Exam 3: Morality and the Moral Life

An important criterion of adequacy for moral theories is consistency with our conscience.

Aristotle believes that simply studying philosophy will make one virtuous.

Mill declares that it is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than

A principle is a prima facie principle if

Alan Dershowitz believes that torture can never be morally justified.

What are the premises of the cultural differences argument? Assess the truth of the premises.

Assess the merits of ethical egoism. Is it an adequate moral theory? Why or why not?

Utilitarianism, Kantianism, and principlism are all similar in that that each consist of a single moral principle.

Held favors the liberal individualist concept of a person.

Advocates of principlism admit that the process of weighing different moral principles is unreliable and subjective.

Held says that the ethics of care

Aristotle believes that moral virtues can best be acquired through

In the moral life, feelings are

Cultural relativism and ethical subjectivism imply that nothing is intrinsically

According to cultural relativism, some cultures' moral codes are better than others.

The utilitarian approach to a shortage of medical supplies during a pandemic would be to

Critics say that to avoid portraying God as arbitrary, we must assume that God issues commands based on

By the lights of cultural relativism, cross-cultural moral disagreement is possible.

Virtues are

Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the great forebears of feminist thought.