Chapter 6 Self Quiz

. Divine Command Theory seems to imply that if God commanded gratuitous acts of torture those acts would be right.

True

False

. Carol Gilligan argued that there is a special sort of female thinking about ethical problems.

True

False

. Moral objectivism says that where we have a moral judgment and its negation

both must be true.

both must be false.

one must be true and the other false.

None of the above

. The "'X is right' means 'I approve of X'" version of moral subjectivism is unsatisfactory because it doesn't

specify what "X" is.

allow for moral debate.

say who "I" is.

None of the above

. To say that all moral beliefs are equally true would be to voice a form of

metaethical cultural relativism.

metaethical individual relativism.

normative relativism.

None of the above

. Moral objectivism is

cognitivist.

moral anti-realist.

relativist.

None of the above

. "Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." This quote is from

Adam Smith.

Jeremy Bentham.

Immanuel Kant.

John Rawls.

. "To evaluate a person's life we need a kind of 'binocular vision' to assess 'two strands of the good life.'"This quote is from

Aristotle.

Lawrence Kohlberg.

Jonathan Glover.

John Rawls.

. According to Glover, if one strand of the good life is happiness, the other would be

self-satisfaction.

flourishing.

virtue.

None of the above

. "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This quote is from

Carol Gilligan.

NelNoddings.

Virginia Held.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

. According to Kolberg, the highest level of moral thinking is

thinking of right in terms of social roles and relationships.

recognizing and following abstract principles that apply to all humanity.

obeying authority and avoiding punishment.

None of the above

. Charles W Mills criticizes Rawls for

not taking account of historical injustices.

not making rules that were "color-blind."

not stressing freedom and equality.

None of the above

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