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Assignment:

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following statements does not express a possible advantage of contractarianism

• Contractarianism explains the objectivity of morality.
• Contractarianism does not expect any disagreement among the contractors.
• Contractarianism explains why it is sometimes acceptable to break moral rules.
• Contractarianism explains why everyone should be fair to others.

2. What themes are being discussed in the Lesson about virtue ethics?

• practical wisdom and moral exemplars
• moral understanding
• All the other answers are correct.
• virtues and vices

3. With regard to virtue ethics, the problem of contradiction occurs

• when moral models are improperly defined
• when moral relativism takes over
• when moral models are properly defined
• when two virtuous people disagree about a solution to the given problem

4. An identification of utilitarianism with hedonism may

• be considered a significant advantage of utilitarianism
• remind one of the social contract theory
• remind one of the ethics of care
• involve the is-ought fallacy

5. Which of the following statements is correct?

• Moral nihilism is more readily applicable to real life situations than utilitarianism but less than Kantian ethics.
• All of the other answers are correct.
• Moral nihilism is not readily applicable to real life situations.
• Moral nihilism is more readily applicable to real life situations than Kantian ethics but less than utilitarianism.

6. The ethics of care

• offers crfiticism against abstract thinking
• believes that connectedness is often more important than rights
• All the other answers are correct
• values cooperation over competition

7. Who said that intellectual pleasure is much more worthy than pleasure derived from food and drink?

• John Rawls
• John Stuart Mill
• Immanuel Kant
• Jeremy Bentham

8. Who is not being extensively discussed in the instructional notes about feminist ethics?

• Kohlberg
• Gilligan
• Freud
• Kant

9. Who among the following thinkers is least responsible for the prejudice about women?

• Kant
• Plato
• Aquinas
• Rousseau

10. Which of the following statements may be considered as a challenge for the etics of care?

• The role of emotions needs further clarifications.
• Rejecting any moral rule as supreme makes it difficult to solve moral conflicts.
• Downgrading impartiality has its own costs.
• All the statements may be considered challenging for the ethics of care.