction Theory ✔️✔️Your life goes well to the extent that you get what you want.
Advantages of the Desire-Satisfaction Theory ✔️✔️There are a variety of good lives, the
individual gets to determine what makes their life go well, it does not have trouble explaining
what is good for us.
Objective list theory ✔️✔️A list of things that show what are good for a person, whether or not
they satisfy that a person's desires.
Meaningful life ✔️✔️If we can find meaning in our life.
Life meaning for someone ✔️✔️Our desires.
, Counterexamples to desire satisfaction thesis ✔️✔️Eating food that is very bad for you.
Counterexample to non-satisfaction thesis ✔️✔️Eating healthy food.
Jean Kazez's objective goods ✔️✔️Happiness, autonomy, self-expression, morality, progress.
Divine Command Theory ✔️✔️Actions are morally just because they are commanded by God
and bad if they are forbidden by God.
Attractiveness of Divine Command Theory ✔️✔️Consistent with religious views, if God made
everything why not morality, every law must have a law giver, God is perfect.
Euthyphro Argument against DCT ✔️✔️Either God has reasons or he doesn't, Either God is
imperfect or DCT is false.
Divine Perfection Argument against DCT ✔️✔️It would be possible to create a reality where it
is moral to kill and torture.
Natural Law Theory ✔️✔️Actions are right because they are natural and actions are wrong if
they are unnatural.
Psychological Egoism ✔️✔️All human actions are ultimately motivated by self-interest.
