Module 2 Quiz

The Authority of Obligation Argument for Divine Command Theory claims the following:

In order to have moral rules or moral obligations, a divine authority - God - must exist.

Suppose that it is morally wrong to act disrespectfully to one's professor or teacher. A graduate student calls his Professor "Bob" in class, as he has been instructed to do by Professor Smith. A high school student calls his Algebra teacher "Bob" in class, even though everyone in the school refers to their teachers by their last names (e.g. Mr. Smith). The fact that calling a teacher or professor by his first name is wrong for the high school student, but not wrong for the graduate student is an example of:

The Context Sensitivity Thesis

At the pool, two individuals become aware of someone who has fallen into the pool and is struggling to get out of the water. One of the individuals is morally required to jump into the pool to save the struggling swimmer because he or she is a lifeguard, but the other is not morally required to jump into the pool because he or she cannot swim. This is an example of:

The Context Sensitivity ThesisThe Context Sensitivity Thesis states that:

The Context Sensitivity Thesis states that:

The rightness or wrongness of an action is partly dependent on nonmoral facts related to the people who perform the action and/or their circumstances.

According to Divine Command Theory, God's commands are what make an action right or wrong.

True

Moral Relativism is the view that the truth of moral statements is not absolute, but is relative to the traditions, practices, or convictions of an individual or group of individuals.

True

One potential problem for Restricted Divine Command Theory is that if God does not exist, then morality would not exist either.

True

One potential problem for Restricted Divine Command Theory is that it includes the idea that God's commands are necessary for moral obligations or duties to exist

True

If God has divine rationality, then he...

does everything for a reason

According to Divine Command Theory, it would be wrong for you to kill another individual because

doing so would violate God's command.

According to Restricted Divine Command Theory, God's makes his commands based on his knowledge of what is good, which is independent from God's nature.

False

According to cultural relativism, exploiting young children (e.g. working in life-threatening conditions) is always morally wrong.

False

Cultural Relativism - in Ethics - is the view that a person's actions and/or beliefs should be understood in light of that person's own culture, rather than judged according to another culture's criteria.

False

Moral Relativism is the view that the truth of moral statements is absolute, and not based on the traditions, practices, or convictions of an individual or group of individuals.

False

One potential problem for Restricted Divine Command Theory is that it includes the idea that God's commands are unnecessary for moral obligations or duties to exist

False

According to Divine Command Theory, God's commands serve only to inform us about what is right and wrong.

False

The Euthyphro Problem is a problem for divine command theory for the following reason(s).

All of the above.

Which of the following is a problem for Cultural Relativism?

All of the above.

Cultural Relativism (unrestricted) involves the rejection of:

Both The Universality Thesis and The Single True Morality Thesis

Imagine that there is a culture (Culture A) that thinks that it is morally wrong to require a woman to stay at home and care for her children, but Culture B believes that it is a woman's duty to stay at home and care for her children. It is morally wrong for a woman who is part of Culture B to work full-time when she has children, but morally permissible for a woman who is a part of Culture A to do so according to ______________.

Cultural Relativism

According to Restricted Divine Command Theory, the source of God's commands is God's nature, which is perfectly good.

True

According to cultural relativism, forcing a child to work in coal mines at the age of 4 is morally wrong in the US today, but is morally permissible in other cultures (e.g. 18th Century England).

True

Cultural Relativism - in Ethics - is the view that cultures or societies create moral standards.

True

One problem for some arguments in favor of divine command theory is that there are other ways to account for the objective nature of morality without appealing to God.

True

If God has divine moral perfection, then he

has every moral virtue to the highest degree possible