Metaethics and Ethical Theories Quiz

What is the branch of philosophy that studies morality, or right and wrong behavior?

• Ethics

• Aesthetics

• Metaphysics

• Epistemology

What is the study of the very foundations of morality itself called?

• Normative Ethics

• Descriptive Ethics

• Metaethics

• Applied Ethics

What is the belief that there are moral facts, in the same way that there are scientific facts?

• Moral Relativism

• Moral Antirealism

• Moral Realism

• Moral Subjectivism

Which metaethical view argues that moral propositions don’t refer to objective features of the world at all?

• Moral Absolutism

• Moral Realism

• Moral Relativism

• Moral Antirealism

What is the belief that moral statements can be true and false, but they refer only to people’s attitudes, rather than their actions?

• Moral Antirealism

• Moral Subjectivism

• Moral Relativism

• Moral Realism

Which ethical theory relies on the starting assumption that all beings share a common desire to seek pleasure and avoid pain?

• Virtue Ethics

• Deontological Ethics

• Utilitarianism

• Natural Law Theory

What is the principle that many ethical theories agree on, which states that it’s wrong to cause unjustified suffering?

• Principle of Beneficence

• Principle of Non-maleficence

• Principle of Autonomy

• Principle of Utility

What is the difference between descriptive and normative cultural relativism?

• Descriptive cultural relativism is the belief that people’s moral beliefs differ from culture to culture, while normative cultural relativism says that it’s not our beliefs, but moral facts themselves that differ from culture to culture.

• Descriptive cultural relativism is the belief that people’s moral beliefs differ from culture to culture, while normative cultural relativism says that people’s moral beliefs are the same across all cultures.

• Descriptive cultural relativism is the belief that moral facts differ from culture to culture, while normative cultural relativism says that people’s moral beliefs differ from culture to culture.

• Descriptive cultural relativism is the belief that moral facts differ from culture to culture, while normative cultural relativism says that it’s not our beliefs, but moral facts themselves that differ from culture to culture.

Which metaethical view argues that there are no moral facts?

• Moral Relativism

• Moral Absolutism

• Moral Realism

• Moral Antirealism

What is the ethical theory that relies on the starting assumption that God created the universe according to a well-ordered plan?

• Utilitarianism

• Divine Command Theory

• Virtue Ethics

• Deontological Ethics