Transcript Quick Quiz

Cultural Relativism, Thomas Hobbes, Egoism
Quick Quiz 1
Cultural Diversity is what?
The thesis that:
a) everyone in a culture is different.
b) cultures disagree in clothing, economics,
and religion.
c) cultures disagree on moral matters.
d) cultures disagree on everything.
Quick Quiz 2
Which of the following is a moral or ethical
claim:
a) God exists.
b) Honor is better than kindness.
c) There is an afterlife.
d) Jill loves everyone equally.
Quick Quiz 3
Which of the following is a non-moral but
morally relevant fact that could, if known
by both parties, help clear up the
culturally based disagreement about
eating your enemies:
a)Spirits are disembodied persons.
b)No one has ever seen a spirit.
c)Eating your enemy destroys his or her
spirit.
d)People taste extremely good.
Quick Quiz 4
A better title for Chapter 1 of Brannigan
would be:
a)The Case for Ethical Diversity.
b)The Culture of Diversity.
c)The Culture War and how to win it.
d)The Case for and against Cultural
Diversity.
e)The Case for and against Ethical-Cultural
Relativism.
Quick Quiz 5
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 6
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 guilt.
d)Their actions are selfish because they
benefit things they care deeply about.
Quick Quiz 7
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 8
A main perk of Ethical Egoism is:
a) It gives you good reasons to act morally.
b) It removes all guilt from morality.
c) It creates godlike humans free of
subservience to others.
d) It removes the awful constraints of having
to be nice to others.
Quick Quiz 9
Thomas Hobbes wrote about the necessary
structure of:
a) Morality.
b) Society.
c) Industry.
d) Exploration.
e) Religion.
Quick Quiz 10
Hobbes thinks that we humans are
reducible to:
a) Our moral and spiritual identities.
b) Our fear of death and hope of eternal life.
c) Our passions as they conflict with reason.
d) Our brains and their deterministic
operations.
e) Our private thoughts and their meaning
for us.
Quick Quiz 11
Hobbes thinks the Right of Nature allows us
to:
a) Kill whenever we feel we have good
reason.
b) Kill whenever the government permits it.
c) Kill whenever necessary to save our
family.
d) Kill whenever necessary to save our life.
e) Kill whenever necessary to defend the
commonwealth.
Quick Quiz 12
We should follow the Laws of Nature,
according to Hobbes, so that we:
a) Are good people.
b) Are moral people.
c) Avoid the condition of war.
d) Avoid the state of nature.
e) Avoid prosecution for crimes.
Quick Quiz 13
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 14
Hobbes thinks some parts of America
illustrate:
a) 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.
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