PHIL101 Graded Exam #3
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Topic 12: Evil and the Existence of God
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According to Aristotle, human happiness consists of:
Select one:
a. pleasure. b. danger.
c. pain.
d. devotion.
According to Epicurus, which desires may be occasionally satisfied when doing so does
not lead to discomfort or pain?
Select one:
a. desires that are both natural and necessary
b. desires that are natural but not necessary c. desires that are neither natural nor necessary
d. All of these answers are correct.
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Which of the following ideas was central to Thomas Hobbes's philosophy of values?
Select one:
a. Good and evil simply denote that which a person desires or hates.
b. Human happiness consists of pleasure and reason.
c. Moral evil is a case of misdirected love. d. A natural law governs all morality, and human behavior must conform to it.
Which of the following is considered a moral evil by Plato?
Select one:
a. willful disobedience of God
b. unnaturalness
c. ignorance of the good d. desiring what is known to be bad
According to Plato, _____ is the virtue that obtains when all elements of the soul function
as they should in obedience to reason.
Select one:
a. temperance
b. justice c. wisdom
d. courage
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According to John Stuart Mill, why should we seek to raise the general happiness rather
than just our own?
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a. Our own happiness coincides with the general happiness. b. God commands us to further the general happiness.
c. No one can rationally will that everyone ignore the general happiness.
d. By its very nature, morality singles out no one for preferential treatment.
For Nietzsche, who or what is the source of ethical truth?
Select one:
a. God
b. the Superman c. the ruler of a state
d. slaves
According to Immanuel Kant, principles of morality can only be ascertained by:
Select one:
a. reason. b. God.
c. consequences.
d. nature.
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According to St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, which of the following is true of
natural law?
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a. When there is a conflict between natural law and human law, human law takes
precedence.
b. It is the eternal law of God as it applies to man on earth. c. It is a mutual agreement between people, not between people on one hand and the
state on the other.
d. It is the laws and statutes of society that are derived from man's understanding of
human law.
_____ is the idea that the legitimacy of the state and the principles of sound justice derive
their legitimacy from a societal agreement.
Select one:
a. Eternal law b. Communism
c. Contractualism
d. General will
In which of the following was the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws
unconstitutional established?
Select one:
a. The Declaration of Independence
b. The original Constitution
c. The Bill of Rights
d. Marbury
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Which of the following did Harriet Taylor support?
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a. The toleration of nonconformist thought and lifestyles
b. The belief that virtually all differences between men and women are natural c. The view that social and political reform concerning women should be limited to
giving them the vote
d. The view that consequences don't matter when it comes to determining the
rightness or wrongness of our acts, rules, or institutions
John Stuart Mill believed that:
Select one:
a. one has God-given natural rights.
b. one should seek personal happiness.
c. one should seek general happiness. d. one should seek happiness for others.
Identify a true statement about Marcuse's philosophical position.
Select one:
a. He perceived a weakening of the integration of the working classes into society. b. He believed that morality means creating something and then making money from
it.
c. He developed the ideas of ethical egoism, laissez-faire capitalism, and individual
rights with his philosophy of Objectivism.
d. He believed that taking from the rich without compensation and giving to the poor is
never just.
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The attempt to understand the sources and criteria of moral value judgments is known as:
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a. metaethics. b. normative ethics.
c. deontological ethics.
d. prima facie duty.
Which of the following is the political philosophy based on the desire to preserve past
social and political traditions and practices?
Select one:
a. conservatism b. communism
c. fascism
d. socialism
Why does Robert Nozick believe that any state that goes beyond the minimal state is
unjust?
Select one:
a. Such a state fails to achieve communitarian consensus on the good.
b. Such a state violates persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things.
c. Such a state would not be agreed to by rational, self-interested individuals in a fair
initial bargaining situation.
d. Nozick is an anarchist libertarian who doesn't think that any state is just.
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Which of the following best explains Mary Daly's stance about the image of God the
Father?
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a. It is an image that appropriately expresses the power and awe of God.
b. It is an image that needs to be replaced with the image of God the Mother.
c. It perpetuates the artificial polarization of human qualities built into the traditional
sexual stereotypes. d. It is an image that only has negative effects among less sophisticated thinkers.
St. Thomas Aquinas's first three proofs of God's existence are versions of what today is
called the:
Select one:
a. ontological argument.
b. cosmological argument. c. teleological argument.
d. moral argument.
What did Anselm believe about proving God's existence?
Select one:
a. You could do it using the concept of God as the greatest being conceivable. b. God's existence follows from his definition in just the way that the existence of the
most perfect island follows from its definition.
c. If you want to prove God's existence, you must first look at how the world is.
d. The existence of God can only be known by mystical experience.
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