Reference no: EM13130058

1. "Every action is either morally required or morally prohibited." This statement
(a) is true
(b) is false

2. According to Divine Command Theory, an action is morally required just in case
(a) it is said to be morally required by well-known and respected religious people
(b) God commands that the action be performed
(c) the action is approved of by the majority of theists

3. According to Divine Command Theory, God determines what is morally required in the sense that
(a) God figures out what is morally required and commands us to act accordingly
(b) God makes moral claims true just by commanding them to true
(c) both (a) and (b)

4. "I have determined that there will be an eclipse of the sun next week". In this statement, if it is true, the word 'determined' means
(a) made true
(b) figured out
(c) both (a) and (b)

5. "You morally ought do what you think you morally ought to do." This remark is
(a) implausible, if what it means is that you make it true that an action is morally required just
by thinking that it is morally required
(b) plausible, if what it means is that you should not act contrary to your own best and considered judgment, even if it should turn out that your judgment was mistaken
(c) both (a) and (b)


6. Being unmarried is ___________ for being a bachelor.
(a) a sufficient condition
(b) a necessary condition
(c) both a necessary and a sufficient condition

7. Suppose that I tell you, truthfully, that if you give me $100, I will give you an A for the course. In that case, your giving me $100 is __________ for getting an A for the course.
(a) a sufficient condition
(b) a necessary condition
(c) both a necessary and a sufficient condition

8. "Piety is prosecuting my father for murder." This statement cannot be plausibly thought of as a theory of piety, because
(a) one should never dishonor one's father by accusing him of a crime
(b) there may well be other pious acts.

9. "An act is pious if some of the gods love it and impious if some of the gods hate it." This statement is defective as a theory of piety, because
(a) one can never tell what the gods love or hate
(b) it yields contradictions, if the gods differ about what they love and hate
(c) we do not believe in the eistence of the gods which Socrates and Euthyphro believed in

10. Socrates's complaint, in the Euthyphro, about the claim that what is pious is what is loved by all the gods
(a) is that the claim is clearly false
(b) is that, even if true, it is not a yet a theory until something more is said

11. When Socrates says that, if it is true that an act is loved by the god because it is pious, then we do not have, in that claim, a theory of piety, his reason is
(a) that the claim gives, at best, a theory concerning when acts are loved by the gods
(b) that the claim is obviously false