kant,O'neill, Foot and Hobbes

O'neill claims that the maxim of both being frank with everyone and being a loyal friend involves

A. an inconsistency prior to universalizing

O'Neill claims that the maxim of becoming a slave involves

B. a contradiction in conception

Foot conceives of rationality as essentially involving

a. identifying the means to one's ends

O'Neill claims that Kant's universality test is primarily a test of:

a. moral worth..

According to Kant, moral laws are:

a. necessary and apply to all rational beings..

foot concluded that

a. neither moral judgement nor statements about etiquette are categorical imperative

Foot claims that a person who rejects morality because he sees no reason to obey its rules is guilty of

a. villainy but not inconsistency

Hobbes describes felicity as

b. a continual progress of desire from one object to another.

According to Kant, morality requires us to:

b. act only on maxims that we can will to become universal laws..

O'Neill claims that for Kant, a maxim is:

b. an underlying principle by which we guide our more specific intentions..

Kant's universality test aims to ground an ethical theory in notions of

b. consistency and rationality

According to Kant, laws of nature are laws according to which __________, and laws of freedom are laws according to which __________.

b. everything will happen; everything ought to happen.

Hobbes defines injustice as:

b. failure to perform one's covenant..

foot claims that a person is just

b. if he performs just actions because he loves truth and liberty

according to Foot, sentences enunciating the rules of etiquette are typically used

b. nonhypothetically

Kant claims that the moral law is given to each person by:

b. one's own will..

foot recommends that we

b. see ourselves as volunteers fighting for liberty and justice

The principle that requires agents to intend any indispensable means for whatever they fundamentally intend is called:

b. the Principle of Hypothetical Imperatives.

In Hobbes's view, to say something is good is to say that:

b. you desire it

According to Foot, it is generally supposed that Kant established beyond doubt:

c. That moral judgment are categorical imperative

In Hobbes's view, a law of nature is:

c. a principle, known by reason, which forbids one from doing something destructive of one's life..

Hobbes claims that all of the laws of nature can be summarized in the precept

c. do not do to another what you would not have done to yourself

O'Neill argues that Kant's Formula of the Universal Law:

c. generates interesting ethical conclusions without relying on considerations about what people want..

According to Kant, the supreme principle of morality is:

c. synthetic and a priori..

According to Kant, the moral worth of an action depends on:

c. the maxim that is acted on..

According to O'Neill, the intuitive idea behind using a universality test to establish moral acceptability is that:

c. we should not single ourselves out for special consideration or treatment..

Kantian hypothetical imperatives are grounded in:

d. All the above desire, prudence and one's long-term projects

By "animal motion," Hobbes means:

d. all voluntary behavior

According to Kant, the basis of morality is the concept of:

d. freedom..

Kant claims that the natural purpose of reason is to:

d. produce a good will..

According to Hobbes, the right of nature is:

d. the liberty to use one's powers to preserve one's life..

According to Hobbes, without a common power to keep them in awe humans would exist in a state of:

d. war of every man against every man.

According to Foot, Kant established that moral requirements are hypothetical imperatives.

false

According to Foot, it is always irrational to act immorally.

false

According to Kant, pure moral philosophy is partly empirical.

false

According to Kant, that we have freedom of the will can be demonstrated by experience.

false

According to Kant, whether an act is morally right depends on the consequences of the act.

false

Foot claims that one can refute a claim about what one morally ought to do by pointing out that doing so would not serve one's interests or desires

false

Hobbes argues that some things are absolutely good and others absolutely evil

false

Hobbes claims that humans are naturally vastly unequal, in both body and mind

false

Hobbes claims that we are required to keep our covenants, even when there is no common power to enforce them

false

Kant claims that moral obligations are hypothetical imperatives.

false

O'neill argues that achieving consistency in action becomes difficult only when we introduce a universality test

false

O'neill claims that knats universality test covertly relies on considerations about what people desire

false

according to o'neill, any intention on which an agent acts is a maxim

false

o'neill claims that if an agent exhibits tendencies in opposing directions, then her underlying intentions are inconsistent

false

Foot asserts that common opinion agrees with Kant that one must accept the rules of morality whatever one's interests or desires.

true

Foot claims that a person can act morally even if she does not act from the motive of duty.

true

Hobbes claims that each person should be content with only so much liberty as they allow others

true

Hobbes states that all voluntary motion begins in the imagination

true

Kant argues that there is a single supreme principle of morality.

true

according to O'neill, a world of non benevolent persons is conceivable without contradiction

true