Quick Quiz

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Quick Quiz

• Cultural Relativism, Thomas Hobbes, Egoism

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Quick Quiz 1

• Cultural Diversity is what?
• The thesis that
• everyone in a culture is different.
• cultures disagree in clothing, economics, and
  religion.
• cultures disagree on moral matters.
• cultures disagree on everything.

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Quick Quiz 2

• Which of the following is a moral or ethical
  claim
• God exists.
• Honor is better than kindness.
• There is an afterlife.
• Jill loves everyone equally.

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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
• Spirits are disembodied persons.
• No one has ever seen a spirit.
• Eating your enemy destroys his or her spirit.
• People taste extremely good.

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Quick Quiz 4

• A better title for chapter 1 of Brannigan would
  be
• The Case for Ethical Diversity.
• The Culture of Diversity.
• The Culture War and how to win it.
• The Case for and against Cultural Diversity.
• The Case for and against Cultural Relativism.

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Quick Quiz 5

• Egoism is the thesis that
• Only those with a strong ego can be moral.
• Actions are right as they improve the ego wrong
  as they diminish it.
• One ought always to act from selfish motives.
• One ought always to act for ones own benefit.
• No one should ever listen to their ego.

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Quick Quiz 6

• The Psychological Egoist can brush aside the
  examples of Mother Teresa and Pam Anderson
  because
• Their actions are purely selfless and altruistic.
• Their actions are silly and embarrassing to all.
• Their actions are selfish because theyre
  motivated by guilt.
• Their actions are selfish because they benefit
  things they care deeply about.

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Quick Quiz 7

• A psychological egoist has trouble explaining
  why
• Folks dont just admit they care only about
  themselves.
• People feel guilty for not helping others.
• Everyone doesnt just steal and kill all the
  time.
• So many people are genuine altruists.

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Quick Quiz 8

• 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.
• It removes the awful constraints of having to be
  nice to others.

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Quick Quiz 9

• Thomas Hobbes wrote about the necessary structure
  of
• Morality.
• Society.
• Industry.
• Exploration.
• Religion.

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Quick Quiz 10

• 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.
• Our private thoughts and their meaning for us.

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Quick Quiz 11

• Hobbes thinks the Right of Nature allows us to
• 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.

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Quick Quiz 12

• We should follow the Laws of Nature, according to
  Hobbes, so that we
• Are good people.
• Are moral people.
• Avoid the condition of war.
• Avoid the state of nature.
• Avoid prosecution for crimes.

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Quick Quiz 13

• Why does the state of nature mean there is no
  justice or injustice?
• Because those things are unnatural.
• Because those things are legal concepts.
• Because Alls fair in love and war.
• Because there is no language in nature.
• It doesnt mean that justice and injustice exist
  in the state of nature.

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Quick Quiz 14

• Hobbes thinks American Indians are good examples
  of
• Societies that get along without a sovereign.
• Societies that show how religion can function as
  a sovereign.
• Humans in the state of nature where life is
  nasty, brutish, and short.
• Humans in the state of nature who overcome
  brutishness using religion.

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Quick Quiz Answers

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• B
• C
• E
• D
• C
• B
• A
• B
• D
• D
• C D
• C
• C