Exam 3

Question 1

What century did Thomas Aquinas live in?

Answer 1

13th century

Question 2

Who said “the unexamined life is not worth living”?

Answer 2

Pythagoras’s

Question 3

What is incommensurable value?

Answer 3

This idea that people are “priceless” not in the idea expensive but you can’t compare people to money there is no exchange rate

Question 4

Who we associates with virtue ethics

Answer 4

Aristotle a student of Plato

Question 5

Golden mean

Answer 5

Virtue is a homeostasis between 2 extremes

Question 6

Functionalism

Answer 6

Everything has a function which is its purpose

Question 7

Supervenience

Answer 7

Something that is associated with something else and changes as the thing it supervenes on changes

Question 8

Scalia amoris

Answer 8

Platonic suggestion that various kinds of attractions that we have are linked and one can take is to another and eventually lead us to the source of love itself

Question 9

Eudaimonia

Answer 9

Happiness but in the sense of deeper inner sense of fulfillment

Question 10

Telos

Answer 10

Goal or aim

Question 11

Theodicy

Answer 11

Justifying a god as all knowing all powerful and perfectly living in the face of evil

Question 12

Meliorism

Answer 12

The idea that humans progress over time in reason, science and technology

Question 13

Deontology

Answer 13

Study of duties

Question 14

“Treat each other as an end as well as a mean”

Answer 14

Immanuel Kant

Question 15

2 philosopher of utilitarianism

Answer 15

Jeremy Bentham and John mill

Question 16

Categorical imperative

Answer 16

An unconditional moral obligation that is binding in all circumstances and is not dependent on a persons inclination I purpose

Question 17

Hypothetical imperative

Answer 17

Action based on desires

Question 18

Religion

Answer 18

Identity mythology

Question 19

Unconditioned good

Answer 19

Nothing is good in the moral sense expect acts which are good and done for the right reason

Question 20

Conditioned empirical goods

Answer 20

All the good things can be used for evil purposes

Question 21

“Original position” and the “veil of ignorance”

Answer 21

A thought experience by John Rawls used to think about how we should construct the rules upon which society is based on

Question 22

Post hoc ergo Procter hoc

Answer 22

The mistake is thinking that something happens before something else it must have caused that thing

Question 23

Argumentum ad hominem

Answer 23

The mistake of confusing the person with the argument

Question 24

Argunetum as baculum

Answer 24

The mistakes of using threats is negative consequences to force someone to agree with you