PHI2604 CRITICAL THINKING/ETHICS MIDTERM | PHI 2604 Ethics - MIDTERM
PHI 2604 Ethics - MIDTERM Which of these best describes the purpose of the book's discussion of ethics and religion? Which of the following is the overall point of the author's discussion of "doing ethics"? What is a major difference between descriptive ethics and normative ethics? Which statement best summarizes why, according to the author, cultural relativism is nearly impossible to use? Suppose I think that I sometimes make mistakes on moral matters, and so does my culture. Acknowledging this, I say, "My moral beliefs are sometimes wrong and sometimes my culture's moral principles are wrong as well." On which view could my statement be true? Which statement is a consequence of objectivism? What is the implicit premise in the following moral argument? If Chanté maintains that killing the innocent is wrong because the action is contrary to God's will, she probably accepts the A traditional natural law theorist would say that lying is immoral because it According to Kant, the principle and the maxims derived from the categorical imperative are According to ethical egoism, the morally right action is the one that produces the most favorable balance of good over evil for oneself. Which of these evaluations is most appropriate? A major reason for devising a moral theory is to obtain practical guidance Suppose a utilitarian judge decides to rule against a plaintiff in a lawsuit just because people in general would be happier if the plaintiff lost the case. Such a utilitarian move would conflict with commonsense views about justice. Commonsense morality makes a distinction between doing our duty and doing more than duty requires, what are called supererogatory actions. This distinction seems to disappear in Psychological egoism is a moral theory. T or F Applying the first formulation of the categorical imperative to the act of lying to a friend would show that the action is impermissible because the action's maxim cannot be universalized. Suppose a ninety-year-old man is dying of cancer and is in excruciating pain that no medicine can relieve. He asks to be given a lethal injection. According to the doctrine of double effect, giving the injection is not morally permissible. T or F A pregnant woman has cancer and will die unless she receives chemotherapy to destroy the tumors. If she takes the chemotherapy to destroy the tumors, the fetus will die. According to the doctrine of double effect, it is not morally permissible for her to do so. T or F Applying the second formulation of the categorical imperative to the act of lying to a friend on Contemporary virtue ethicists argue that if virtues were eliminated entirely from morality, leaving only principles or rules of justice, the moral life would appear Suppose you are seriously ill and laid up in the hospital. If a friend came to visit you only because it was her duty to do so (duty was her only motivation), you would likely view her action as heartfelt and genuine. T or F In pointing out the shortcomings of rule-based ethical theories, the philosopher William Frankena says that principles without virtues are Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of ideal theories of ethics that feminist thinkers have criticized? Suppose a Kantian says that we are never morally permitted to lie. An ethicist of care would All feminist ethicists reject the traditional role played by principles in moral reasoning. T or F Franco has decided he wants to adopt the ethics of care. He is now deliberating about whether to voice a controversial view during a get-together with his family. In order to apply the ethics of care, he should focus more on how Parents who argue that aborting female fetuses prevents economic harm to the family, and should be allowed, would be using a(n) ________ argument. With the violinist scenario, Judith Jarvis Thomson tries to show that Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion may sometimes be permissible whether or not the fetus is a person. T or F Some conservatives have argued that the fetus becomes a human being at conception because it receives the human genetic code at that point. T or F According to Mary Anne Warren's criteria for personhood, a self-motivated space alien that was conscious, able to reason and communicate, and was self-aware would be If you believe that there is no moral difference between killing someone and letting someone die, you might reason that In 2002, the eighty-six-year-old war hero Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Jr., in a suicide pact with his eighty-nine-year-old wife, ended his life with an overdose of sleeping pills. According to a news report, "Having lost 30 pounds from a stomach disorder, suffering from congestive heart failure and in constant back pain, the admiral had been determined to dictate the hour of his death. His wife, who suffered from osteoporosis so severe her bones were breaking, had gone blind. She had no desire to live without her husband." Assuming this is an accurate account of Admiral Nimitz's motivations, to what moral principle did he appeal to justify taking his own life? If you were an American physician who accepted the active-passive distinction, you would also likely believe that, whereas euthanasia is always wrong, in some cases physician-assisted suicide may be permissible. T or F According to the doctrine of double effect, a doctor's giving a dying, pain-racked patient a large dose of morphine with the intention of easing her pain (while knowing the act has the side effect of expediting her death) is permissible. T or F The idea behind ________ is that in any society, morality demands that people receive what they are due (what is fair). Theories of justice that hold that people are entitled only to what they can freely acquire through their own legitimate efforts in a free market are called ________ theories. Libertarians believe that, while people have a right not to be interfered with in their pursuit of health care, no member of that society has a right to demand any share of health care from that society, no matter how rich that society may be. T or F
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- 14 décembre 2021
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phi 2604 ethics midterm
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which of these best describes the purpose of the books discussion of ethics and religion
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which of the following is the overall point of
