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<strong>Ashford</strong> <strong>PHI</strong> <strong>208</strong> <strong>Final</strong> <strong>Exam</strong><br />

<strong>Answers</strong> (<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2018</strong>)<br />

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<strong>Ashford</strong> <strong>PHI</strong> <strong>208</strong> <strong>Final</strong> <strong>Exam</strong> <strong>Answers</strong> (<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2018</strong>)<br />

1. James Rachels points out that when passive euthanasia is employed on infants, they typically die of:<br />

2. Held uses this example to talk about the political distinctions that separate men and women in the<br />

realms of the public and the private<br />

3. According to Nagel, to which of the following groups of people is hostility most appropriately aimed?<br />

4. Kant argues that when I find someone in need:<br />

5. According to Held, the following have been aligned with femininity in the history of Western thought<br />

6. Which would be an example of a hypothetical imperative, according to Kant’s Groundwork for the<br />

Metaphysics of Morals:<br />

7. Which of the following would be an idea shared both by the teacher (Kevin Kline) from the clip of The<br />

Emperor’s Club, and by either MacIntyre or Aristotle (or both)?<br />

8. According to Nagel, which of the following may be permitted by absolutism, at least in some<br />

circumstances?<br />

9. Glaukon thinks that deep in our hearts we all believe that<br />

10. Reason is a faculty that we have that:<br />

11. According to Kant, the value of a good will lies in:<br />

12. Leon Kass argues that the primary responsibility of physicians is to:<br />

13. Which of the following does not describe how egg-laying hens are treated in factory farms?<br />

14. What happens to the offspring of dairy cows, according to the video “Meet Your Meat”?<br />

15. Hill uses this technique in the middle of the article to examine ideas about the human’s place<br />

within nature:<br />

16. In the excerpt from Plato’s Republic, Glaukon suggests that people are good<br />

17. According to John Stuart Mill, utilitarianism takes into account the happiness of:<br />

18. Which of the following would be an expression of rule utilitarianism, rather than act<br />

utilitarianism?<br />

19. What does Nel Noddings say about rates of violent crime among men and women?<br />

20. Which of the following makes it difficult to calculate the utility of an act<br />

21. Michael Walzer argues that in the unique world of war, both morality and authority are<br />

22. Michael Walzer argues that there is a radical distinction between war and civil life because<br />

23. What moral theory does Jeremy Bentham (with whom Singer seems to agree) endorse?<br />

24. Robinson describes integrity as a virtue that has the<br />

25. According to Leon Kass, the drive to legalize euthanasia can be largely attributed to<br />

26. In Hill’s example, what did the wealthy eccentric man do to his yard after he bought a new<br />

house?


27. In what way would Hill’s notion of “self-acceptance” correspond to Aristotle’s conception of<br />

eudaimonia?<br />

28. Thomas Nagel argues that all rules of engagement should be governed by the utilitarian<br />

principle that<br />

29. Tom Regan’s view of animals is that<br />

30. Glaukon seems to think that people are<br />

31. What is speciesism?<br />

32. According to the videos, in which is it legal to commit assisted suicide?<br />

33. What does Tom Regan say is the source of inherent value in an individual?<br />

34. According to Mill, utilitarian morality holds that:<br />

35. Leon Kass argues that legalizing euthanasia will:<br />

36. According to Rachels, active euthanasia involves:<br />

37. According to Kant, persons:<br />

38. Kant explains that respect for a person is:<br />

39. Robinson argues that honor<br />

40. The conventional doctrine is endorsed by:<br />

41. What, according to Tom Regan, is the contractarian approach to ethics?<br />

42. According to Thomas Nagel’s article, “War and Massacre,” the absolutist position that creates<br />

no problems of interpretation is<br />

43. What does Peter Singer say about the history of liberation movements?<br />

44. Kant argues that we should never use people as a means:<br />

45. What is Peter Singer’s point about performing vivisection on mentally disabled human infants?<br />

46. Jeremy Waldron argues that the current use of drone warfare is unethical because<br />

47. According to Rachels, many people accept the conventional doctrine because they believe:<br />

48. The philosopher John Stuart Mill recognized the following as a potential problem for<br />

utilitarianism<br />

49. What is palliative care?<br />

50. According to the scene from The Bridge on the River Kwai, what is the ultimate reason<br />

Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) insists that the soldiers work hard to build the best bridge possible:

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