CHAPTER 6- Summary & Quiz - Reasoning with Principles &Counterexamples– Ethics & Contemporary Moral Issues Reading
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Chapter 6. Reasoning with Principles and Counterexamples
True/False Section [5 Questions]
1. In his argument, Julian Savulescu relies on the intermediate moral principle that parents may not give their children unfair advantages over other children.
2. Don Marquis's “future of value” principle entails that when someone dies, it is not bad for the person who dies, but only for his or her loved ones.
3. If an intermediate moral principle implies the intuitively correct answer about a lot of cases, that's a reason to think the principle is correct.
4. If it seems obvious that a person should act a certain way in a particular scenario, but an intermediate moral principle implies they should act a different way, then the scenario is (or at least seems like) a counterexample to the principle.
5. The only way to respond to a counterexample to a principle is by abandoning the principle altogether.
Multiple Choice Section [10 Questions]
1. Which of the following is an example of an intermediate moral principle?
2. According to Chapter 6, which of the following is one way in which intermediate moral principles can help you reason about moral issues?
3. What intermediate moral principle do Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift introduce to help clarify parents' obligations toward their children?
4. Which of the following does Stephen Nathanson offer as a counterexample to the principle of “an eye for an eye”?
5. Which of the following is most plausibly considered a counterexample to the principle that it is always wrong to steal?
6. Which of the following explains the idea of a “counterintuitive implication” of a moral principle?
7. What is the point of coming up with a thought experiment in which a particular principle has a counterintuitive implication?
8. What principle is Robert Nozick trying to test in his thought experiment about one person vaporizing another with a ray gun?
9. How does Mencius respond to his disciple's alleged counterexample to the principle that unrelated men and women should not touch each other?
10. Which of the following is one of the ways that Chapter 6 identifies as an appropriate response to an apparent counterexample? [Show Less]