Exam 5: Ethics and Society

A) Young people are still intellectually underdeveloped
B) Young people are inexperienced in life
C) Young people are too rash
D) Aristotle's target audience is young people

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A) Because race is socially constructed, but family isn't
B) Appiah isn't skeptical of such an analogy
C) Because the family is a unit through which we live
D) Because race is biological, and family has nothing to do with biology

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A) Helping people if they need it
B) Not treating your family any differently than a stranger
C) Doing for others as one would do for oneself
D) Giving up everything in your own life for others

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A) A vegetative part
B) An appetitive part
C) A rational part
D) None of the above

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A) The view that the racial essences of races entail certain morally relevant qualities
B) The view that there are heritable characteristics possessed by certain people that allow us to categorize them by race
C) The view that each race has a different moral status, independent of its racial essence
D) The deformation of rationality in judgment that characterizes those whose racism is more than theoretical attachment

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A) wealth is accumulated through luck alone.
B) such taxes increase the freedom of the non-wealthy.
C) such taxes increase the overall happiness of the population.
D) wealth is not pivotal to living a worthwhile life.

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A) It reduces the socially significant human differences to invisibleness and meaningless hype
B) It represents an ideological confusion, perhaps even denial
C) It actually represents an effect of racism
D) All of the above

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A) Through reason and argumentation
B) Because God is perfect, and would only have put us on Earth to be happy
C) Because each person desires her own happiness
D) None of the above

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A) A process by which we determine what is important to people
B) The comparison of pains and pleasures
C) The measuring of pains and pleasures
D) None of the above

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A) To refrain from cheating anyone out of their share of the rations
B) To refrain from profiteering
C) To refrain from hoarding unallocated food
D) All of the above

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A) Because if it isn't impossible, then it can't be too difficult
B) Because groups of people have done equally difficult things at the behest of rulers
C) Because it is just a matter of putting more effort into things
D) None of the above

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A) Because many people in America only hold racist beliefs because they were raised to do so
B) Because it affirms the moral worth of those targeted by racism
C) Because, before we can change ideology, we must reveal its problematic theoretical underpinnings
D) None of the above

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A) Our leaders were less concerned with obtaining fine things, like pearls
B) Our leaders focused more on increasing the clothes, food, and houses we have
C) We simplified the things in our lives, like our clothes and houses
D) All of the above

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A) The property of an object to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, or happiness
B) The property of an object to be useful
C) The property of an object to be harmful
D) None of the above

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A) They acquired it in accordance with the principle of justice in acquisition.
B) They acquired it in accordance with the principle of justice in transfer.
C) They acquired it from someone entitled to that holding.
D) (a) , (b) , and (c) .

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