(M) Quizzes

Question 1

Moral realism claims that existence of moral facts and truth and falsity of moral judgment are dependent of people’s thoughts and perceptions

Answer 1

False (independent)

Question 2

According to moral intuitionism knowledge are knowable by intuition.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Deontology is an ethical system that bases morality on dependent moral rules and duties.

Answer 3

False (independent moral rules)

Question 4

The outcome of the actions is the main focus in teleology.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Non-cognitivist’s claims that ethical sentences do not convey authentic propositions

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Non-cognitivism claims that moral judgments are either true or false.

Answer 6

False (definition is for cognitivism)

Question 7

We do normative ethics if we justify norms.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Meta-ethics is a branch of ethics that studies the rightness and wrongness of actions.

Answer 8

False (Normative ethics def)

Question 9

The main objective of applied ethics is to examine the general issues in the society.

Answer 9

False (Social ethics)

Question 10

Experience is the only bases of moral knowledge according to the theory of empiricism

Answer 10

False (di ko alam bakit huhu)

edit: through observation and experience

Question 11

Aristotle’s idea of happiness should also be understood in the sense of human telos.

Answer 11

False (di ko alam bakit)

Question 12

Socrates believed in the existence of objective ethical standards though he admitted that it is not easy to specify them

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Good will are the freely chosen traits character that people praise in others.

Answer 13

False (virtues)

Question 14

Aquinas believes that all actions are directed towards end, and the happiness is the final end.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Aquinas and Aristotle share Socrates view of bad deeds as mere ignorance of the good.

Answer 15

False (Plato and Aristotle???)

Question 16

For Aristotle, who comprehend the good will always do good action.

Answer 16

False (For Plato)

Question 17

Aristotle’s moral virtues follow from our nature as rational beings, they are the traits or characteristics that enable us to act according to reason

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Aquinas believes that the essence or essential nature of being, including humans, lay not at their cause but at their ends.

Answer 18

False (Aristotle)

Question 19

According to Socrates and Aristotle, all vice is the result of lack of knowledge

Answer 19

False (Socrates and Plato)

Question 20

According to Aquinas, natural law is knowable by natural reason.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Rights base ethics in a specific moral theory in which Kant’s principle of rights theory is included.

Answer 21

False (broad moral theory)

Question 22

Teleological ethical system judges the rightness to an act in terms of an internal goal or purpose.

Answer 22

False (external)

Question 23

Kant completely removes one’s taste, emotion, liking and the like in the sphere of morality

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Bentham is the most famous proponent of Utilitarianism after Mill.

Answer 24

False (baliktad)

Question 25

The principle of utility thus state that an action is right insofar as it tends to produce greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Moral rights in plain contrast, are rights that exist prior to and dependently from their legal counterparts.

Answer 26

False (independently)

Question 27

Mill founded the doctrine of Utilitarianism.

Answer 27

False (Bentham)

Question 28

Legal rights denote all the rights are not found within existing legal codes.

Answer 28

False (are found within existing legal codes)

Question 29

Utilitarianism appears to be a direct negative reaction against Aquinas ethics.

Answer 29

False (Kantian Ethics daw sabi ni Clariza)

Question 30

Plato submits that some actions, like lying are wrong regardless of the circumstances and the outcomes they generated.

Answer 30

False (Kant)