PHIL 110 EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
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PHIL 110 EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
What is "Hedonic adaptation" to a positive experience? - Answer-Hedonic adaption to a positive experience occurs when the positive experience fads to the extent that I return to my baseline happiness before the experience.
What is Ayn ...
PHIL 110 EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
What is "Hedonic adaptation" to a positive experience? - Answer-Hedonic adaption to a
positive experience occurs when the positive experience fads to the extent that I return
to my baseline happiness before the experience.
What is Ayn Rand's "too demanding" objection to utilitarianism? - Answer-It is too
demanding because it requires too much self-sacrificing.
Use the Golden Rule to arrive at a moral verdict on two moral issues (from class or
otherwise). - Answer-Dropping a $20 bill - I would want someone to give it back to me.
The example where Mary commits adultery - I wouldn't want my husband to cheat on
me therefore would not cheat on him
In what sense does sex working involve both economic and sexual objectification? -
Answer-It would involve economical objectification because the prostitute is using the
man/woman for money. It is also sexual objectification because the woman is now an
object being used for sex.
What is it about Social Contract Theory and Kantianism that could make them too
"abstract" to be useful as moral theories? - Answer-The existence of the contract is
abstract and imaginary. If everyone did the same thing is a counterfactual experience
and universalization requires an imaginary land.
Which of our moral theories implies that the moral status of an action can be determined
only a posteriori? - Answer-Utilitariansim
What is "negative responsibility," and how does it play a role in the definition of "passive
lying"? - Answer-Passive lying occurs when someone has the ability to say something
but chooses to not correct a false believe. Negative responsibilty plays a role in this
because that person had the opportuniy to correct a false belief but did not.
The Naturalism argument for Speciesism shares a premise with the Naturalism
argument for Egoism. What is it? - Answer-What is natural cannot be wrong, pursuing
my own self-interest is natural, therefore, ethical egoism cannot be wrong.
What does it mean to deliberate about moral rules behind the "veil of ignorance"? -
Answer-Technical phrase by John Rawls. While deciding on what moral rules to create
and consent to, you must be behind "the veil of ignorance" and be unknown to your
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