Phil 110 STUDY TEST QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
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Phil 110 STUDY TEST QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What are objective list views of the good life? - Answer-You're well off to the extent that you have certain goods. You're worse off to the extent that you lack certain goods.
Objective list views deny the claim that we need some pleasure ...
Phil 110 STUDY TEST QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What are objective list views of the good life? - Answer-You're well off to the extent that
you have certain goods. You're worse off to the extent that you lack certain goods.
Objective list views deny the claim that we need some pleasure and enjoyment in order
to have the good life - Answer-False.
Objective list views deny the claim that we need only what we think we need. - Answer-
True.
According to Aristotle, what sorts of things do we need for the good life (well-being)? -
Answer-Friends, wealth, political power, leisure time, and good birth.
What is the Sufficiency claim? - Answer-Virtue is sufficient for human well-being.
What is the necessity claim? - Answer-Virtue is necessary for human well-being.
Aristotle holds the view of the necessity claim. - Answer-True.
Plato and the Stoics support the necessity claim and the sufficiency claim. - Answer-
True.
What three reasons/arguments did we discuss in support of the Sufficiency Claim? -
Answer-French & German resistance fighters, German film Sophie Scholl.
What argument did we discuss which suggests that friendship with God is necessary for
true happiness? - Answer-If God exists, then, according to the major religious traditions,
our well-being (current well-being & future well-being) depends on whether we are
correctly related to God.
What argument did we discuss which suggests that heading to a good afterlife is
necessary for true happiness? - Answer-IF there is an afterlife, then heading to a good
afterlife is necessary for true happiness. My long-term destiny appears to make a big
difference to whether I'm living the good life now.
Describe what the "why be moral?" question is asking. - Answer-Why should we always
do what is right?
, What is the common sense view in response to the "why be moral?" question? -
Answer-Common Sense View: we should always do what is right.
We teach our kids: do the right thing.
We don't teach our kids: do the right thing, unless you can get away with doing the
wrong thing.
-From Plato's Republic, what is Glaucon's View in response to the "why be moral?"
question - Answer-We should always do the right thing, unless we can get away with
doing what is wrong.
Explain Plato's tale of the ring of Gyges. - Answer-Found a magic ring which make the
wearer invisible.
Characterize Plato's argument from psychological damage. - Answer-Doing wrong
always damages your psychological well-being.
Your psychological well-being is the most important ingredient of your well-being
What case did we discuss which suggests Plato's premise—that doing wrong always
damages your psychological well-being—is false? - Answer-The final conversation
between Judah and Clifford.
Characterize the Ancient-medieval argument from spiritual damage. How is doing wrong
thought to damage our well-being? - Answer-Doing wrong always damages your
spiritual well-being.
Your spiritual well-being is the most important ingredient of your well-being.
What reasons did we discuss for why we fear death? - Answer-Dying process, being cut
off from loved ones, absolute isolation, personal annihilation, bad afterlife, the unknown.
Characterize Epicurus' argument for why we should not fear death. - Answer-Death is
nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes,
then we do not exist.
What objection to Epicurus' argument, death is not harmful to you so you shouldnt fear
it, did the instructor suggest? - Answer-Death is harmful to you because it deprives you
of certain goods (life, health, friendships, good experiences). That is good reason to fear
death.
What is the view of moral objectivism? - Answer-There are some objective moral truths.
What is the view of moral nonobjectivism? - Answer-There are no objective moral truths.
What are the 4 types of moral nonobjectivism? - Answer-Nihilism, Subjectivism,
Relativism, Skepticism.
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