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PHIL MISC

Module 1: Chapter 1 Quiz

1)The judgements that we make in ethics are normative judgements.

2. Reason is not used by philosophers making ethical decisions.

3. Questions about the nature of ethics (i.e. the nature of the field itself) are actually matters of metaethics.

4. Ethics is a field of study that studies what people actually do, not what they should or should not do.

5. Plato believed that ethics could be taught.

6. Deontological ethics are rooted in moral                       .

7. Sociology and psychology are two areas in which people make                            judgements.

8. A systematic exposition of a particular view about what is the nature and basis of good or right is known as a(n)                                               .

9. Consequentialist theories of ethics focus on the                    of actions.

10. Which is not an area in which we make normative judgments.