1728015
Description
Flashcards by Holly Berry, updated more than 1 year ago
|
Created by Holly Berry
over 9 years ago
|
|
| Question | Answer |
| _____ emphasize the highest good for the greatest number. | Utiliratians |
| _____ concluded that all of our knowledge comes from experience. | Locke |
| _____ asserted that reason lends to us certain clear and distinct, innate ideas. | Descartes |
| _____ _____ claim that pursuit of one's own interests is what constitutes the true good. | Ethical Egoists |
| ____ is the way of reason, asserting that at least some of our knowledge can be acquired apart from the senses. | Rationalism |
| _____ is the way of experience, explaining that all of our knowledge comes from experience. | Empiricism |
| _____ emphasized the categorical imperative as duty for duty's sake. | Kant |
| _____ assert that what is right in one place or time may be wrong in another. | Relativists |
| _____ say that there is but one eternally true and valid moral code for all. | Absolutists |
| _____ emphasized use of the happiness calculus to determine the total good of a choice. | Bentham |
| _____ is a powerful third party peacekeeper to establish and maintain order in society. | Leviathan |
| Locke and Rousseau's social contracts are _____. | based on the belief that all men are free and equal |
| Plato's idea of justice is _____. | based on a person performing his task |
| Aristotle's idea of justice is _____. | attempting to issue fairness between two parties |
| Locke allowed for probability or degrees of assent, thereby using _____ reasoning. | inductive |
| Bill is a Hedonist. Which of the following would Bill find to be intrinsically good? | Pleasure. |
| Aristotle argues that happiness is the ultimate end because _____. | all other ends are sought for the sake of happiness |
| (T or F) Descartes looked to mathematics as a model of the method to arrive at the truth. | True |
| Kant agreed with Hume that all our knowledge begins with and arises out of experience. | False. |
| Aristotle asserts that the state is _____ for the individual. | primary |
| The _____ _____ determines individual behavior based on what ought to be universal law. | categorical imperative |
| (T or F) Deontology is doing good in order to achieve some other, possibly greater, good. | False. |
| The teleological suspension of the ethical is a twist on the _____ _____. | Golden Rule |
| Protagoras said that "a man is a _____ of all _____." | measure; things |
| Locke rejected the notion of _____. | intuition |
| Marx was influenced by Hegel's _____ _____ in his formation of socialism. | dialectical materialism |
| Someone following Bentham's advice would have to take into account the intensity, duration and certainty or uncertainty of _____ or _____ resulting from an action | pleasure; pain |
| According to Berkeley, truth exists _____ the mind as an _____ reality. | in; internal |
| Hume believed causality was meaningless, due to lack of _____. | impression |
| _____ is the ability to think and decide for one's self. | Autonomy |
| For Plato, the guardian class rules the state out of the _____ of _____. | Virtue; courage |
| Ethical egoism asserts that one should pursue the _____ good of all men. | non-altruistic |
| _____ _____ claims that ethics is meaningless due to lack of empirical evidence. | Logical positivism |
| Kant would say that morality must be based on _____, not feelings. | reason |
| ______ purported that laws of nature are primary to human-created laws. | Aquinas |
| Bentham's principle of _____ says one should act always to promote the greatest good for the greatest number. | utility |
| According to Kant, for a man to be _____ he must believe in some universal moral code. | rational |
| Nietzsche said that "a tablet of _____ hangs over every people." | virtue |
| Rousseau said "Man is _____ free and everywhere he is in _____." | born; chains |
| Descartes' _____ _____ _____ is best translated to mean "I think, therefore I am." | cogito ergo sum |
| Kierkegaard illustrated true good in the faith-fueled actions of _____ in Genesis. | Abraham |
| Liebniz said our senses only serve as _____ of what we already know innately. | examples |
| Locke's concept of tabula rasa is best translated to mean "_____ _____." | blank slate |
| _____ is the immediate knowledge of something innate. | Intuition |
| According to Plato, knowledge is more _____ than learning something for the first time. | recalling |
| _____ ethics is recognizing how behavior ought to be rather than simply how it is. | Normative |
| _____, according to Aristotle, is the means between two extremes of an emotion or action. | Virtue |
| Ayn Rand states that _____ discourages us from fulfilling our greatest potential. | altruism |
| Natural law proponents like Aquinas believe morality comes from the _____. | divine |
| Plato's Republic claims that the _____ should be the ruler of the republic. | philosopher-king |
Want to create your own Flashcards for free with GoConqr? Learn more.