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Formative Assessment 1: Philosophy, Ethics, and Moral Foundation

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Ethics is understood as the language of morality.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Being "ethical" is a usual connotation that one is blameworthy.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

A narrower sense of "ethical" describes a set of rules or conventions within a general field.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

A narrow sense of ethics allows us to have the same sets of behavior for the different parts of our lives.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

A narrow view of ethics allows no questions to be asked about the validity of the law.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Eminent domain is a legal idea that an individual can override legally the community.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The law is unquestionably understood as moral

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Religious commitment aligns with natural reason.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Philosophy, especially Ethics, aligns with supernatural reason.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Religion has its dogmatic assumptions.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Conscience is contextual

a)

True

b)

False

12.

The voice we hear as conscience can reinterpret a certain action in differing moral assumptions.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Conscience is a crucial tool for primary ethical intuition.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

This ethical project sees that ethics could be reduced to a long history of cooperation among human beings as "thinking animals"

a)

Sociobiology

b)

Cognitivism

c)

Non-Cognitivism

d)

Foundationalism

15.

This ethical project is usually connected with the theistic worldview.

a)

Natural Law

b)

Foundationalism

c)

Non-Cognitvism

d)

Emotivism

16.

This ethical project checks on the moral anchors that people have.

a)

Foundationalism

b)

Emotivism

c)

Cognitivism

d)

Non-Cognitivism

17.

This ethical project checks the justification of moral language in terms of its internal consistency.

a)

Foundationalism

b)

Coherentist

c)

Natural Law

d)

Sociobiology

18.

This ethical project checks the fundamental moral unit that the individual is ought

to always promote his or her own good.

a)

Ethical Egoism

b)

Foundationalism

c)

Coherentist

d)

Relativist

19.

This ethical project justifies that there are no fixed points in ethics and all claims must be expressions of preference.

a)

Foundationalism

b)

Coherentist

c)

Relativism

d)

Cognitivist

20.

This ethical project accepts the claim that there are certain acceptable conventions within a community and look at the differences between different societies.

a)

Foundationalism

b)

Coherentist

c)

Cultural Relativism

d)

Natural Law

21.

This ethics focuses on the actual behavior as a statement with no values projected.

a)

Descriptive Ethics

b)

Metaethics

c)

Applied Ethics

d)

Postmodernism

22.

This focuses on the nature of our moral utterances.

a)

Metaethics

b)

Feminism

c)

Postmodernism

d)

Descriptive Ethics

23.

This emphasizes that moral statements make knowledge claims.

a)

Cognitivist

b)

Non-Cognitivist

c)

Postmodernist

d)

Descriptive

24.

This emphasizes that moral talk can be done through scientific demonstration.

a)

Naturalism

b)

Emotivism

c)

Prescriptivism

d)

Realism

25.

It accepts that moral statements can be determined as true or false, but contends they arise from a human sensibility that we all share, which enables us to determine right from wrong.

a)

Naturalism

b)

Intuitionism

c)

Emotivism

d)

Prescriptivism

26.

It focuses on the belief that moral language expresses or exhorts only our personal attitudes and is incapable of expressing objective facts about the world.

a)

Natural Law

b)

Cognitivism

c)

Non-Cognitivism

d)

Postmodernist

27.

It would deny that there are universal moral facts, and believe that morality is a question of personal reactions, which may vary significantly.

a)

Prescriptivism

b)

Emotivism

c)

Feminism

d)

Intuitionist

28.

Our responses and utterances not only express a personal view,

but they serve to encourage others to think the same way as well.

a)

Naturalism

b)

Intuitionist

c)

Emotivism

d)

Prescriptivism

29.

There is an objective truth to moral claims.

a)

Realism

b)

Anti-realism

c)

Emotivism

d)

Prescriptivism

30.

This asserts that there is no objective moral reality.

a)

Realism

b)

Anti-Realism

c)

Feminism

d)

Post-modernist

31.

It deals with setting norms or standards.

a)

Descriptive Ethics

b)

Normative Ethics

c)

Feminism

d)

Postmodernist

32.

It tries to explain what is good and why that is so, and what makes an act right.

a)

Ethical Theory

b)

Applied Ethics

c)

Relativist

d)

Coherentist

33.

It makes explicit arguments about how we should behave in specific cases.

a)

Ethical Theory

b)

Applied Ethics

c)

Consequentialist

d)

Virtue-based theory

34.

This looks to the potential results of our actions to determine whether they are right or wrong.

a)

Consequentialist

b)

Virtue-based theory

c)

Deontology

d)

Applied Ethics

35.

This focuses on the motives and Intention.

a)

Consequentialist

b)

Virtue-based theory

c)

Deontology

d)

Postmodernist

36.

It does not present direct principles or rules that would indicate what the best course of action is in particular cases but instead tells us what matters most is developing a worthy character.

a)

Value-based theory

b)

Consequentialist

c)

Deontology

d)

Postmodernist

37.

Life should be purposeful according to this ethical concept.

a)

Teleological

b)

Consequentialist

c)

Virtue-based theory

d)

Emotivism

38.

This confronted many of the assumptions that have been presented in the ethical canon.

a)

Feminist

b)

Consequentialist

c)

Virtue-based theory

d)

Teleology

39.

Each of us constructs our own narrative based on our lives, and the function of ethical language is not so much to argue as it is to present a story that makes sense to others.

a)

Post-modernist

b)

Modernist

c)

Teleology

d)

Vitue-based Theory

40.

Academic theoretical discourse has a privileged truth-telling function and they look to the experience or phenomena of what goes on when we use ethical language.

a)

Post-modernist

b)

Modernist

c)

Consequentialist

d)

Virtue-based Theory