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Chapter 13 Self Quiz
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Hedonism, roughly speaking, is the ethical position wherein
the greatest utility for the greatest number of people is the only good.
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satisfying one's desires is the only good, and having them left unsatisfied, the only bad.
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pleasure is the only good and pain is the only bad.
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thrill-seeking, sexual promiscuity, the consumption of drugs, and so on are the only true goods.
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According to the text, which of the following is a direct bad?
The presence of pantry moths
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An overdue bill
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The heartache of a person whose love is unrequited
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Failing an exam in philosophy
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__________ was the most famous of all hedonists who chose to lead a simple, almost ascetic life with his/her friends in a commune.
Richard Layard
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Epicurus
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Susan Wolf
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Which of the following criticisms has/have been made against hedonism?
While pleasure is directly good, it is not the only direct good.
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Not all pleasures are good.
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Hedonism, as a theory, neglects meaningfulness.
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All of the above
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Essence, according to Sartre, more or less means the __________ of a thing
purpose
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various qualities
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fundamental quality
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Being
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For Sartre, one's essence arises owing to __________ creation of it.
God's
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Nature's
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one's own
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our society's
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Sartre defined anguish as the pain we experience
as essential to human life as such.
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when forced to make difficult decisions about what to value.
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after having made horrible decisions about what to value.
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when seemingly good decisions turn out to be horrifying.
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For Sartre, a particularly frequent form of bad faith is
seeing oneself as not bound by moral laws.
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seeing oneself as determining the moral laws for other human beings.
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identifying oneself with one's social role or function (e.g., a waiter or grocer).
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identifying oneself with the roles of society that are looked highly upon.
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Sartre's position has been criticized insofar as
we do not seem to create value, but rather discover it (particularly with pleasure and pain).
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modern materialistic science has shown we are not free in the way Sartre proposes.
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it entirely denies the existence of nature in the "nature vs. nurture" debate.
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human beings can rarely escape living in bad faith.
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Which of the following does not involve active engagement?
Writing checks to your favorite charity
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Climbing a mountain
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Preparing to run a marathon
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Running a marathon
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In addition to meaningfulness, Wolf also believed __________ was an important aspect of a good life
pleasure
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happiness
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free choice
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moral goodness
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Wolf herself raised criticisms against her theory related to the fact that evaluations of worth seem
overly elitist.
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purely subjective.
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culture-bound and variable with time.
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insufficiently grounded in nature.
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