Multiple Choice Quiz

According to Sidwick moral judgments express:

self-evident propositions.

sentiments of approbation and aversion.

the will of God.

none of the above.

Sidwick calls the faculty of moral cognition:

Intuition.

Moral Sense.

Conscience.

Reason.

Sidwick argues that legal sanctions are insufficient to make immoral behavior always imprudent because:

laws are not designed to punish immorality.

secret crimes sometimes go undiscovered.

legal punishments are too weak to deter immorality effectively.

none of the above.

According to Sidwick, Reason aims to discover principles that are:

mutually consistent.

self-evident.

clear and precise.

all of the above.

Although Sidwick acknowledges that self-evident principles do exist, he claims that they:

are too abstract to guide action.

are too difficult for most people discover.

are too abstract for people to understand.

pertain to logic and mathematics rather than morality.

According to Sidiwick, utilitarians should impartially consider the happiness of:

all human beings.

future generations.

non-human beings.

all of the above.

Regarding commonsense moral rules, Sidwick claims that utilitarianism:

broadly supports them.

can resolve conflicts between them.

can help make them more precise.

all of the above.

According to Sidwick, utilitarians must confront the paradoxical conclusion that:

it might be wrong, on utilitarian grounds, to advocate for utilitarianism publicly.

utilitarianism demands a degree of impartiality incompatible with human nature.

utilitarianism is correct in principle, but too difficult to adopt in practice.

all of the above.

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