Philosophy -- Exercise #1

Please, state your full name. Answer all questions using the scantron sheets distributed in class. (if you do not have such a scantron, answer all questions on this sheet). Save a copy for your file

1) Following a standard philosophical practice, Stefan uses the words ethics and morality interchangeably
A) TRUE; B) FALSE

2) Moral judgments are
A) normative; B) purely descriptive; C) neither

3) To say that a judgment is normative entails that this judgments
A) descrbes facts, tells us how things are
B) prescribes something, tells us how thing ought to be (and what we ought to do)

4)  "People have abortions " is a normative judgment
A) TRUE; B) FALSE

5)  "Under certain circumstances it is wrong to have an abortions " is a normative judgment
A) TRUE; B) FALSE

6) According to the lectures, Feldman and Shaw, there are many different kinds of normative judgments and many different kinds of normative systems
A) TRUE; B) FALSE

7) According to the lectures and Shaw, law is one of many normative systems.
A) TRUE; B) FALSE

8) Feldman accepts the following definition of morality: (M1) An English sentence expresses a moral judgment if and only if it contains a value term.
A) TRUE; B) FALSE

9) According to M1, the following is not a moral judgment:
A) Abortion is always wrong.
B) Under certain circumstances, suicide is right.
C) Torturing babies is bad.
D) Torturing babies is boring.
E) they are all moral judgments.

10) According to M1, the following is a moral judgment:
A) My telephone is black.
B) Corpus Christi is south of Austin
C) Everybody loves somebody sometime.
D) The acting was good, but the lighting was bad.

11) Feldman accepts the following definition of morality: (M2) An English sentence expresses a moral judgment if and only if it is about some moral issue.
A) TRUE; B) FALSE

12) According to M2, the following would count as a moral judgments:
A) Abortion is illegal in some places.
B) Suicide occurs more frequently during economic depressions.
C) People sometimes request euthanasia for themselves.
D) Vigorous sexual activity can be good exercise.
E) they would all count as moral judgments

13) Feldman accepts the following definition of morality: M3: An English sentence expresses a moral judgment for a society if and only if (i) it is about a moral custom of that society, and (ii) it contains a value term. .A) TRUE; B) FALSE

14) Shaw maintains that all moral judgments
A) deal with issues related to human welfare
B) are especially important
C) if they are valid, they are supported by good reasons
E) all of the above

15) Stef agreed with Shaw that all moral judgments
A) deal with issues related to human welfare
B) are especially important
C) if they are valid, they are supported by good reasons
E) all of the above

16) The main focus of ethical inquiry (understood as moral philosophy) is
A) the evaluation of law
B) describing what people do and think in various societies
C) evaluating and prescribing how we ought to act, what kinds of people we ought to be, what kind of situations and outcomes are good and bad
D) none of the above

17. In ethics, such terms as "obligatory" and "forbidden;" "right" and "wrong" are primarily used to evaluate
A) actions B) people C) situations and outcomes

18. In ethics, such terms as "virtuous" and "wicked" are primarily used to evaluate
A) outcomes and situations;
B) people and their character
C) both A) and B)
D) neither A) nor B)

19. The following feature is not mentioned by Shaw as a characteristic of morality
A) moral standards must be supported by adequate reasons
B) moral standards concern behavior of serious consequence to human welfare
C) they are especially important (overriding)
D) they must be in accordance with the true religion

20. According to the concept of morality outlined by Stef in his lectures and outlines, the main kind(s) of external sanctions that come with morality is/are the following:
A) the feelings of guilt, shame, pride, etc.
B) disapproval and anger of others, ostracism
C) prison terms and fines
D) eternal sanction (going to hell or heaven)
E) none of the above.

21. Descriptive ethics is part of moral philosophy
A) TRUE; B) FALSE

22. Metaethics is part of moral philosophy
A) TRUE; B) FALSE

23. Normative ethics (theoretical and applied) is part of moral philosophy
A) TRUE; B) FALSE