PHI2604 Final Review
1. Not thinking too deeply or too systematically about ethical concerns a. isolates you from other people. c. ensures that no moral dilemmas arise. b. undermines your personal freedom. d. helps guide you to moral truth ANS: b. undermines your personal
2. Which of the fol...
PHI2604 Final Review
1. Not thinking too deeply or too systematically about ethical concerns a. isolates you from other
people. c. ensures that no moral dilemmas arise. b. undermines your personal freedom. d. helps guide
you to moral truth ANS: b. undermines your personal
2. Which of the following is the overall point of the author's discussion of "doing ethics"? a. Doing ethics
is difficult, but not doing it is foolish. b. Doing ethics requires many years of careful study. c. Most people
should rely on wiser authorities to do ethics for them. d. Doing ethics is unavoidable for everyone. ANS:
d. Doing ethics is unavoidable for everyone.
3. Which field or topic would include tasks such as accurately describing the moral codes and ethical
standards of colonial America? a. normative ethics c. descriptive ethics b. applied ethics d. instrumental
ethics ANS: c. descriptive ethics
4. What is a major difference between descriptive ethics and normative ethics? a. Normative ethics
concerns moral beliefs, whereas descriptive ethics concerns moral behaviors. b. Normative ethics
implies that some people's moral beliefs are incorrect, whereas descriptive ethics does not. c.
Descriptive ethics cannot be done properly before doing normative ethics. d. Descriptive ethics is not a
scientific topic of study, whereas normative ethics is. ANS: b. Normative ethics implies that some
people's moral beliefs are incorrect, whereas descriptive ethics does not.
5. Morality refers to beliefs about a. praise and punishment. c. legal and moral standards. b. right and
wrong, good and bad. d. typical behavior in one's society. ANS: b. right and wrong, good and bad.
6. Believing that you can establish all your moral beliefs by consulting your feelings is an example of a.
subjectivism. c. reliabilism. b. objectivism. d. critical scrutiny. ANS: a. subjectivism.
7. What does normative ethics study? a. theories that explain why people behave as they do b.
normative standards in different disciplines c. the meaning and logical structure of moral beliefs d.
principles, rules, or theories that guide our actions and judgments ANS: d. principles, rules, or theories
that guide our actions and judgments
8. Which of these questions belongs to metaethics? a. What moral beliefs do cultures embody? b. What
does it mean for an action to be right? c. What theories of ethics do individuals endorse? d. What is the
meaning of life from a moral perspective? ANS: b. What does it mean for an action to be right?
9. Applied ethics is the a. application of normative ethics to metaethics. b. application of society's rules
to one's own life. c. study of the principles and rules that everyone accepts. d. application of moral
norms to specific moral issues or cases. ANS: d. application of moral norms to specific moral issues or
cases.
10. Which field concerns questions such as "Was this abortion permissible?" or "Was this instance of
mercy killing immoral?" a. applied ethics c. normative ethics b. metaethics d. descriptive ethics ANS: a.
applied ethics
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