Transcript Quick Quiz

Thomas Hobbes, Egoism
Quick Quiz 1
Ethical Egoism is the thesis that:
a)Only
those with a strong ego can be
moral.
b)Actions are right as they improve the ego,
wrong as they diminish it.
c)One ought always to act from selfish
motives.
d)One ought always to act for one’s own
benefit.
e)No one should ever listen to their ego.
Quick Quiz 2
The psychological egoist can brush aside
the examples of Mother Teresa and Pam
Anderson because:
a)Their
actions are purely selfless and
altruistic.
b)Their actions are silly and embarrassing to
all.
c)Their actions are selfish because they’re
motivated by fear or guilt.
d)Their actions are selfish because they
benefit things they care deeply about.
Quick Quiz 3
A psychological egoist has trouble
explaining why:
a)Folks
don’t just admit they care only
about themselves.
b)People feel guilty for not helping others.
c)Everyone doesn’t just steal and kill all the
time.
d)So many people are genuine altruists.
Quick Quiz 4
A main perk of Ethical Egoism is:
It gives you good reasons to act morally.
It removes all guilt from morality.
It creates godlike humans free of
subservience to others.
d) It removes the awful constraints of having
to be nice to others.
a)
b)
c)
Quick Quiz 5
Thomas Hobbes wrote about the necessary
structure of:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Morality.
Society.
Industry.
Exploration.
Religion.
Quick Quiz 6
Hobbes thinks that we humans are
reducible to:
Our moral and spiritual identities.
Our fear of death and hope of eternal life.
Our passions as they conflict with reason.
Our brains and their deterministic
operations.
e) Our private thoughts and their meaning
for us.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Quick Quiz 7
Hobbes thinks the Right of Nature allows us
to:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Kill whenever we feel we have good
reason.
Kill whenever the government permits it.
Kill whenever necessary to save our
family.
Kill whenever necessary to save our life.
Kill whenever necessary to defend the
commonwealth.
Quick Quiz 8
We should follow the Laws of Nature,
according to Hobbes, so that we:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Are good people.
Are moral people.
Avoid the condition of war.
Avoid the state of nature.
Avoid prosecution for crimes.
Quick Quiz 9
Why does the state of nature mean there is
no justice or injustice?
a)Because those things are unnatural.
b)Because those things are legal concepts.
c)Because ‘All’s fair in love and war’.
d)Because there is no language in nature.
e)It doesn’t mean that; justice and injustice
exist in the state of nature.
Quick Quiz 10
Hobbes thinks some parts of America
illustrate:
Societies that get along without a
sovereign.
b) Societies that show how religion can
function as a sovereign.
c) Humans in the state of nature where life
is nasty, brutish, and short.
d) Humans in the state of nature who
overcome brutishness using religion.
a)
Quick Quiz Answers
1. D
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. D
8. C
9. C
10. C
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