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Meta-Ethics 11DP Ethics

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the prefix "meta" mean?

a)

"The shape of"

b)

"Change/changing"

c)

"The Nature of"

d)

"Bahasa Indonesia teacher"

2.

What's moral realism?

a)

The belief that morals are expressions of emotion.

b)

The belief that moral terms refer to something mind independent and objective

c)

The belief that morals are contrary to nature.

d)

The belief that morals aren't "natural".

3.

What's moral anti-realism?

a)

The belief that morals are expressions of emotion.

b)

The belief that morals aren't real or objective.

c)

The belief that morals are real and objective

d)

The belief that morals are contrary to nature.

4.

Cognitivism claims...

a)

...that moral language expresses propositions which can be known.

b)

... that moral language doesn't express beliefs, but some other state.

c)

... that moral language is motivating.

d)

...that moral properties are mind-independent.

5.

Non-cognitivism claims...

a)

...that moral language is motivating.

b)

...that moral language expresses beliefs.

c)

...that moral language express objectively unknowable propositions.

d)

...that cognitivists are non-human.

6.

What is moral naturalism?

a)

The idea that moral terms are mind-independent, natural facts.

b)

The idea that moral terms are mind-independent,non-natural facts.

c)

The idea that moral terms are mind-dependent.

d)

The idea that moral terms are expressions of emotion.

7.

For Bentham, 'right' is reducible to...

a)

pain

b)

preferences

c)

the majority

d)

pleasure

8.

What, according to Aristotle, is humanity's greatest natural quality?

a)

happiness

b)

rationality

c)

courage

d)

cleverness

9.

What two qualities does naturalism have?

a)

realist, non-cognitivist

b)

anti-realist, cognitivist

c)

anti-realist, non-cognitivist

d)

realist, cognitivist

10.

The main consequentialist intuitionist

a)

Gregory Edward Moore

b)

George Edward Moore

c)

Graham Edward Moore

d)

Grant Edward Moore

11.

Complete Moore's quote: when I call such propositions Intuitions, I mean merely to assert that they are incapable of ..........; I imply nothing whatever as to the manner or ........ of our cognition of them. YOU NEED TO CHOOSE TWO ANSWERS

a)

Proof

b)

verification

c)

source

d)

origin

12.

According to Pritchard, 'obligatoriness' is only known through...

a)

intuition

b)

reason

c)

logic

d)

happiness

13.

Which fallacy occurs when we use a term with more than one meaning in a misleading way?

a)

the fallacy of composition

b)

the naturalistic fallacy

c)

the fallacy of equivocation

d)

the linguistic fallacy

14.

Hume's Law is otherwise known as...

a)

the Naturalistic Fallacy.

b)

the Fallacy of Composition.

c)

not studying philosophy on Mondays and Tuesdays.

d)

the Is/Ought Fallacy.

15.

Which fallacy occurs when assume that just because each individual desires something, that we will desire that thing for each other?

a)

the fallacy of composition

b)

the naturalistic fallacy

c)

the fallacy of equivocation

d)

the linguistic fallacy

16.

Emotivism is sometimes known as the..

a)

sensitive people's theory of ethics.

b)

Boo-Hoorah theory of ethics.

c)

Boohoohoo theory of ethics.

d)

Baabaa Black Sheep theory of ethics.

17.

Prescriptivism differs from Emotivism in that

a)

the latter emphasises commands

b)

the former emphasises expressions of emotion

c)

the former emphasises commands

d)

the latter emphasises telling others how they ought to behave

18.

Ethical relativism states that

a)

There are moral facts

b)

We should tolerate other cultures' morals

c)

Moral values depend on culture

d)

There are no moral facts

19.

Nihilism means..

a)

there are no moral facts and no moral truths.

b)

God is dead but humans decide moral truths

c)

there moral truths but they depend on culture

d)

morality is just an expression of emotion

20.

Click two anti-realist theories which claim that morals are invented by humans

a)

Emotivism

b)

Prescriptivism

c)

Relativism

d)

Nihilism