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A  Plato’s Republic

B  Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”

C  Kant’s “Grounds for Metaphysics of Morals” 

D  Plato’s “Euthyphro” 

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

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

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

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

A  Rumi

B  Kant 

C  Augustine 

D  Plato

A  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

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

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

D  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

A  Satan sinned and was cast out  

B  Satan wanted to become God 

C  The garden of Eden 

D  Satan refused to bow down to newly created humans  

A  Hedonism 

B  Asceticism 

C  Moksha 

D  Bakhti Yoga 

A  One’s loyalty to duty 

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

C  Realization that all art is fake 

D  Usefulness and talents 

A  Utilitarianism/Maximizing happiness for the majority  

B  All pairs are correct 

C  Islam/Original Sin

D  Cultural Relativism/Universal, Objective Morality 

A  Karma 

B  Kama

C  Yoga 

D  Nirvana 

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

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

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

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

A  Useful Consequences of actions

B  Good Will 

C  Cultural Norms

D  The 10 commandments 

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

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

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

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

A  By necessity, highly metaphoric and symbolic  

B   Identical in all religions 

C  Urban and political 

D  Unnecessary and superstitious 

A  Descriptivism 

B  Golden Rule 

C  Realism 

D  Pluralism 

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

B  Things are good if they produce more pleasure  

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

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

A  Moral actions are driven by inner motivation originated from consciousness 

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

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

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

A  All spiritual things are logical and therefore moral 

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

C  One should always chose the lesser of two evils 

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

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 

A  Utilitarianist 

B  Political Sceptic 

C  Cultural Relativist 

D  Societal Platonist 

A  Anselm and Augustine 

B  Kant and Ross

C  Rumi and Lewis 

D  Bentham and Mill