Ethics quiz

More questions about Ethics

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1. 1 Easy

   What do you call a choice where every option breaks a moral duty?

   Answer: Moral dilemma

   Why: Sartre's classic case is a young man torn between fighting the Nazis and staying to care for his dependent mother.

2. 2 Medium

   What power does the Ring of Gyges give in Plato's Republic?

   Answer: Invisibility

   Why: The story tests whether anyone would stay just if they could never be caught or punished.

3. 3 Hard

   Which word did Kant use for the Golden Rule in a footnote?

   Answer: trivial

   Why: Kant's objection: by that rule, a criminal could argue against the very judges who punish him.

4. 4 Easy

   What lies on either side of a virtue in Aristotle's golden mean?

   Answer: Two vices

   Why: The middle is personal: Aristotle notes that a portion too small for the athlete Milo would be too big for a beginner.

5. 5 Medium

   Where is the drowning child in Peter Singer's thought experiment?

   Answer: A shallow pond

   Why: For Singer, distance changes nothing: a starving child far away has the same claim on us as the one in the pond.

6. 6 Hard

   Ayer's emotivism is nicknamed after which two cheers?

   Answer: Boo-hurrah

   Why: Because emotivism holds that ethical statements express feelings rather than facts, saying stealing is wrong is treated as shouting 'Boo to stealing!'