N5 Prelim Revision Quiz

What is the greatest happiness principle?

• The right action is that which leads to the greatest pleasure (or happiness) for everyone

• The right action is that which leads to the greatest pleasure (of happiness) for yourself

• The right action is that which leads to the greatest pleasure (or happiness) for the greatest number

• The right action is that which prevents the most pain for the greatest number

What is meant by consequentialism?

• That consequences are sometimes relevant when deciding which action is right

• That consequences play no role in deciding which action is right

• That the intended consequences are the only relevant things to consider when deciding if an action is right

• That the consequences are the only relevant things to consider when deciding if an action is right

What is meant by Hedonism?

• That consequences are to be evaluated only in terms of the pleasure/pain they produce

• That consequences are to be evaluated mostly in terms of the pleasure/pain they produce

• That consequences are never to be evaluated in terms of the pleasure/pain they produce

What is meant by Equity?

• That a pleasure/pain is of the same value regardless of who is experiencing it

• That everyone should have an equal amount of pleasure/pain

• That even if people experience pleasures differently, these pleasures are nevertheless equally valuable

• That every component of the Hedonic Calculus is of equal importance

What best describes scepticism?

• The view that knowledge is impossible because our beliefs are always false

• The view that knowledge is impossible because our beliefs are never justified

• The view that knowledge is impossible because you are dreaming

• The view that Descartes cogito cannot be known

Which two of these arguments are arguments for scepticism?

• The Infinite Regress of Justification

• Descartes' Deceiving God Argument

• Descartes' argument that the cogito is a certain truth

• The argument that knowledge requires justified true belief.

What is the conclusion of Descartes' Sense Argument?

• You should never trust your senses

• You should always trust your senses

• You should not trust your senses completely

• You should not trust your senses when they deceive you

What is the conclusion of Descartes' Dreaming Argument?

• You cannot trust any knowledge gained from the senses when you are dreaming.

• You cannot trust any knowledge at all because you might be dreaming.

• You cannot trust any knowledge gained from the senses because you might be dreaming.

• There is no way to distinguish dreams from reality

What is the conclusion of Descartes' Deceiving God Argument?

• That we cannot trust knowledge gained from reason

• That we cannot trust any knowledge gained from the senses

• That we cannot trust any knowledge at all, neither knowledge gained from reason nor from the senses

• That we cannot trust our knowledge that the cogito is a certain truth

What is meant by a qualitative account of pleasures?

• That more intense pleasures are of a higher quality than less intense pleasures

• That there are different types of pleasures

• That there are different types of pleasures and these have different values

• That there are different types of pleasure and these have the same values