Which maxims or laws necessarily get our respect? federal laws…

Which maxims or laws necessarily get our respect? federal laws…

Which maxims or laws necessarily get our respect?federal lawsstate lawscity lawsuniversal laws

According to Kant, what is something that we never want to forfeit?

intelligence

sympathy

compassion

a good will

Accoding to an anthropological study at the University of Arizona, racism comes from

the caveman.

the prejudiced elite.

a bad rearing.

a sense of selfishness.

Consider the following: I am a cloud. You are a basket. Therefore I am a cloud, and you are a basket. What is such an argument called?

Modus Ponens

Modus Tollens

Universal Instantiation

Ampersand In

Can I universalize the maxim “make a false promise?”

yes

no

It depends on the circumstances.

It depends on the culture.

Consider the following: All cryptocurrencies are clouds in my house. What is such an expression called?

Universal Quantification

Universal Instantiation

gaseous digital currency

meteorological ethereum

Immanuel Kant ‘s objection to Anselm’s Ontological Argument is based on the intuition that existence is not

occurrence in reality.

subsistence.

a divine property.

a quality or predicate.

What is the first formulation of the Categorical Imperative?

I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should be a sympathy driven rule.

I am always to act otherwise than so that I could sometimes will that my maxim should become a universal law.

I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a principle of utility.

I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

Who might object to Thompson’s claim that we need not remain connected to the ailing (and famous) violinist?

a virtue ethicist

a Utilitarian

Thompson herself

a liberal

Utility is the property of an action just in case the action tends to produce

the betterment of the elite.

an aristocratic hierarchy.

happiness/pleasure for the majority.

a sense of duty.

Consider the following argument. If I run, then I am still. It is not the case that I am still. Therefore, it is not the case that I run. What is it?

Modus Ponens

Ampersand In

Universal Instantiation

Modus Tollens

According to Kant, what should I tell the Nazi at the door?

a lie

the truth

a falsiloquium

the location of the those who are hidde

What kind of an expression is “All octopi are pterodactyls”?

UNiversal Instantiation

Universal Quantification

Universal Dinosaur Legislation

none of the above

Do some Utilitarians consider animals as a part of the moral community?

Yes

No; we need to experiment on them.

Yes, but only dolphins and monkeys

Yes, but only human beings

Can a benevolent person ever be racist or bigoted?

no

yes

only toward his/her own

only toward the lower classes

According to David Hume, the moral action tends to generate

happiness/pleasure for the majority.

the elevation of the species.

the elevation of the self.

eudaimonia.

Gaunilo’s objection to Anselm’s Ontological Argument involves a perfect

island.

deity.

set of all sets.

set of all sets that do not contain themselves.

According to Kant, is it ever okay to lie?

No

Yes

It depends on the circumstances.

It depends on the culture.

According to Kant, why does the good will sense that it must act in accordance with a particular maxim?

because of the consequences that the application of the maxim would produce.

because the good will respects it

because the maxim has utility

because of sympathy

As the sheriff thinks about the horrors of an impending race riot, and the police cannot find the rapist, what would the sheriff do to Jimmy the Drunk, if the sheriff is a utilitarian?

frame him

advise him to go to Alcoholics Anonymous

Ask JImmy for help on the case

join Jimmy for dinner, in the spirit of racial conviviality