PHI 115 Exam 1 2025 update Question
and answers correctly solved 2025
According to Christopher Phillips, the Socratic Method "compels us to explore
alternative perspectives, asking what must be said for or against each". -
correct answer ✔True
All norms are moral norms. - correct answer ✔False
Assume that human life is intrinsically valuable. Which of these conclusions is
BEST supported by that assumption? - correct answer ✔Whatever helps
humans stay alive is instrumentally valuable.
Many great religious thinkers have relied on reason to understand the truths of
morality. - correct answer ✔True
The principle of universalizability demands that a moral statement that applies
to one situation must apply in - correct answer ✔all other situations that are
relevantly similar.
Which of the following BEST summarizes the Euthyphro dilemma that
Socrates raises for divine command theory? - correct answer ✔Either
actions are morally right because God wills them to be so, or God commands
actions because they are right, and both options lead to problems for divine
command theory.
There are never any good reasons for treating someone differently from the
way we treat others. - correct answer ✔False
,Feelings do not play an important role in our moral experience. - correct
answer ✔False
What does it mean if something is instrumentally valuable? - correct answer
✔It is a means to obtaining something intrinsically valuable
Religious moral codes typically provide clear and direct answers to all moral
questions. - correct answer ✔False
Which field studies the moral principles, rules, or theories that guide our
actions and judgments? - correct answer ✔normative ethics
What is descriptive ethics? - correct answer ✔the scientific study of moral
beliefs and practices
Ethics, or moral philosophy, is - correct answer ✔the philosophical study of
topics such as right and wrong, good and bad
Which of the following is a reason that religious believers need to do ethics? -
correct answer ✔Religious rules of conduct sometimes conflict with each
other or with our beliefs.
Which of the following statements BEST summarizes what the author
describes as important features of ethics? - correct answer ✔Ethics requires
that we be able to give good reasons for our judgments, especially when we
judge that two people should be treated differently.
Which field would study the following question: "What does it mean for an
action to be wrong?" - correct answer ✔metaethics
, Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the disadvantages of
trying to avoid doing ethics? - correct answer ✔You will not really be in
control of your own choices, and you will run a risk of being lost if your moral
beliefs do not answer certain questions.
All major religious thinkers have accepted the divine command theory. -
correct answer ✔False
What is the dominance of moral norms? - correct answer ✔that moral norms
override nonmoral norms when there is a conflict
Which of the following is required by the principle of impartiality? - correct
answer ✔to justify any discriminatory treatment by providing morally relevant
differences
If I say that violence is never morally permissible, and you say that violence is
sometimes morally permissible, then which statement is true according to
subjective relativism? - correct answer ✔We are not having a moral
disagreement.
An emotivist would call a moral disagreement about abortion - correct answer
✔a disagreement in attitude.
Nothing is truly good or bad, according to emotivists. - correct answer ✔True
Even if the basic argument for cultural relativism fails, it is an appealing
doctrine to many people because - correct answer ✔it seems to promote
tolerance toward other cultures
and answers correctly solved 2025
According to Christopher Phillips, the Socratic Method "compels us to explore
alternative perspectives, asking what must be said for or against each". -
correct answer ✔True
All norms are moral norms. - correct answer ✔False
Assume that human life is intrinsically valuable. Which of these conclusions is
BEST supported by that assumption? - correct answer ✔Whatever helps
humans stay alive is instrumentally valuable.
Many great religious thinkers have relied on reason to understand the truths of
morality. - correct answer ✔True
The principle of universalizability demands that a moral statement that applies
to one situation must apply in - correct answer ✔all other situations that are
relevantly similar.
Which of the following BEST summarizes the Euthyphro dilemma that
Socrates raises for divine command theory? - correct answer ✔Either
actions are morally right because God wills them to be so, or God commands
actions because they are right, and both options lead to problems for divine
command theory.
There are never any good reasons for treating someone differently from the
way we treat others. - correct answer ✔False
,Feelings do not play an important role in our moral experience. - correct
answer ✔False
What does it mean if something is instrumentally valuable? - correct answer
✔It is a means to obtaining something intrinsically valuable
Religious moral codes typically provide clear and direct answers to all moral
questions. - correct answer ✔False
Which field studies the moral principles, rules, or theories that guide our
actions and judgments? - correct answer ✔normative ethics
What is descriptive ethics? - correct answer ✔the scientific study of moral
beliefs and practices
Ethics, or moral philosophy, is - correct answer ✔the philosophical study of
topics such as right and wrong, good and bad
Which of the following is a reason that religious believers need to do ethics? -
correct answer ✔Religious rules of conduct sometimes conflict with each
other or with our beliefs.
Which of the following statements BEST summarizes what the author
describes as important features of ethics? - correct answer ✔Ethics requires
that we be able to give good reasons for our judgments, especially when we
judge that two people should be treated differently.
Which field would study the following question: "What does it mean for an
action to be wrong?" - correct answer ✔metaethics
, Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the disadvantages of
trying to avoid doing ethics? - correct answer ✔You will not really be in
control of your own choices, and you will run a risk of being lost if your moral
beliefs do not answer certain questions.
All major religious thinkers have accepted the divine command theory. -
correct answer ✔False
What is the dominance of moral norms? - correct answer ✔that moral norms
override nonmoral norms when there is a conflict
Which of the following is required by the principle of impartiality? - correct
answer ✔to justify any discriminatory treatment by providing morally relevant
differences
If I say that violence is never morally permissible, and you say that violence is
sometimes morally permissible, then which statement is true according to
subjective relativism? - correct answer ✔We are not having a moral
disagreement.
An emotivist would call a moral disagreement about abortion - correct answer
✔a disagreement in attitude.
Nothing is truly good or bad, according to emotivists. - correct answer ✔True
Even if the basic argument for cultural relativism fails, it is an appealing
doctrine to many people because - correct answer ✔it seems to promote
tolerance toward other cultures
