Deck 2: Ethics, Desires, and Intentions: Exploring Human Conduct and Motivations

Question 1

Ethics is concerned the ------------------- to judge human conduct

A)standards
B)facts
C)objects
D)all of these

Answer 1

standards

Question 2

Logic, Ethic and Aesthetics- these three sciences are essentially -------------------

A)positive
B)intuitive
C)cognate
D)none of these

Answer 2

cognate

Question 3

Ethics investigates the nature of its fundamental notions like right, duty and ---------

A)beauty
B)good
C)thought
D)none of these

Answer 3

good

Question 4

Ethics considers the ------------ of goodness.

A)standard
B)fact
C)object
D)all of these

Question 5

Morality consists of goodness, which is really an ------------- end

A)effective
B)intrinsic
C)instrumental
D)teleogical

Question 6

---------------is a collective name for voluntary actions:

A)virtue
B)conduct
C)desire
D)will

Question 7

--------------------is a sense of longing for a person or object or hoping for an outcome.

A)wish
B)instinct
C)tendency
D)desire

Question 8

'Human desire is the fundamental motivation of all human action'. Whose view is this?

A)hobbes
B)mathew arnold
C)mcdougall
D)mackenzie

Question 9

Consciousness of ----------is called an appetite.

A)a wish
B)a desire
C)a motive
D)an organic need

Question 10

Who defines an instinct as an inherited psycho physical disposition?

A)hobbes
B)mathew arnold
C)mcdougall
D)mackenzie

Question 11

The desires that predominate or continue to be effective is called:

A)wish
B)will
C)instinct
D)none of these

Question 12

------------- a conscious mental process which moves a man to act in a particular way.

A)wish
B)will
C)instinct
D)motive

Question 13

The term intention corresponds the term:

A)desire
B)purpose
C)instinct
D)none of these

Question 14

The whole willed scheme of action, which is anticipated by the doer is called:

A)desire
B)purpose
C)instinct
D)intention.

Question 15

According to Mackenzie the formal intention means the -------------------embodied in fact

A)principle
B)purpose
C)instinct
D)action

Question 16

The particular result as a realised fact is:

A)remote intention
B)formal intention
C)immediate intention
D)material intention

Question 17

The remote intention of an act is sometimes called:

A)motive
B)purpose
C)instinct
D)action

Question 18

"The motive means, of course, what moves us or causes us to act in a particular way". Who asserted this?

A)mcdougall
B)hobbes
C)mackenzie
D)mathew arnold

Question 19

A person's conduct corresponding to his ---------------------

A)motive
B)habit
C)character
D)action

Question 20

Desire is a sense of longing of a person for ----------------

A)an end
B)a action
C)an outcome
D)none of these

Question 21

Hobbes asserted that human desire is the ----------------------- of all human action.

A)fundamental intention
B)fundamental nature
C)fundamental character
D)fundamental motivation

Question 22

An intention which the agent does not definitely avows to himself is called:

A)remote intention
B)formal intention
C)unconscious intention
D)conscious intention

Question 23

When a man acts blindly without considering the end or result of his action. Such actions is called:

A)impulsive action
B)voluntary action
C)organic actions
D)none of these

Question 24

A motive is -------------------- mental process

A)an intuitive
B)a conscious
C)an unconscious
D)an immediate

Question 25

Sucking of the thump by a child is a:

A)impulsive action
B)involuntary action
C)habitual action
D)none of these