PHI 110 UNIT 1 EXAM WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
According to the Argument from Queerness (part 1), "If there were objective values,
then they would be entities or qualities or relations of a (?), utterly different from
anything else in the universe." - Answer- very strange sort
According to the Argument from Queerness (part 2), if we were aware of objective
values, "it would have to be by some special faculty of moral (1) or (2), utterly different
from our ordinary ways of knowing everything else." - Answer- 1) perception
2) intuition
According to Mackie, our knowledge of many things besides morality is also non-
empirical.
True of False - Answer- False
According to Mackie, - Answer- If there were objective values, they would be intrinsically
motivating to anyone acquainted with them.
We have no idea how objective moral qualities could be linked to natural features of the
world.
According to Mackie, "the supposed objectivity of moral qualities" arises "from what we
can call the (1) or (2) of moral attitudes." - Answer- 1) projection
2) objectification
Enoch thinks that you are a moral - Answer- Objectivist / realist
"If you don't like spinach, the reason you shouldn't have it is precisely that you don't (?)
it." - Answer- like
According to Enoch, if an analogue of the spinach joke is not funny, then the subject
matter is - Answer- Objective
According to Enoch, which analogues of the spinach joke are funny?
A. A joke about the earth revolving around the sun.
B. A joke about the immorality of slavery.
C. A and B
, D. None of the above - Answer- D. None of the above
According to Enoch, moral disagreement (or deliberation) feels more like disagreement
about - Answer- whether human actions influence global warming
According to Enoch, if our beliefs and practices had been very different, it would still
have been true that
A. Top hats are out of fashion
B. Gender-based discrimination is wrong.
C. Smoking causes cancer.
D. A and B
E. B and C
F. All of the above. - Answer- E. B and C
The study of what we should aspire to in our life, and of how we should live, is called ( 1
) philosophy or (2). - Answer- 1) moral
2) ethics
The area of moral philosophy that tries to determine what is valuable in and of itself, or
what good life consists in, is called - Answer- Value theory
The branch of philosophy which tries to identify the supreme principle(s) of right action
is called - Answer- Normative ethics
The part of ethics that asks about whether there are any genuine moral truths, what
they are, and how we know them, is called - Answer- Metaethics
The last section of our book is devoted to a variety of - Answer- Moral problems
The kind of philosophy that is represented in the last section of the book is commonly
called - Answer- Applied ethics
Utilitarianism is a position in - Answer- Normative ethics
The philosopher makes the following argument? "If moral claims were objectively true,
then we should be able to discover our moral duty just by thinking hard about it. But no
amount of reasoning can show us moral duty. Therefore morality cannot be objective." -
Answer- David Hume
Which philosopher agues that all of us are committed to the position that morality is
objective? - Answer- David Enoch
The philosopher in our book who will argue against cultural relativism is - Answer- Harry
Gensler and Mary Midgley
CORRECT ANSWERS
According to the Argument from Queerness (part 1), "If there were objective values,
then they would be entities or qualities or relations of a (?), utterly different from
anything else in the universe." - Answer- very strange sort
According to the Argument from Queerness (part 2), if we were aware of objective
values, "it would have to be by some special faculty of moral (1) or (2), utterly different
from our ordinary ways of knowing everything else." - Answer- 1) perception
2) intuition
According to Mackie, our knowledge of many things besides morality is also non-
empirical.
True of False - Answer- False
According to Mackie, - Answer- If there were objective values, they would be intrinsically
motivating to anyone acquainted with them.
We have no idea how objective moral qualities could be linked to natural features of the
world.
According to Mackie, "the supposed objectivity of moral qualities" arises "from what we
can call the (1) or (2) of moral attitudes." - Answer- 1) projection
2) objectification
Enoch thinks that you are a moral - Answer- Objectivist / realist
"If you don't like spinach, the reason you shouldn't have it is precisely that you don't (?)
it." - Answer- like
According to Enoch, if an analogue of the spinach joke is not funny, then the subject
matter is - Answer- Objective
According to Enoch, which analogues of the spinach joke are funny?
A. A joke about the earth revolving around the sun.
B. A joke about the immorality of slavery.
C. A and B
, D. None of the above - Answer- D. None of the above
According to Enoch, moral disagreement (or deliberation) feels more like disagreement
about - Answer- whether human actions influence global warming
According to Enoch, if our beliefs and practices had been very different, it would still
have been true that
A. Top hats are out of fashion
B. Gender-based discrimination is wrong.
C. Smoking causes cancer.
D. A and B
E. B and C
F. All of the above. - Answer- E. B and C
The study of what we should aspire to in our life, and of how we should live, is called ( 1
) philosophy or (2). - Answer- 1) moral
2) ethics
The area of moral philosophy that tries to determine what is valuable in and of itself, or
what good life consists in, is called - Answer- Value theory
The branch of philosophy which tries to identify the supreme principle(s) of right action
is called - Answer- Normative ethics
The part of ethics that asks about whether there are any genuine moral truths, what
they are, and how we know them, is called - Answer- Metaethics
The last section of our book is devoted to a variety of - Answer- Moral problems
The kind of philosophy that is represented in the last section of the book is commonly
called - Answer- Applied ethics
Utilitarianism is a position in - Answer- Normative ethics
The philosopher makes the following argument? "If moral claims were objectively true,
then we should be able to discover our moral duty just by thinking hard about it. But no
amount of reasoning can show us moral duty. Therefore morality cannot be objective." -
Answer- David Hume
Which philosopher agues that all of us are committed to the position that morality is
objective? - Answer- David Enoch
The philosopher in our book who will argue against cultural relativism is - Answer- Harry
Gensler and Mary Midgley
