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Ethics Exam 4

Question 1 of 40

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Which of the following is NOT a formulation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative?

Select one of the following:

  • The greatest happiness formulation

  • The universal law formulation

  • The formula of humanity

  • All of the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 2 of 40

1

The role of reason, according to Kant, is

Select one of the following:

  • To find the means to happiness

  • To find the means to pleasure

  • To serve the passions

  • To perfect a goodwill

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 3 of 40

1

According to Kant, it is not the _ the action, but, rather, the _ the action that determines the rightness or wrongness of an action

Select one of the following:

  • Intention behind - happiness produced

  • Pleasure produced - happiness produced

  • Consequences of - intention behind

  • Intention behind - consequences of

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 4 of 40

1

According to Singer, eating the meat of non-human animals would be morally justifiable if

Select one of the following:

  • Animals would consent to it

  • Doing so would result in more pleasure and less pain than not doing so

  • Doing so was in line with the categorical imperative

  • All of the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 5 of 40

1

The moral law, according to Kant, is

Select one of the following:

  • The law of reason

  • The categorical imperative

  • The law that rational beings freely give to themselves

  • All of the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 6 of 40

1

Because desert is central to Kant’s retributivist justification of punishment, he argues that punishment must always be __ the crime

Select one of the following:

  • Harsher than

  • Indifferent to

  • Proportional to

  • All of the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 7 of 40

1

According to the first formulation of the categorical imperative (the universal law formulation)

Select one of the following:

  • We should try to maximize happiness

  • We should always treat people as ends in themselves

  • Never treat people as mere means

  • Never act on maxims that cannot be accepted by all rat agents

  • B and c

Explanation

Question 8 of 40

1

Which of the following labels is appropriate for Kant’s moral philosophy?

Select one of the following:

  • Utilitatian

  • Teleological

  • Consequentialist

  • Empiricist

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 9 of 40

1

According to Kant, freedom is

Select one of the following:

  • The ability to satisfy one’s desires

  • The ability to maximize happiness

  • Just another word for “nothing left to lose”

  • The ability to act for the sake of the moral law

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 10 of 40

1

According to Singer, the principle of equality requires

Select one of the following:

  • Treating people as ends in themselves

  • Never treating people as mere means

  • Equal treatment for all members of the moral community

  • Never discounting arbitrarily the interests of any members of the moral community

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 11 of 40

1

Kant’s moral theory is

Select one of the following:

  • utilitarian

  • empirical

  • deontological

  • consequentialist

  • Teleological

Explanation

Question 12 of 40

1

Speciesism is

Select one of the following:

  • A version of utilitarianism that says we should maximize good for one species

  • A version of deontology that says only members of one species can act rationally

  • A version of virtue ethics that says only members of our species can be virtuous

  • A prejudice or attitude of bias toward the interests of the members of one’s own species

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 13 of 40

1

The moral law is different from the law of nature, according to Kant, is that

Select one of the following:

  • The moral law only applies to rational beings

  • The moral law is a law that we feely give to ourselves

  • The moral law is a law we can freely choose to act on

  • All of the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 14 of 40

1

We determine the intention with which a person acts by specifying __

Select one of the following:

  • The maxim for which s/he acted

  • The consequences of the action

  • The person's character

  • All of the above

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 15 of 40

1

Duties whose conditions of application are discretionary are called

Select one of the following:

  • Indirect

  • Indiscrete

  • Immoral

  • Imperfect

  • None of above

Explanation

Question 16 of 40

1

According to Kant things can be used as mere means to our ends, but people can't because

Select one of the following:

  • People are ineffective means to one’s ends

  • When people find out they have been used in this way they'll do the same to use

  • Unlike things, people have dignity

  • People are not that gullible

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 17 of 40

1

An imperfect duty can be derived from Kant’s first formulation of the Categorical Imperative (universal law formation) by showing that

Select one of the following:

  • The action in question treats a person as a mere means

  • The action in question fails to treat people as ends in themselves

  • The maxim of the action generates a contradiction in conception when we attempt to universalize it

  • The maxim of the action generates a contradiction in will when we attempt to universalize it

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 18 of 40

1

Which of the following descriptions of being motivated to do charity work does NOT reveal that an agent has a goodwill, according to Kant

Select one of the following:

  • Being motivated to do charity work for the sake of duty

  • Being motivated to do charity work out of respect for the moral law

  • Being motivated to do charity work because of a natural inclination to help people

  • Being motivated to do charity work from reason alone

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 19 of 40

1

A hypothetical imperative is

Select one of the following:

  • A dictate of reason

  • Only binding on us if we have certain ends

  • Binding on all rational agents regardless of their particular ends

  • A and b

  • A and c

Explanation

Question 20 of 40

1

A categorical imperative is

Select one of the following:

  • A dictate of reason

  • Only binding on us if we have certain ends

  • Binding on all rational agents regardless of their particular ends

  • A and b

  • A and c

Explanation

Question 21 of 40

1

All beings with interests are members of the moral community, according to Singer. And, he argues that the basic requirement for having interests is

Select one of the following:

  • rationality

  • sentience

  • virtue

  • Being human

  • Speaking a language

Explanation

Question 22 of 40

1

Prohibitions (or restrictions) on acting in certain ways regardless of the consequences (good or bad) are called

Select one of the following:

  • Indirect duties

  • Utilitarian calculations

  • Imperfect duties

  • Hypothetical imperatives

  • Deontological constraints

Explanation

Question 23 of 40

1

According to Kant, actions that have moral worth

Select one of the following:

  • Maximize happiness

  • Are motivated by respect for the moral law

  • Reveal a good will

  • All of the above

  • B and a

Explanation

Question 24 of 40

1

Which of the following is NOT a utilitarian justification for the social/legal practice of punishment?

Select one of the following:

  • It deters would be criminal from com crime

  • It gives criminals what they deserve

  • Provides comfort to victims and their families/friends

  • It rehabilitates certain criminal

  • Protects society from dangerous criminals

Explanation

Question 25 of 40

1

According to Kant, acting morally is not about aiming at some independently specificable good or goal (eg happ understood as pleaser and the absences of pain) but rather a matter of respecting our duties as rational being. This is another way of saying that Kant’s moral theory is ___ but rather ___.

Select one of the following:

  • Empiricist - rationalist

  • Consequentialist - intentionalist

  • Teleological - deontological

  • Utilitarian - virtue ethical

  • None of the above

Explanation

Question 26 of 40

1

According to Kant, an attempt to universalize the maxim “making a lying promise to get out of financial difficulty” leads to a contradiction in conception

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 27 of 40

1

The goodwill, according to Kant, is the only thing good without qualification

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 40

1

Kant agrees with Hume that the only source of motivation is natural inclination

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 29 of 40

1

According to Kant, we determine the rightness or wrongness of an action by appealing to empirical evidence (experience)

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 30 of 40

1

According to Kant, being free is being able to satisfy all your wants (natural inclinations)

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 31 of 40

1

Kant’s second formula of the Categorical Imperative (the formulation of humanity) yields a perfect duty not to perform a given action if performing that action would be to treat people as a mere means

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 32 of 40

1

Kant argues that our intentions in acting are irrelevant in determining whether or not our actions are right or wrong

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 33 of 40

1

All beings that are sentient have interests and therefore are members of the MC, according to Singer

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 34 of 40

1

According to Kant, only rational being are members of the MC

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 35 of 40

1

According to Kant, it is never morally acceptable to treat a person as a mere means, even if overall happiness would be increased

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 36 of 40

1

Singer argues in favor of the view that it is never justified to perform experiments on animals

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 37 of 40

1

According to Kant, respect for the moral law is a kind of natural inclination

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 38 of 40

1

According to Kant, non-human animals are members of the MC and we therefore have a direct duty not to mistreat them

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 39 of 40

1

The moral law is binding on all rational being regardless of what their particular ends are

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 40 of 40

1

Only geniuses can figure out what the moral law requires of us, according to Kant

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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