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Worksheetsnaturalism and non-naturalism
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What is ethical naturalism
The belief moral terms are real
the belief moral terms are knowable
the belief moral terms are reducible to natural terms
the belief moral terms are naturally intuited
What is ethical non-naturalism?
The view that ethical terms are non-natural beliefs
The view that ethical terms are special non-natural properties
The view moral terms are facts
The view moral terms are knowable
Complete the gap: Intuitionism is a form of ethical non-naturalism that claims that some of our moral judgements are ...... yet self-evident.
synthetic
analytic
matters of fact
relations of ideas
What does Uism reduce 'good' to?
pain
pleasure
utility
the majority
What does virtue ethics reduce 'good' to?
rationality
duty
happiness
flourishing
what natural property is key to both VE and Kant?
happiness
emotion
rationality
mechanicalism
Which of the following believes that morality comes from an internal God-given moral sense
Francis Hutchinson
Francis Bacon
Karl Hutchinson
Karl Bacon
What does Hobbes say all humans naturally want?
money
fame
appreciation
to survive
Which philosopher agrees withConsequentialist intuitionism?
Pritchard
Ross
Kant
Moore
Complete the gap: Goodness for Moore was a simple, ..... property which cannot be defined in terms of anything else.
understood
unanalysable
unfathomable
undervalued
Moore believes he that although he believes moral properties are incapable of proof, can say nothing about...
their origin
how we come to know them
their value
how we should apply them
To what does Moore compare 'good' to show that we know it when we see it but we cannot define it.
love
happiness
yellow
tension
Ultimately, Moore believes moral worth is determined by
positive consequences
society
negative conseqiences
rulers
Who, in opposition to Pritchard, argued that maths is nothing like morality?
Kant
Bentham
Hudson
McBain
What mistake does Pritchard believe moral philosophy often makes
beleiving moral terms are real
believing we can prove why something is our duty
believing moral terms are meaningful
believing objective moral properties can be discovered
Complete this quote from Pritchard: Our intuition that something is our duty is “immediate, in precisely the same sense in which a ................... apprehension is immediate
scientific
mathematical
theological
mystical
Because of his desire to bring about ideal goods, what do some philsophers term Moore as being?
An ideal virtue ethisist
an ideal Kantian
an ideal natural law theorist
an ideal utilitarian
What is Warnock's main objection to non-naturalism?
it avoids defining what ethical judgments are.
it misunderstands that ethical terms are not objective
it reduces belief in God
it avoids the issue of whether happiness is intrinsically good
Why, according to Warnock, can non-naturalism not help us come to a consensus on what 'right' and 'wrong' mean in reality?
because it argues morality is subjective
because it argued morality is not knowable
because it argues morality is 'self evident'
because it argues we have no duties
What does Ross call duties which are self evident to us?
First level duties
prima facie duties
self evident duties
sunum duties
Hume was an emotivist
True
False
Ayer acknowledges moral judgments do look as if they have meaning and can be analysed. But this is a trick of our language and therefore ethical concepts are...
Lies
double agents
ghosts
pseudo concepts
What does Stephenson mean when he says ethical terms have a 'magnetism'?
They express feelings
They prescribe behaviour
They try to persuade others
According to Hare, moral imperatives are...
absolute and unconditional
prescribing behaviour to others
unimportant
based on logic
If non-moral and moral principles clash which should take precedence according to Hare?
non-moral
moral
either, it doesn't matter
they can't clash
