Chapter 2 Self-Practice Quiz

. A moral theory explains why

one event causes another.

an action is prudent.

an action is effective or ineffective, or why a person is reasonable or unreasonable.

an action is right or wrong, or why a person or a person's character is good or bad.

. Consequentialist moral theories insist that the rightness of actions depends solely on

the actions' consequences or results.

the actions' intrinsic nature.

the agent's motives.

the agent's desires.

. Feminist ethics is an approach to morality aimed at

establishing a core set of moral principles.

advancing women's interests and correcting injustices inflicted on women through social oppression and inequality.

advancing women's interests through a unique application of Rawls's theory.

defining women's perspectives as superior to men's perspectives.

. Act-utilitarianism is the view that the rightness of actions depends

solely on the character of the agent.

solely on the relative good produced by individual actions.

on both the relative good produced by individual actions and the conformity to rules.

on a good will.

. Kant says that through reason and reflection, we can derive our duties from

the categorical imperative.

hypothetical imperatives.

experience.

a calculation of consequences.

. Natural law theory is the view that right actions are those that conform to moral standards discerned in nature through human reason.

True

False

. Natural law tradition resolves dilemmas through the principle of utility.

True

False

. Rawls's equal liberty principle states that each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all.

True

False

. Principlism is the theory that right actions are those sanctioned by a single-rule theory.

True

False

. In the ethics of care, the heart of the moral life is feeling for and caring for those with whom you have a special, intimate connection.

True

False

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