PHI 220 quiz 4

Ayer believes that utterances which are neither empirical nor analytic are;

"literal nonsense" and therefore neither true nor false.

Contemporary virtue ethics most closely resembles the position of which of these ethical systems?

Ancient Greek ethics

Which of the following philosophers is usually associated with meta-ethics?

Ayer

Philippa Foot is an ancient Greek philosopher.

False

Stevenson believes that someday we will definitely have a scientific solution to all ethical disagreements.

False

Which of these lists of philosophers is given in the correct order in which they lived?

Kant, Mill, Moore, Ayer

Moore believes that we can just know what goodness is.

True

Plato and Philippa Foot agree that the virtues are important for humans to be well-balanced

True

Foot says that virtues are "correctives." Which of the following best describes what she means?

We need virtues to correct the various vices we all have.

According to A.J. Ayer, the expression, "You were wrong in stealing that money," has the same meaning as which of the following?

You stole that money

G.E. Moore says that goodness is:

a simple, unanalyzable property

Descriptivists are philosophers who believe that ethical terms such as "good":

describe ethical properties possessed by something;

For Stevenson, the main kind of disagreement found in ethics is:

disagreement in attitude

Stevenson's "disagreements in belief" have to do with:

facts which can be checked

The approach to ethics known as "Meta-ethics" is:

primarily a 20th century movement.