Deck 1: The Nature of Morality

Question 1

The most important moral issues arise for most ethicists when human beings come together in

A)harmony.
B)religions.
C)social groups.
D)matrimony.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Morality cannot be either true of false.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Morality is a subfield of religion.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Atheists cannot be moral.

Question 5

"Human beings should always act in the interests of others." Is this

A)descriptive?
B)prescriptive?
C)analytic?
D)metaethical?

Question 6

Ethics is

A)the study of knowledge.
B)the study of the nature of reality.
C)the study of human behavior.
D)the study of right and wrong.
E)the study of what is socially acceptable.

Question 7

Philosophical morality is the study of right and wrong actions and good and bad persons.

Question 8

Philosophy means "love of wisdom."

Question 9

If human beings are the source of value then morality is

A)supernatural.
B)natural.
C)objective.
D)subjective.

Question 10

I already know right from wrong.

Question 11

Ethics is solely concerned with the question "What is knowledge?"

Question 12

Ethics is the study of human conduct and human values.

Question 13

Who said that morality was bound up with the function of a human being?

A)Sophocles
B)Jacques Thiroux
C)Your instructor
D)Aristotle
E)Bill Clinton

Question 14

There are two major approaches to the study of morality.

Question 15

According to the author of the text moral conflicts can be resolved through

A)religion.
B)tradition.
C)social acceptability.
D)rational compromise.

Question 16

Philosophers demand in general that beliefs, propositions, and ideas be examined

A)according to tradition.
B)without evaluation.
C)with the Bible in hand.
D)critically.

Question 17

Morality is the same as law and custom.

Question 18

Why, according to the author of the textbook, should humans be moral?

A)self-interest
B)law
C)tradition
D)common human needs