PHILOSOPHY 208 WEEK 5 QUIZ

PHILOSOPHY 208 WEEK 5 QUIZ Grading Summary These are the automatically computed results of your exam. Grades for essay questions, and comments from your instructor, are in the "Details" section below. Date Taken: 5/19/2017 Time Spent: 29 min , 19 secs Points Received: 20 / 20 (100%) Number of Attempts: 1 Question Type: # Of Questions: # Correct: Multiple Choice 20 20 Grade Details - All Questions Question 1.Question : What, according to Nel Noddings’ article “Maternal Ethics”, do male philosophers tend to say about death (as opposed to women)? Student Answer: Men are more brave in the face of death than women because of their natural courageousness Male philosophers often talk as though the world of reason and abstraction is superior to the physical world of the body Death tends to be harder on men due to their attachments to the glory of this world Women are more able to allow their faith in the afterlife Instructor Explanation: overcome their aversion to death The answer can be found on p. 219-220 of Nel Noddings’s “Maternal Ethics” Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 2.Question : How have historians tended to treat typically male tendencies versus typically female tendencies, according to Nel Noddings in the article “Maternal Ethics”? Student Answer: Historians value female tendencies more highly because it is