Midterm Exam

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A  Kant’s “Grounds for Metaphysics of Morals” 

B  Plato’s “Euthyphro” 

C  Plato’s Republic

D  Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”

A  Humans have divine nature and do not usually sin, but they make mistakes because of their lack of faith 

B  Humans are capable of being good, but because of their weakness choose to be bad

C  Humans are originally pure, but Satan makes them sinful by tempting them 

D  Humans nature is fallen and sinful from the beginning and they are unable to be good 

A  Augustine 

B  Plato

C  Rumi

D  Kant

A  There is no one object, but numerous, because each person sees his/her own version of the object

B  Objects have three versions: The physical, which is the real, the imitation through art, which is the shadow and the imitation of the imitation, which is the third

C  Each object can have three versions: the one depicted by painters, art, imitators, the second – the actual physical, and the third, which is the only original, true idea of the object

D  Objects are perceived in three ways: how people perceive them relatively, how people see them emotionally and how people interpret them subjectively 

A  The garden of Eden 

B  Satan wanted to become God 

C  Satan sinned and was cast out  

D  Satan refused to bow down to newly created humans  

A  Moksha 

B  Hedonism 

C  Bakhti Yoga 

D  Asceticism 

A  Realization that moral actions will be rewarded in a higher reality 

B  One’s loyalty to duty 

C  Usefulness and talents 

D  Realization that all art is fake 

A  Utilitarianism/Maximizing happiness for the majority  

B  Islam/Original Sin

C  All pairs are correct 

D  Cultural Relativism/Universal, Objective Morality 

A  Nirvana 

B  Karma 

C  Kama

D  Yoga 

A  You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because if cheating on exams was the moral norm, there would be no exams, so it doesn’t make sense

B  Cheating is bad, but only in special cases you may, if it is necessary to achieve more important results.

C  You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because it is against the will of God

D  You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because it will produce bad education and will increase unhappiness for the majority

A  Useful Consequences of actions

B  Good Will 

C  The 10 commandments 

D  Cultural Norms

A  Mill thinks Happiness and Pleasure are not the final goal of human beings, but Bentham does 

B  There is no difference, they both believe in the same principle of pleasure and happiness as the final goal

C  Bentham believes utilitarianism must maximize pleasure and happiness, but Mill believes in supernaturalism and intuitionism  

D  Bentham believes pleasure is pleasure, but Mill thinks higher, dignified and quality pleasure is the final goal

A  By necessity, highly metaphoric and symbolic  

B  Urban and political 

C  Unnecessary and superstitious 

D   Identical in all religions 

A  Descriptivism 

B  Golden Rule 

C  Pluralism 

D  Realism 

A  An action is moral if it uses human beings as means to an end

B  Things are good and bad in themselves and consequences do not matter 

C  Things are good if they produce more pleasure  

D   Kant is skeptical about morality and doesn’t believe there is objective morality 

A  Materialists, because it implies a belief that moral actions are simply emotional phenomenon and are not real or valid 

B  Religious people, because it implies a belief in the emotional validity of the human soul 

C  Moral actions are driven by inner motivation originated from consciousness 

D  Morality is different for different people and it all depends on their culture and upbringing 

A  Moral statements that cannot be proven empirically, based on sensory data, are simply feelings and are meaningless  

B  One should always chose the lesser of two evils 

C  Before taking action, one should carefully weigh “for” and “against” arguments 

D  All spiritual things are logical and therefore moral 

A  Humans have a soul and a spirit and both are immaterial 

B  Humans possess innate ability to foresee upcoming events 

C  Human soul reincarnates in many bodies based on its karmic debt 

D  Moral choices can only be made based on inner conviction and knowledge of right and wrong. 

A  Utilitarianist 

B  Societal Platonist 

C  Political Sceptic 

D  Cultural Relativist 

A  Anselm and Augustine 

B  Bentham and Mill

C  Kant and Ross

D  Rumi and Lewis