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PHILOSOPHY 208 WEEK 5 QUIZQuestion 1.Question : What, according to Nel Noddings’ article “Maternal Ethics”, do male philosophers tend to say about death (as opposed to women)? Student Answer: Men are more brave in the face of death than women because of their natural courageousness ...

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PHILOSOPHY 208 WEEK 5 QUIZ
Grading Summary

These are the automatically
computed results of your exam. Date Taken: 5/19/2017
Grades for essay questions, and Time Spent: 29 min , 19 secs
comments from your instructor, Points Received: (100%)
are in the "Details" section below. Number of Attempts: 1
Question Type: # Of Questions: # Correct:
Multiple Choice 20 20


Grade Details - All Questions
Question 1.Question :

What, according to Nel Noddings’ article “Maternal Ethics”, do
male philosophers tend to say about death (as opposed to women)?

Student Answer: Men are more brave in the face of death than women because

of their natural courageousness
Male philosophers often talk as though the world of reason and

abstraction is superior to the physical world of the body
Death tends to be harder on men due to their attachments to the

glory of this world
Women are more able to allow their faith in the afterlife

overcome their aversion to death
Instructor The answer can be found on p. 219-220 of Nel Noddings’s
Explanation: “Maternal Ethics”
Points Received: 1 of 1
Comments:

Question 2.Question :
How have historians tended to treat typically male tendencies
versus typically female tendencies, according to Nel Noddings in
the article “Maternal Ethics”?

Student Answer: Historians value female tendencies more highly because it is

, childbearing and childrearing that enable the group to survive
Male tendencies, like mathematics, warfare, and even singing

have been prized more highly by historians
Historians have generally paid equal regard to both kinds of

tendency.
Historians value female tendencies more highly because most

historians have themselves been female
Instructor The answer can be found on p. 215-216 of Nel Noddings’s
Explanation: “Maternal Ethics”
Points Received: 1 of 1
Comments:

Question 3.Question :
According to Gilligan, stages five and six of Kohlberg’s analysis
of moral development involve

Student Answer: an egocentric understanding of fairness

shared conventions of societal agreement

a disposition of emotional affectivity

a logic of equality and reciprocity

Instructor The answer can be found on page 27 of Carol Gilligan’s In a
Explanation: Different Voice
Points Received: 1 of 1
Comments:

Question 4.Question :
In Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice, the example of
Heinz involves which crime?

Student murder
Answer:
theft

arson

, racketeering

Instructor The answer can be found on pages 25 and 26 of Carol Gilligan’s In a
Explanation: Different Voice
Points Received: 1 of 1
Comments:

Question 5.Question :
What does Nel Noddings say about rates of violent crime among
men and women, according to the article “Maternal Ethics”?

Student Answer: Women commit nearly as much crime as men do; gender

differences here are illusory
Men commit far fewer violent crimes than women; our

ignorance of this is due to the influence of media.
There has never been a proven case of a woman committing a

violent crime; all such crimes have been committed by men.
By nature men are generally much more violence prone than

women
Instructor The answer can be found on p. 213-214 of Nel Noddings’s
Explanation: “Maternal Ethics”
Points Received: 1 of 1
Comments:

Question 6.Question :
Feminist ethics is based around which of the following ideas,
according to Virginia Held in “Feminist Transformation of
Moral Theory”?

Student Answer: That abstract universal principles can be applied to most

situations to find the best action.
That emotions can be cultivated and ought to be taken into

account in ethical theory.
That maximizing something like happiness or pleasure is the

best way to guide action.
That all humans are autonomous individuals who battle for

, resources.
Instructor The answer can be found in the section titled “Reason and Emotion”
Explanation: from Virginia Held’s article.
Points Received: 1 of 1
Comments:

Question 7.Question :
What does Noddings say about women’s feelings about the death
of the body, according to the article “Maternal Ethics”?

Student Answer: Women know the preciousness of the body because they create

them and care for them
Women, more than anyone, just want to know that the soul of

their child has gone to heaven
Women are happy not to have to deal with the messiness of

dead bodies
Men tend to be more sensitive to the death of the body since

they are the ones that have to risk their own lives in war
Instructor The answer can be found on p. 219-220 of Nel Noddings’s
Explanation: “Maternal Ethics”
Points Received: 1 of 1
Comments:

Question 8.Question :
According to Caroline Heldman, what is one way that men can
contribute to overcoming the sexual objectification of women?

Student Answer: they can be kind to women

they can tell women that they are attractive

they can stop evaluating women based on their looks

they can stop seeking attention

Instructor The answer can be found in the video “The Sexy Lie”
Explanation:
Points Received: 1 of 1
Comments:

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