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100
What is the name of the utilitarian who described the "Greatest Happiness Principle"?
Who is John Stuart Mill?
100
What did the shadows represent in "The Allegory of the Cave"?
What is false knowledge?
100
What is the eastern philosophy that promotes action through inaction?
What is Taoism?
100
True or false: The etymology of the word "deontology" is "deont" meaning "duty" and "logy" meaning "study of".
What is true?
100
True or false: A utilitarian is concerned with intentions behind, and consequences of, an action.
What is false?
200
This man wrote the Tao Te Ching.
Who Is Lao Tzu?
200
Rene Descartes is most associated with this philosophy.
What is rationalism?
200
Which of the following describes virtue theory: agent-based, duty-based, consequence-based?
What is agent-based?
200
What is categorical imperative?
What is a universal moral law?
200
Which contemporary utilitarian argues that eating meat is wrong because the pleasure and pain of animals and human beings is equal?
Who is Peter Singer?
300
John Locke is most associated with what philosophical school?
What is empiricism?
300
This philosophy was born from the Tao Te Ching.
What is Taoism?
300
Plato's virtue theory has the most in common with what eastern philosophy that we covered?
What is Confucianism?
300
When should a categorical imperative be violated?
What is never?
300
What is the biggest drawback about a utilitarian's reliance on consequences to determine correct actions?
What is that consequences are never exactly known?
400
David Hume is most associated with what philosophical school?
What is empiricism?
400
Name all three normative ethical theories we have learned.
What is virtue theory, deontology, and utilitarianism?
400
The moral precepts of this Eastern philosophy are similar to the Bible's Ten Commandments.
What is Buddhism?
400
Of the philosophers we have studied, this person is most associated with deontology (full name needed).
Who is Immanuel Kant?
400
What does it mean if a choice has more utility than another choice?
What is that it results in more pleasure than pain.
500
What was Rene Descartes most powerful philosophical tool?
What is doubt?
500
Rationalists believe in _________ knowledge while empiricists believe knowledge is gained through __________.
What is innate, experience?
500
What is wuwei?
What is action through inaction?
500
A deontologist uses these to determine the rightness or wrongness of a moral decision.
What is the intentions or motives behind the decision?
500
What is the difference between a higher pleasure and a lower pleasure?
What is that a higher pleasure appeals to the intellect, while a lower pleasure only appeals to the senses.