Pellissippi State Community College

PHIL MISC

Module 2: Chapters 2 and 3 Quiz

1)The idea that what is morally right and wrong is up to each individual to decide for himself or herself is known as moral relativism.

2. Someone who believes in objective right and wrong but is not an absolutist may be willing to take situational differences into account when making a moral decision. For example, he or she might consider stealing wrong, but think it less wrong or even permissible if one is starving and the only way to get food is to steal it.

3. The type of relativism that claims that what is morally right and wrong differs from society to society is known as                                         

4. Psychological egoism is a descriptive judgement. Thus, much of the debate around it does not concern whether or not it is morally right, but whether or not it is                                       

5. The moral theory that claims that people should act only out of one's own interests and for one's own benefit is known as                                            

6. Ethical egoists tend to be proponents of an economic theory known as                   

7. In the story of the Ring of Gyges, Glaucon believes that people are only moral because they are afraid of                                            

8. Socrates agreed with Glaucon's assessment that all people would behave like Gyges if they had no risk of getting caught while violating moral principles.

9. Ethical egoists generally (but not always) believe in psychological egoism.

10. Moral pluralists reject the idea that more than one principle can be used to evaluate an action.