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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
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Question #21
A Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”
B Plato’s “Euthyphro”
C Kant’s “Grounds for Metaphysics of Morals”
D Plato’s Republic
Question #22
A Humans have divine nature and do not usually sin, but they make mistakes because of their lack of faith
B Humans nature is fallen and sinful from the beginning and they are unable to be good
C Humans are originally pure, but Satan makes them sinful by tempting them
D Humans are capable of being good, but because of their weakness choose to be bad
Question #23
A Rumi
B Kant
C Augustine
D Plato
Question #24
A Objects are perceived in three ways: how people perceive them relatively, how people see them emotionally and how people interpret them subjectively
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 There is no one object, but numerous, because each person sees his/her own version of the object
D 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
Question #25
A The garden of Eden
B Satan refused to bow down to newly created humans
C Satan sinned and was cast out
D Satan wanted to become God
Question #26
A Asceticism
B Bakhti Yoga
C Moksha
D Hedonism
Question #27
A Realization that moral actions will be rewarded in a higher reality
B Usefulness and talents
C Realization that all art is fake
D One’s loyalty to duty
Question #28
A Utilitarianism/Maximizing happiness for the majority
B Islam/Original Sin
C Cultural Relativism/Universal, Objective Morality
D All pairs are correct
Question #29
A Karma
B Kama
C Nirvana
D Yoga
Question #30
A You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because it will produce bad education and will increase unhappiness for the majority
B You shouldn’t cheat on your exams, because it is against the will of God
C Cheating is bad, but only in special cases you may, if it is necessary to achieve more important results.
D 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
Question #31
A The 10 commandments
B Useful Consequences of actions
C Good Will
D Cultural Norms
Question #32
A Bentham believes pleasure is pleasure, but Mill thinks higher, dignified and quality pleasure is the final goal
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 Mill thinks Happiness and Pleasure are not the final goal of human beings, but Bentham does
Question #33
A By necessity, highly metaphoric and symbolic
B Urban and political
C Unnecessary and superstitious
D Identical in all religions
Question #34
A Pluralism
B Descriptivism
C Realism
D Golden Rule
Question #35
A An action is moral if it uses human beings as means to an end
B Things are good if they produce more pleasure
C Things are good and bad in themselves and consequences do not matter
D Kant is skeptical about morality and doesn’t believe there is objective morality
Question #36
A Religious people, because it implies a belief in the emotional validity of the human soul
B Morality is different for different people and it all depends on their culture and upbringing
C Moral actions are driven by inner motivation originated from consciousness
D Materialists, because it implies a belief that moral actions are simply emotional phenomenon and are not real or valid
Question #37
A Moral statements that cannot be proven empirically, based on sensory data, are simply feelings and are meaningless
B All spiritual things are logical and therefore moral
C One should always chose the lesser of two evils
D Before taking action, one should carefully weigh “for” and “against” arguments
Question #38
A Moral choices can only be made based on inner conviction and knowledge of right and wrong.
B Humans possess innate ability to foresee upcoming events
C Human soul reincarnates in many bodies based on its karmic debt
D Humans have a soul and a spirit and both are immaterial
Question #39
A Cultural Relativist
B Utilitarianist
C Political Sceptic
D Societal Platonist
Question #40
A Bentham and Mill
B Kant and Ross
C Anselm and Augustine
D Rumi and Lewis