PHI 2604 PROCTORED EXAM 2023 SUMMER FALL
SESSION (MIAMI DADE COLLEGE)
which field or topic would include tasks such as accurately describing the moral
codes and ethical standards of colonial America - ANSWER: descriptive ethics
morality refers to beliefs about - ANSWER: legal and moral standards
believing that you can establish all your moral beliefs by consulting your feelings is
an example of - ANSWER: Subjectivism
what does normative ethics study - ANSWER: principles, rules, or theories that guide
our actions and judgments
which of these questions belongs to metaethics - ANSWER: what does it mean for an
action to be right?
applied ethics is the - ANSWER: application of moral norms to specific moral issues or
cases
Which field concerns questions such as "Was this abortion permissible?" or "Was this
instance of mercy killing immoral - ANSWER: applied ethics
The preeminence of reason refers to the - ANSWER: overriding importance of critical
reasoning in ethics
The dominance of moral norms suggests that if a speed limit on a highway conflicts
with a person's moral duty to rush a dying man to the hospital, then - ANSWER: the
moral duty would take precedence over the legal duty.
When religious adherents claim that murder is wrong because God says that it is,
they are implicitly espousing the - ANSWER: divine command theory
In arguing against the divine command theory, many critics insist that - ANSWER: f
an action is right only because God wills it, then many evil actions would be right if
God willed them
Why does Leibniz, the great theistic philosopher, reject the divine command theory -
ANSWER: because it implies God is unworthy of worship
Subjective relativism is the doctrine that - ANSWER: an action is morally right if one
approves of it.
Objectivism is the view that - ANSWER: some moral principles are valid for everyone
, Both objectivists and cultural relativists agree that - ANSWER: moral judgments differ
from culture to culture
According to the main argument for cultural relativism, if culture X and culture Y
disagree about the morality of physician-assisted suicide, this shows that - ANSWER:
no view can be objectively correct.
Objectivists argue that the diversity of moral judgments across cultures does not
necessarily indicate that there is disagreement about moral beliefs, but instead may
indicate that - ANSWER: there are divergent nonmoral beliefs.
Suppose a culture approves of beheading a young man for merely holding hands
with a woman. According to cultural relativism, the beheading is - ANSWER:
objectively justified.
Cultural relativism implies that the abolition of slavery in the United States -
ANSWER: cannot be regarded as moral progress.
What does cultural relativism imply about the civil rights leader and social reformer
Martin Luther King Jr., considered as part of 1950s-1960s United States culture? -
ANSWER: He was wrong about his moral reforms.
Cognitivism is the view that moral statements - ANSWER: can be true or false.
A statement is - ANSWER: an assertion that something is or is not the case
In this argument-"(1) Premarital sex is morally permissible because (2) it makes
people happy"-statement 1 is the ______; statement 2 is the ______. - ANSWER:
conclusion; premise
An argument in the logical sense is a: - ANSWER: a group of statements, one of which
is supposed to be supported by the rest
In an argument, the supporting statements are known as ______; the statement
being supported is known as the ______. - ANSWER: premises; conclusion
Deductive arguments are - ANSWER: suppose to offer probable support for their
conclusion
A valid deductive argument with true premises is said to be: - ANSWER: sound.
Name the form of the following argument: If the dog barks, something must be
wrong. Something must be wrong. Therefore, the dog will bark. - ANSWER: affirming
the consequent
Name the form of the following argument: If p, then q.p. Therefore, q. - ANSWER:
hypothetical syllogism.
SESSION (MIAMI DADE COLLEGE)
which field or topic would include tasks such as accurately describing the moral
codes and ethical standards of colonial America - ANSWER: descriptive ethics
morality refers to beliefs about - ANSWER: legal and moral standards
believing that you can establish all your moral beliefs by consulting your feelings is
an example of - ANSWER: Subjectivism
what does normative ethics study - ANSWER: principles, rules, or theories that guide
our actions and judgments
which of these questions belongs to metaethics - ANSWER: what does it mean for an
action to be right?
applied ethics is the - ANSWER: application of moral norms to specific moral issues or
cases
Which field concerns questions such as "Was this abortion permissible?" or "Was this
instance of mercy killing immoral - ANSWER: applied ethics
The preeminence of reason refers to the - ANSWER: overriding importance of critical
reasoning in ethics
The dominance of moral norms suggests that if a speed limit on a highway conflicts
with a person's moral duty to rush a dying man to the hospital, then - ANSWER: the
moral duty would take precedence over the legal duty.
When religious adherents claim that murder is wrong because God says that it is,
they are implicitly espousing the - ANSWER: divine command theory
In arguing against the divine command theory, many critics insist that - ANSWER: f
an action is right only because God wills it, then many evil actions would be right if
God willed them
Why does Leibniz, the great theistic philosopher, reject the divine command theory -
ANSWER: because it implies God is unworthy of worship
Subjective relativism is the doctrine that - ANSWER: an action is morally right if one
approves of it.
Objectivism is the view that - ANSWER: some moral principles are valid for everyone
, Both objectivists and cultural relativists agree that - ANSWER: moral judgments differ
from culture to culture
According to the main argument for cultural relativism, if culture X and culture Y
disagree about the morality of physician-assisted suicide, this shows that - ANSWER:
no view can be objectively correct.
Objectivists argue that the diversity of moral judgments across cultures does not
necessarily indicate that there is disagreement about moral beliefs, but instead may
indicate that - ANSWER: there are divergent nonmoral beliefs.
Suppose a culture approves of beheading a young man for merely holding hands
with a woman. According to cultural relativism, the beheading is - ANSWER:
objectively justified.
Cultural relativism implies that the abolition of slavery in the United States -
ANSWER: cannot be regarded as moral progress.
What does cultural relativism imply about the civil rights leader and social reformer
Martin Luther King Jr., considered as part of 1950s-1960s United States culture? -
ANSWER: He was wrong about his moral reforms.
Cognitivism is the view that moral statements - ANSWER: can be true or false.
A statement is - ANSWER: an assertion that something is or is not the case
In this argument-"(1) Premarital sex is morally permissible because (2) it makes
people happy"-statement 1 is the ______; statement 2 is the ______. - ANSWER:
conclusion; premise
An argument in the logical sense is a: - ANSWER: a group of statements, one of which
is supposed to be supported by the rest
In an argument, the supporting statements are known as ______; the statement
being supported is known as the ______. - ANSWER: premises; conclusion
Deductive arguments are - ANSWER: suppose to offer probable support for their
conclusion
A valid deductive argument with true premises is said to be: - ANSWER: sound.
Name the form of the following argument: If the dog barks, something must be
wrong. Something must be wrong. Therefore, the dog will bark. - ANSWER: affirming
the consequent
Name the form of the following argument: If p, then q.p. Therefore, q. - ANSWER:
hypothetical syllogism.
