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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is ethical naturalism
The belief moral terms are real
the belief moral terms are knowable
the belief moral terms are reducible to natural terms
the belief moral terms are naturally intuited
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is ethical non-naturalism?
The view that ethical terms are non-natural beliefs
The view that ethical terms are special non-natural properties
The view moral terms are facts
The view moral terms are knowable
- 3. Multiple Choice
Complete the gap: Intuitionism is a form of ethical non-naturalism that claims that some of our moral judgements are ...... yet self-evident.
synthetic
analytic
matters of fact
relations of ideas
- 4. Multiple Choice
What does Uism reduce 'good' to?
pain
pleasure
utility
the majority
- 5. Multiple Choice
What does virtue ethics reduce 'good' to?
rationality
duty
happiness
flourishing
- 6. Multiple Choice
what natural property is key to both VE and Kant?
happiness
emotion
rationality
mechanicalism
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following believes that morality comes from an internal God-given moral sense
Francis Hutchinson
Francis Bacon
Karl Hutchinson
Karl Bacon
- 8. Multiple Choice
What does Hobbes say all humans naturally want?
money
fame
appreciation
to survive
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which philosopher agrees withConsequentialist intuitionism?
Pritchard
Ross
Kant
Moore
- 10. Multiple Choice
Complete the gap: Goodness for Moore was a simple, ..... property which cannot be defined in terms of anything else.
understood
unanalysable
unfathomable
undervalued
- 11. Multiple Choice
Moore believes he that although he believes moral properties are incapable of proof, can say nothing about...
their origin
how we come to know them
their value
how we should apply them
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To what does Moore compare 'good' to show that we know it when we see it but we cannot define it.
love
happiness
yellow
tension
- 13. Multiple Choice
Ultimately, Moore believes moral worth is determined by
positive consequences
society
negative conseqiences
rulers
- 14. Multiple Choice
Who, in opposition to Pritchard, argued that maths is nothing like morality?
Kant
Bentham
Hudson
McBain
- 15. Multiple Choice
What mistake does Pritchard believe moral philosophy often makes
beleiving moral terms are real
believing we can prove why something is our duty
believing moral terms are meaningful
believing objective moral properties can be discovered
- 16. Multiple Choice
Complete this quote from Pritchard: Our intuition that something is our duty is “immediate, in precisely the same sense in which a ................... apprehension is immediate
scientific
mathematical
theological
mystical
- 17. Multiple Choice
Because of his desire to bring about ideal goods, what do some philsophers term Moore as being?
An ideal virtue ethisist
an ideal Kantian
an ideal natural law theorist
an ideal utilitarian
- 18. Multiple Choice
What is Warnock's main objection to non-naturalism?
it avoids defining what ethical judgments are.
it misunderstands that ethical terms are not objective
it reduces belief in God
it avoids the issue of whether happiness is intrinsically good
- 19. Multiple Choice
Why, according to Warnock, can non-naturalism not help us come to a consensus on what 'right' and 'wrong' mean in reality?
because it argues morality is subjective
because it argued morality is not knowable
because it argues morality is 'self evident'
because it argues we have no duties
- 20. Multiple Choice
What does Ross call duties which are self evident to us?
First level duties
prima facie duties
self evident duties
sunum duties
- 21. Multiple Choice
Hume was an emotivist
True
False
- 22. Multiple Choice
Ayer acknowledges moral judgments do look as if they have meaning and can be analysed. But this is a trick of our language and therefore ethical concepts are...
Lies
double agents
ghosts
pseudo concepts
- 23. Multiple Choice
What does Stephenson mean when he says ethical terms have a 'magnetism'?
They express feelings
They prescribe behaviour
They try to persuade others
- 24. Multiple Choice
According to Hare, moral imperatives are...
absolute and unconditional
prescribing behaviour to others
unimportant
based on logic
- 25. Multiple Choice
If non-moral and moral principles clash which should take precedence according to Hare?
non-moral
moral
either, it doesn't matter
they can't clash
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