Multiple Choice Quiz

The morality that Gauthier describes as facing a foundational crisis essentially involves:

enlightened egoism.

pure altruism.

justified constraint.

prima facie duties.

Gauthier objects to Hume's characterization of morality as rooted in sympathy on the grounds that:

desire is irrelevant to morality.

it cannot account for why morality demands that we curb our desires for those we don't care about.

it cannot account for the role of reason in ethics.

it is trivial.

In response to the claim that morality needs no justification, Gauthier:

claims that we have an alternative mode for justifying our choices and actions.

argues that because foundationalism is true, morality does need a justification.

argues that because foundationalism is false, morality does need a justification.

agrees.

Gauthier claims that something can be relevant to practical justification only if it relates to:

well-being and suffering.

fairness.

the agent's self-conception.

the agent's self-interest.

Gauthier claims that if we could find an explanatory role for moral properties:

this would still not explain why we should obey moral constraints.

this would save morality from the foundational crisis.

moral justification would be reducible to deliberative justification.

moral properties would play a similar role to religious properties.

Gauthier claims that the foundational crisis of morality should be resolved by:

finding an explanatory role for moral properties.

accepting a religious foundation for morality.

rejecting the idea of deliberative justification.

finding a place for morality within the framework of deliberative justification.

Gauthier claims that the best test of the justifiability of our existing moral practices is:

whether they secure actual agreement.

whether they secure hypothetical agreement.

whether they maximize utility.

whether they can be proven by pure reason.

Gauthier claims that the content of a hypothetical agreement is determined by appeal to:

persons' desire for fairness.

persons' desire to avoid exploitation.

the equal rationality of persons.

the equal intelligence of persons.

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