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Practice QuizChapter 5

Moral Knowledge

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1. The difference between moral intuition and knowledge is BEST expressed by which of the following: a. moral knowledge is learned whereas moral intuition is not.

b. both concern the formulation of rules, but intuition concerns particular rules, while knowledge is concerned with principles.

c. moral knowledge has no affective component, whereas intuition does.

d. moral intuition is more the result of enculturation and tutoring through traditions and institutions, while moral knowledge is the result of reflective and deliberate reasoning processes that seek to justify a principle on purely rational grounds.

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Rationale: Moral intuitions are also learned, althoughthe learning process may be different in each.

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Rationale: Moral knowledge can be about both rulesand principles. One may also have moral intuitionsabout principles.

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Rationale: although moral intuitions may have moreaffective features than knowledge, strong beliefs gainedthrough moral knowledge will also have affectiveaspects.

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2. Justifying an action by appealing to its legality or that it is a belief held by most people, would be a kind of reasoning reflective of which level in Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning:

a. preconventional

b. conventional

c. post-conventional

d. intuitive

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Rationale: Justifications associated with the pre-conventional stage are usually related to personalpunishment and reward criteria

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Rationale: Justifications associated with the postconventional stage often involve looking beyondexisting laws or moral conventions for justification.

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Rationale: there is no such stage in Kohlberg’s theory.

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3. According to S. Carter, a person with integrity must meet all of the following conditions EXCEPT:

 a. a person must have a sense of what is right and

wrong, a moral code.

b. a person must have a code which conforms to the conventional code of the group.

c. a person must be willing to act on one's moral code, even at personal cost.

d. a person must publicly advocate this moral code.

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Rationale: this is an essential condition of integrity. Tohave integrity, one must have a moral code to standby.

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Rationale: this is an essential condition of integrity. Tohave integrity, one must be willing to stand by one’scode, even if it appears to disadvantage or endangeryou.

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Rationale: this is an essential condition of integrity. Tohave integrity, people must know what you stand for.

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A. Egoism (consequentialist)B. Egoism (deontological)C. Libertarian PrincipleD. The Categorical ImperativeE. The Dialogic PrincipleF. Tit-for-Tat PrincipleG. UtilitarianismH. The Natural LawI. The Golden Rule

5. Act as if the maxim of your action were to become a universal law.

1. I am a law unto myself.

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6. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

7. Do what benefits you regardless of whether it harms or benefits others.

2. Do good, avoid evil.

8. Act to create the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

3. Return good with good, and harm with harm.

4. Do unto others as all of you can agree to do to one another.

9. Do what benefits you so long as it does not harm another.

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Egoism (consequentialist)

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The Categorical Imperative

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Tit-for-Tat Principle

Utilitarianism

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