Multiple Choice Quiz

According to Kant's approach to moral philosophy, ethics is based on:

the consequences of one's action.

sympathy.

a social contract.

practical reason.

Korsgaard argues that:

motivational skepticism is always based on content skepticism.

content skepticism is always based on motivational skepticism.

motivational skepticism and content skepticism are inconsistent with one another.

motivational skepticism and content skepticism are in fact identical positions.

According to externalist theories of ethics:

moral judgment implies the existence of a motive.

it is possible to have a moral judgment without being motivated to act on it.

moral authority derives from rules imposed by others, rather than from one's own feelings.

our primary moral obligation is to improve the lives of others.

Korsgaard's "internalist requirement" states that:

practical reasons necessarily motivate anyone who accepts them.

practical reasons must be capable of motivating rational persons.

our motivations always supply us with practical reasons for action.

practical reasons bear no necessary relation to motivation.

According to Korsgaard, being practically rational requires the ability to:

perform rational mental operations about the means to your ends.

transmit motivations via reasoning.

both a and b.

neither a nor b.

Williams defines internal reasons as:

reasons that are grounded in one's subjective motivational set.

reasons that are grounded in self-interest.

reasons that are grounded in objective moral requirements.

reasons that are grounded in the norms of institutions.

Korsgaard claims that the internalism requirement:

refutes some ethical theories.

refutes content skepticism.

makes a psychological demand on ethical theories.

all of the above.

Korsgaard maintains that the appeal of Kant's approach to ethics comes from:

not having to postulate special ethical properties in the world to provide ethics with a foundation.

not having to postulate special faculties in the mind to provide ethics with a foundation.

both a and b.

neither a nor b

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