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In terms of what did G. E. Moore define goodness? |
| | A) | Pleasure. |
| | B) | Power. |
| | C) | Personal affection and aesthetic enjoyment. |
| | D) | Tricky! He claimed that it can't be defined. |
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What do moral judgments do, according to the emotivists? |
| | A) | Guide conduct. |
| | B) | Assert facts. |
| | C) | Express emotion and encourage others to feel the same way. |
| | D) | Create value. |
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What is not true of John Rawls's original position? |
| | A) | It leads to an entitlement view of justice. |
| | B) | It is a hypothetical, imaginary situation. |
| | C) | It involves dropping a veil of ignorance. |
| | D) | It assumes that people are rational and self-interested. |
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What is Rawls's position on the just distribution of income and wealth in a society? |
| | A) | It should be unequal unless a more equal distribution would benefit everyone. |
| | B) | It should be equal unless an unequal distribution would benefit everyone. |
| | C) | It should always be equal. |
| | D) | It should be based on effort, talent, and accomplishments. |
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Why does Robert Nozick believe that any state that goes beyond the minimal state is unjust? |
| | A) | Such a state fails to achieve communitarian consensus on the good. |
| | B) | Such a state necessarily involves redistributive taxation that violates persons' natural entitlement rights. |
| | C) | Such a state would not be agreed to by rational, self-interested individuals in a fair initial bargaining situation. |
| | D) | This is a trick question since Nozick is an anarchist libertarian who doesn't think that any state is just. |
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What is a thick moral argument, for Michael Walzer? |
| | A) | Moral argument that takes into account the actual, particular details of the association or culture involved. |
| | B) | Moral argument that focuses on abstract, universal questions of value, obligation, and justice. |
| | C) | Moral argument that is dense and hard to understand. |
| | D) | Systematic rather than piecemeal moral argument. |
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Which of the following is the political philosophy based on respect for established institutions and traditions? |
| | A) | conservatism |
| | B) | communism |
| | C) | facism |
| | D) | socialism |
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The attempt to understand the sources and criteria of moral value judgments is known as: |
| | A) | metaethics |
| | B) | normative ethics |
| | C) | deontological ethics |
| | D) | prima facie duties |
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Which of the following is not one of the three main philosophical causes looked at when studying ecological crises? |
| | A) | anthropocentrism |
| | B) | democratic socialism |
| | C) | patriarchalism |
| | D) | authoritarian social structures |
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What is the name of the influential publication by John Rawls? |
| | A) | Killing and Starving to Death |
| | B) | Anarchy, State, and Utopia |
| | C) | A Theory of Justice |
| | D) | After Virtue |
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