intro to philosophy unit 2
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1. Immanuel Kant revised Bentham’s ideas by arguing for the importance of differences
in the type, kind, or quality of pleasures and pains that follow from actions.
A. True
B. False
2. The most basic concept of Kant’s ethics is truth.
A. True
B. False
3. Kant calls his basic moral rule the categorical imperative.
A. True
B. False
4. The ultimate drawback to a teleological approach to ethics is that it allows for the
idea that “the ends justify the means.”
A. True
B. False
5. In a religious approach to ethics, faith and the authority of sacred texts have the fi nal
word.
A. True
B. False
6. If an action is legal, it is also morally right.
A. True
B. False
7. Jeremy Bentham writes, “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two
sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought
to do.”
A. True
B. False
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8. As Bentham and Mill are classic representatives of act-oriented ethics, so Immanuel
Kant created the model for results-oriented ethics.
A. True
B. False
9. Kant argues that a morally good action must have intrinsic worth.
A. True
B. False
10. Plato thinks that we are made up of three parts, physical, ________, and intellectual.
A. Spirited
B. Emotional
C. Truthful
D. Consciousnesses
11. Consider the case of a woman who is robbed and beaten. The robber escapes punishment.
Socrates would say__________ has been most hurt by this crime.
A. The woman
B. The robber
12. Socrates illustrates his ideas about the ethical life and the unethical life with the image
of two wine jars.
A. True
B. False
13. In the Platonic dialogue entitled the Gorgias, the character Callicles argues that best
life is one of the uncontrolled and totally self-interested pursuit of pleasure.
A. True
B. False
14. Plato believes that in the unhealthy soul there is an inappropriate balance among the
three parts.
A. True
B. False
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15. Socrates thinks that wrongdoing “is in every way harmful and shameful to the wrongdoer.”
A. True
B. False
16. Socrates thinks that unethical actions have no effect on our ability to act virtuously.
A. True
B. False
17. When Socrates says that, “the unexamined life is not worth living,” he is recommending
one way to avoid the harm that can come from acting unethically.
A. True
B. False
18. Socrates probably sees the non-cognitive effects of vice as involving loss of the mind’s
ability to argue forcefully for the value of the ethical life.
A. True
B. False
19. The notion of a social contract argues that the citizens of a society freely enter into an
agreement to abide by that society’s laws and therefore are obligated to do so.
A. True
B. False
20. The fi rst working democracy in the world was in the ancient Greek city of___________.
A. Athens
B. Santorini
C. Rhodes
D. Ios
21. John Locke’s idea of formal consent, claims that an informal and unspoken agreement
is suffi cient to constitute being bound by the terms of a particular social contract.
A. True
B. False
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22. Strictly speaking, the type of government that Plato recommends is an democracy.
A. True
B. False
23. Plato thinks that the only kind of government worse than democracy is tyranny.
A. True
B. False
24. Skinner’s society, Walden Two, is primarily an agricultural community.
A. True
B. False
25. The kind of government that Plato recommends in his ideal society is a religious government.
A. True
B. False
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