Exercise #2 (metaethics/norm ethics)


Answer all questions using scantrons distributed in class. Pleased use pencils. Exactly one answer to each question is best and thus correct. Due TBA. Please keep a copy for your file.

1. According to the lectures and outlines, the rules of etiquette are
A) normative
B) purely descriptive
C) based on religion
D) none of the above.

7. The claim that "An action, A, is obligatory for S only if S can do A" (that is, that "ought entails can") belongs to
A) metaethics
B) applied ethics
C) theoretical ethics
D) none of the above (e.g., it's not an ethical or normative claim).

2. The following claim is not normative
A) lawyers ought to tell the truth to their clients
B) doctors ought to tell the truth to their patients
C) Beethoven's IX symphony is beautiful
D) The Rocky Mountains are old.

8 According to the concept of morality outlined by Stef in his lectures and outlines, the main kind(s) of internal 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) none of the above.

3) Descriptive ethics is part of moral philosophy
A) true B) false

 

4) Normative ethics is part of moral philosophy
A) true B) false

9. According to the concept of law outlined by Stef in his lectures and outlines, the main kind(s) of internal sanctions that come with law 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) none of the above, law does not come with any internal sanction.

5. The claim that hunting deer is what some Texans do belongs to
A) metaethics
B) applied ethics
C) theoretical ethics
D) none of the above (e.g., it's not an ethical or normative claim).

10. According to the concept of religion outlined by Stef in his lectures and outlines, the main kind(s) of external sanctions that come with religion is/are the following:
A) the feelings of guilt, shame, pride, etc.
B) prison terms and fines
C) eternal sanction administered by a deity (e.g., going to hell or heaven)
D) none of the above.

6. The claim that hunting deer in Texans is morally permissible belongs to
A) metaethics
B) applied ethics
C) theoretical ethics
D) none of the above (e.g., it's not an ethical or normative claim).

11) Internal sanctions are
A) feelings someone may have when she does something wrong or right
B) rewards and punishments administered buy friends and society (and possibly deity)
C) neither of the above

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12. According to Stef, universal religions (such as mainstream versions of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, etc.)
A) frequently require of us to act contrary to morality
B) frequently require of us to act contrary to reason and common sense
C) rarely (or never) require of us to act contrary to morality and reason.

16. According to consequentialism, the moral status of a given action (i.e. whether an act is right or wrong, obligatory or forbidden, etc.) depends
A) solely on what agents think about this action
B) on the value brought about by the results of performing this action
C)  something other than the consequences of this action.

13. Stef characterized in class cults as systems of norms that
A) frequently require of us to act contrary to morality and reason
B) rarely (or never) require of of us to act contrary to morality and reason.

17. According to deontology, the moral status of a given action (i.e. whether this act is right or wrong, obligatory or forbidden, etc.) depends
A) solely on what agents think about this action
B) on the value brought about by the results of performing this action
C)  something other than the consequences of this action (e.g., whether the action is in accordance with one's duty)

14. Supererogatory acts
A) go beyond the call of duty
B) are merely morally permissible
C) are morally required
D) none of the above.

18. According to utilitarians the consequences of a right action
A) can include some negative utility.
B) can include some positive utility
C) can include short run utility
D) can include long run utility
E) all of the above

15. Both Stef and Shaw maintain that
A) moral norms and legal norms ought to be extensional equivalent (that is, whatever is prohibited by law must also be prohibited by morality and vice versa).
B) morality and law must be totally separate (that is, no action may be prohibited both by law and by morality)
C) moral norms and legal norms may overlap partially but not completely
D) none of the above

19. The following is not a consequentialist theory
A) ethical egoism
B) utilitarianism
C) (radical) ethical altruism
D) Ross's system of prima facie duties
E) they are all versions of consequentialism

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