Which philosopher is stated to have said, "All evil is ignorance"?
a. C.L. Stevenson
b. Plato
c. David Hume
d. Mary
Wollstonecraft
True or False? Descriptive judgments are highly normative, or
prescriptive. They thus tell us what we ought to do by prescribing
the right choice or action.
False
True or False? Those who study and practice the academic and
therapeutic disciplines of sociology and psychology, respectively,
use empirical data and theoretical guidelines to make descriptive
judgments or diagnose problems before treatment is
recommended.
True
We state factual beliefs through:
a. emotional judgments, or those based entirely on feelings.
b. normative judgments.
c. descriptive or empirical judgments.
d. mere opinion.
True or False? No uses of the term terrorism are evaluative in
nature.
False
A sound argument in ethics, or any field using human reason,
has:
Valid form and true premises.
, If I say that global climate change is my serious ethical concern,
but I have no serious strategy or plan for doing anything about it
and so continue to live and consume wastefully, then what could
be said of my ethical thinking and action?
They are inconsistent or contradictory.
If I say that global climate change is not a serious problem
because a professor of business said it is not in a letter to the
Wall Street Journal, what fallacy is it?
Ad hominem
The terms "right" and "wrong" usually apply to:
b. actions.
Basic ethical values are part of an ethical
a. Theory.
True or False? Making ethical judgments must be at least partly an
exercise in rationality
True
Objectivists might insist that tolerance is a real good, universally
across cultures, and therefore would reason that:
b. we ought to be tolerant of, or open to, others' views, because they may
be closer to the truth that we are on some issues.
True or False? Since no one else will take care of you, it is
important to consider your own interests first and others only
secondarily. According to most traditions, survival is more
important than ethics.
False
What is the opposite of relativism?
a. C.L. Stevenson
b. Plato
c. David Hume
d. Mary
Wollstonecraft
True or False? Descriptive judgments are highly normative, or
prescriptive. They thus tell us what we ought to do by prescribing
the right choice or action.
False
True or False? Those who study and practice the academic and
therapeutic disciplines of sociology and psychology, respectively,
use empirical data and theoretical guidelines to make descriptive
judgments or diagnose problems before treatment is
recommended.
True
We state factual beliefs through:
a. emotional judgments, or those based entirely on feelings.
b. normative judgments.
c. descriptive or empirical judgments.
d. mere opinion.
True or False? No uses of the term terrorism are evaluative in
nature.
False
A sound argument in ethics, or any field using human reason,
has:
Valid form and true premises.
, If I say that global climate change is my serious ethical concern,
but I have no serious strategy or plan for doing anything about it
and so continue to live and consume wastefully, then what could
be said of my ethical thinking and action?
They are inconsistent or contradictory.
If I say that global climate change is not a serious problem
because a professor of business said it is not in a letter to the
Wall Street Journal, what fallacy is it?
Ad hominem
The terms "right" and "wrong" usually apply to:
b. actions.
Basic ethical values are part of an ethical
a. Theory.
True or False? Making ethical judgments must be at least partly an
exercise in rationality
True
Objectivists might insist that tolerance is a real good, universally
across cultures, and therefore would reason that:
b. we ought to be tolerant of, or open to, others' views, because they may
be closer to the truth that we are on some issues.
True or False? Since no one else will take care of you, it is
important to consider your own interests first and others only
secondarily. According to most traditions, survival is more
important than ethics.
False
What is the opposite of relativism?
