Multiple Choice Quiz

Nagel claims that prior to reflection, it seems that people cannot be morally assessed for:

actions that affect only themselves.

their character.

what is due to factors beyond their control.

actions that do not violate anyone's rights.

The control condition claims:

it is morally wrong to ever lose control of oneself.

it is morally wrong to try to control the lives of (adult) others.

one cannot be morally assessed for what is due to factors outside one's control.

one cannot be morally blamed for taking control of one's own life.

Resultant luck concerns:

the kind of person one is.

the kind of problems and situations one faces.

the way one's projects turn out.

the way one is determined by antecedent circumstances.

Nagel claims that most skeptical arguments:

are the result of applying arbitrarily stringent standards.

are based on linguistic confusions.

are logically self-refuting.

grow from the consistent application of ordinary standards.

Circumstantial luck concerns:

the kind of person one is.

the kind of problems and situations one faces.

the way one's projects turn out.

the way one is determined by antecedent circumstances.

According to Nagel, the problem of moral luck arises because:

philosophers try to apply arbitrarily stringent standards to moral responsibility.

the self is threatened with dissolution by the absorption of its acts into the class of events.

our moral theories are hopelessly off track.

our theories of human action are hopelessly off track.

Nagel claims that the problem of moral luck is closely connected to the problem of:

the existence of God.

freedom of the will.

psychological egoism.

universals.

One example of bad constitutive moral luck would be:

a person who is by nature envious and ungenerous.

a person who lived in Nazi Germany in 1940.

a person who drives drunk and hits a child.

all of the above.

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