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WorksheetsEthics Prep: Lectures 1-3
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 6mins
Zhandos turned 18 this year. He started thinking of questions on how to do life: how to cook good food, how to pay rent and taxes, or how to make doctor appointments without his parents. That’s some real Ethical questions.
Yes
Not really
“Harry Styles looks bad with red hair." And this is a moral judgement.
Yes
No
“People starve if they don’t get enough food.” This is a descriptive statement.
Yes
No
“Government ought to not let people starve and do everything they can to provide enough food.” This is a normative statement.
Yes
No
Ethical inquiry means to search for the right way of life and seek it in the religious texts and scriptures; looking for universal truth.
True
False
Ethical inquiry leads us to building moral theory.
What rhymes with moral theory?
bibbidi bobbidi
floral fairy
coral pearl
this rhymes clearly
Roughly, two philosophers with different approached said that philosophy is 1) outside us 2) deep inside us. Is that statement true?
True
False
If philosophy was a penguin with two legs. The two legs would be called:
Timia and Fibula
Right flipper and Left flipper
Analysis and Argument
Right leg and left wing
“Jim is my enemy. But also Jim is his own worst enemy. And enemy of my enemy is my friend. So Jim is my friend.” (“The Office” TV show).
This is an argument.
True
False
"My friend puts (.) at the end of her texts today. People put (.) when they are angry. So, she must be angry with me."
is that a sound argument?
yes
no
“Either me or Karen is an imposter because we’re the only ones left in the game. I’m not the imposter, so... Dang it, Karen.”
This is which deductive argument form?
modus ponnens
modus tollens
disjunctive syllogism
hypothetical syllogism
"If you want to approach me and ask me some question, you can just ask the question. Don't ask me “Can I ask you a question?”, and other meta questions like that" (credit to some Telegram blogger). This is an analogy for …
ethics and meta-ethics
meta-ethics and ethics
ethics and ethics
meta ethics and meta ethics
“If I say that I like ice cream, I like ice cream, but the reality can change along with my subjective preference. If I say that it is okay to not pay for ice cream, it doesn’t change the thing that it’s not okay. There are objective moral truths that exist independent of our opinion." And that is …
moral realist would say that
error-theorist would say that
anti-realist would say that
moral relativist would say that
Imagine someone says, “People who say that it’s bad to beat people under any circumstances, it is their moral truth, it is what they believe in for some reason. But it’s not my moral truth. I think it’s okay to beat people, if they deserve it.” That person would be:
anti-realist
non-objectivist
subjectivist
Who claims that morality doesn’t exist at all?
error-theorists
anti-realists
Who would claim that nobody owes anything to anyone?
error-theorists
anti-realists
“All I want in life is to feel joyful, rested, and energized all the time, and to never feel sad, angry, regretful, or afraid. Then I would be happy, and that would be my eternal and ultimate goal and benefit.”
- who said that
That’s a classic utilitarian
That’s a hedonist
That’s an ultimate utilitarian
That’s an eternal utilitarian
Critique of hedonism:
that’s degrading a human’s life purpose
that’s not representative of real human wishes
that’s impossible to achieve
there’s no critique
