Deck 11: Morality

Question 1

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ an Edouard Manet painting deemed immoral when first exhibited

Answer 1

11

Question 2

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ subject of historical play A Man for All Seasons

Answer 2

14

Question 3

____ 5. According to the doctrine of laissez-faire, prices should never be controlled by the government.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ For a stable, orderly society, there had to be an all-powerful ruler.

Question 5

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ challenged his teacher about why people did the right thing

Question 6

____ 2. Ayn Rand was not a Marxist.

Question 7

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ born into a communist society but defected to the West

Question 8

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ believed entrepreneurs should be free to charge whatever theycould get

Question 9

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ The Fountainhead

Question 10

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ used the Veil of Ignorance to show that altruism is not alien to human nature

Question 11

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ "The greatest good for the greatest number"

Question 12

____ 3. Machiavelli was imprisoned for leading a rebellion against Lorenzo de Medici.

Question 13

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ individual rights as opposed to majority rule

Question 14

____ 1. The Enraged Musician by William Hogarth is a painting showing a violinist confronting his arch rival.

Question 15

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ profession of the ideal ruler, according to Plato

Question 16

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ poet whose vivid images of hell have influenced how many of us picture it

Question 17

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ wrote a vast poem "to justify the ways of God to man"

Question 18

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ Niccolo Machiavelli

Question 19

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Glaucon
3. utilitarianism
4. Shakespeare
5. John Milton
6. Howard Roark
7. Ayn Rand
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. Immanuel Kant
10. Plato
11. Olympia
12. capitalism
13. philosopher
14. Thomas More
15. Karl Marx
16. Dante
17. The Prince
18. John Rawls
19. altruism
20. Adam Smith
21. Jeremy Bentham
22. John Stuart Mill
___ We know what Socrates believed because of him.

Question 20

____ 4. Jeremy Bentham insisted that self-interest was wrong.

Question 21

____ 10. John Rawls believed that to have a strong society, it was necessary to have a permissive ruler.

Question 22

If the protection of itself were the sole basis for a society's morality, which of the following laws would such a society want passed?

A) required wearing of seat belts
B) limiting the number of calories a restaurant could serve any one customer
C) required full-coverage auto insurance
D) required voting in national elections
E) illegality of suicide

Question 23

____ 12. The philosopher Kant believed that the ability to understand moral issues does not have to be taught.

Question 24

____ 6. Bentham and Kant agreed on one point: the role of duty toward one's parents in all moral decisions.

Question 25

Laissez-faire can be translated as

A) easy come, easy go.
B) let us work together.
C) find another solution.
D) justice for all.
E) allow to do.

Question 26

____ 11. Jeremy Bentham originated the concept of moral geography.

Question 27

____ 7. Mohammed regarded both Moses and Jesus as true prophets.

Question 28

____ 14. Altruism means having a greater concern for others than for oneself.

Question 29

A network of related values on which moral choices are based is called a

A) moral system.
B) political system.
C) moral imperative.
D) modest proposal.
E) capitalist society.

Question 30

According to John Stuart Mill, "the sole end for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will" is to

A) prevent harm to others.
B) make each action a universal rule binding on all.
C) encourage actions based on reason alone.
D) measure the numerical value of pleasure against the numerical value of pain.
E) prevent chaos should a society rise up in rebellion.

Question 31

The commandment to turn the other cheek was foreshadowed in

A) Plato's Republic.
B) the Torah.
C) Paradise Lost.
D) the Buddhist moral treatise Dhammapada.
E) The Fountainhead.

Question 32

Jonathan Swift proposed ironically that the way to solve the problem of starvation among the children of the poor is to

A) declare a civil uprising against the British government.
B) provide free health clinics throughout rural Ireland.
C) lower the legal age at which a child could work.
D) eat newborn children.
E) require education up to age twelve in order to lower the number of families on welfare.

Question 33

____ 8. In their famous debate about what constitutes a just man, Socrates and Glaucon do not agree on a single issue.

Question 34

____ 15. John Stuart Mill believed that we need government to counterbalance the impact of our irresponsible general population.

Question 35

Which of the following pairs believed that all people are driven by self-interest?

A) Bentham and Machiavelli
B) Bentham and Mill
C) Milton and Terkel
D) Socrates and Plato
E) Kant and Sartre

Question 36

____ 9. Studs Turkel wrote about morality in the world of work.

Question 37

The famous essay "The Virtue of Selfishness" was written by

A) John Stuart Mill.
B) Henry David Thoreau.
C) Ernest Hemingway.
D) Jeremy Bentham.
E) Ayn Rand.

Question 38

Name by which Hobbes called his ideal state:

A) utopia
B) republic
C) commonwealth
D) regressive
E) progressive

Question 39

In Plato's vision of a state in which justice prevails, the ruler is

A) elected democratically.
B) female.
C) The Philosopher King.
D) Leviathan.
E) Glaucon.

Question 40

____ 13. In Frank O'Connor's short story "The Idealist," the young hero finally decides to lie to avoid punishment.

Question 41

Often said to be the hero of Paradise Lost:

A) Satan
B) God
C) Gabriel
D) Eve
E) the Serpent

Question 42

Term used by Kant to identify our inborn capacity to comprehend experience:

A) intuition
B) insight
C) divisions
D) categories
E) phenomenology

Question 43

An intuitive classification of actions and choices as morally acceptable or unacceptable is

A) Kant's categorical imperative.
B) Rawls's veil of ignorance.
C) Milton's Paradise Lost.
D) the new moral relativism.
E) capitalism.

Question 44

His name has become synonymous with people who hold a cynical view of the masses.

A) Bentham
B) Sartre
C) Mill
D) Lorenzo de Medici
E) Machiavelli

Question 45

The veil of ignorance has to do with

A) the custom by which bridegrooms are not allowed to see their brides until the marriage is concluded.
B) wiping out all awareness of who we are and where we come from.
C) the government's making important decisions behind closed doors.
D) an investigation into scores on the same test in two different states.
E) the tendency of some school boards to ignore diminishing scores in standardized tests.