PHIL 110 Review Exam Questions
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Which of the following basic moral principles most obviously conflicts with the "justice
argument" against suicide?
A) The Principle of Fairness
B) The Principle of Honesty
C) The Justification of Life Principle
D) The Principle of Individual Freedom - Answer-D) The Principle of Individual Freedom
Which of the following traditional arguments in favor of capital punishment is no longer
taken seriously?
A) the "revenge" argument
B) the "uselessness of rehabilitation" argument
C) the "bloodlust" argument
D) the "economic" argument - Answer-A) the "revenge" argument
Assume you've just discovered that your neighbor has a terrible, contagious disease.
You just checked Google, and people with this disease on average spread it to 100
hundred other people. Your neighbor has just left his house and is walking to the mall.
He refuses to stop, despite your pleading, and the police refuse to take your reports
seriously.
According to The Goodness Principle, you have a prima facie right to __________.
A) escape to another city, even if doing so leaves your family at great risk
B) let him go to the mall
C) imprison and torture him
D) take his life so that you can save others - Answer-D) take his life so that you can
save others
An obvious problem with the argument that we have a moral right to commit suicide
because we should be free to do as we wish with our bodies is that __________.
,A) our bodies are never really "ours"
B)we clearly do NOT have an absolute right to do whatever we wish with our bodies; for
example, I can't use my body to kill you, even if I wish to
C) it implies that I have a right to eternal life, just by wishing not to die
D) our bodies clearly belong as much to the state as to ourselves - Answer-B)we clearly
do NOT have an absolute right to do whatever we wish with our bodies; for example, I
can't use my body to kill you, even if I wish to
Which of the following is most clearly NOT an example of someone who is guilty of
taking his own life?
A) A guilt-ridden serial killer drowns himself to prevent more innocent deaths
B) A man knowingly takes a dose of a lethal drug because he is overwhelmed with the
desire to experience its infamous "high."
C) A man accidentally kills himself by falling off a ladder he was climbing so that he
could hang himself.
D) A man jumps in front of a bullet to prevent it from hitting his son. - Answer-D) A man
jumps in front of a bullet to prevent it from hitting his son.
In the famous 1977 Stove v. Wade decision at the supreme court in Wimbledon,
abortion became legal. - Answer-False
By the end of the fourth week after conception the embryo looks like a newt or tadpole
with gills and a tail. - Answer-True
Viability occurs between the 15th and 17th weeks. - Answer-False
Abortion is currently legal in the US. - Answer-True
For many moderates abortion is an unresolvable conflict of absolutes. - Answer-True
The abortion debate reveals a conflict between which two basic moral principles?
A) the Principle of Goodness and the Principle of Rightness
B) the Principle of Individual Freedom and the Value of Life Principle
C) the Principle of Honesty and the Principle of Justice
,D) the Principle of Honesty and the Value of Life Principle - Answer-C) the Principle of
Honesty and the Principle of Justice
Complete the following argument by making it as accurate and uncontroversial as
possible.
"The conflict of rights at the heart of the abortion debate occurs when the mother's right
over her own body runs up against __________."
A) the religious views of the community
B) a fetus's apparent right to life
C) sexist social mores and practices
D) a living but unborn human's right to life - Answer-B) a fetus's apparent right to life
The genetic argument against abortion asserts that human life exists from conception
onward. In support of this claim it argues that __________.
A) God invests every zygote with a genetic "recipe" for becoming a unique person
B) the basic outline of the human face can be detected soon after conception
C) a person's genetic profile is established at conception and it "programs" the creation
of a unique individual
D) genetically-grounded personality traits are present immediately after conception -
Answer-C) a person's genetic profile is established at conception and it "programs" the
creation of a unique individual
Morality cannot be either true of false. - Answer-True
Ethics is solely concerned with the question "What is knowledge?" - Answer-False
Philosophical morality is the study of right and wrong actions and good and bad
persons. - Answer-True
Ethics is the study of human conduct and human values. - Answer-True
Atheists cannot be moral. - Answer-False
Kohlberg's Theory is a highly influential theory of __________.
A)the nature of evil
B)reflective morality
C)moral development
D)moral subjectivism - Answer-Moral Development
, A major difference between ethics and the philosophy of art is that the latter is
concerned with __________.
*exploring the link between deeming something good and its ability to produce a kind of
pleasure
*the moral relevance of nonmoral artworks
*good and bad primarily in an aesthetic sense
*the relativity of all values, including aesthetic and moral values - Answer-good and bad
primarily in an aesthetic sense
It seems to be an empirical fact that the sorts of things people consider morally
good__________.
*always concern sex and money
*involve happiness and/or pleasure
*completely change over the course of a lifetime
*are the same things their parents considered morally good - Answer-involve happiness
and/or pleasure
Which of the following statements is likely to seem contradictory, from the moral point of
view?
*"It is true that the film glorifies violence, but it is still a great film."
*Mary was right to scold you the other day for stealing, though Mary is a bit of a thief
herself."
*"Granted, Bob does all sorts of immoral things, but he is a good guy."
*"It is possible for a person to behave immorally even when she is certain that she is
doing the right thing." - Answer-"Granted, Bob does all sorts of immoral things, but he is
a good guy."
What are the five major branches of philosophy (as specified in the textbook)?
*ethics, metaphysics, aesthetics, cultural studies, and philosophy of mind
*ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, modern philosophy, romanticism, and
postmodernism
*epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, and aesthetics
*psychology, science, logic, ethics, and theology - Answer-epistemology, metaphysics,
logic, ethics, and aesthetics
Manners and etiquette are __________.
*impervious to ethical criticism
*a central concern of philosophical ethics
*examples of moral codes that are never culturally relative
