Exam 2: Moral Arguments

The following argument violates Hume's Law: "Pluto is not a planet. Planets must be roughly spherical objects that orbit the Sun and have cleared the neighborhood around their orbit."

A hidden premise is:

Hume's Law says that you cannot have a cogent moral argument without at least one normative premise.

What are the five kinds of deontic claims introduced in Chapter 2? Explain what each kind of claim means.

Which one of the following is NOT an example of a moral claim?

Aesthetic claims are normative claims.

A moral argument is an argument that a particular kind of action is morally obligatory.

Descriptive claims are about how the world is, was, or would be in certain circumstances.

The following argument commits the fallacy of circular reasoning: "Physician-assisted suicide violates the Hippocratic Oath that all doctors take when they finish medical school. Therefore, physician-assisted suicide is morally wrong."

All normative claims are moral claims.