Midterms

Question 1

According to Annas, we are each the best authority on whether or not we are happy.

Answer 1

false

Question 2

Aristotle observes that we disagree about what happiness consists of. Some think that happiness consists of pleasure, some honor, others wealth.

Answer 2

true

Question 3

A problem with the desire-fulfillment view is that if it were true it would not allow us to rank the happiness of lives by saying that some people are happier than others.

Answer 3

true

Question 4

A problem with the desire-fulfillment view is that if it were true it would not matter how our desires are fulfilled.

Answer 4

true

Question 5

Aristotle observes that everyone agrees that happiness is the highest good.

Answer 5

true

Question 6

According to Aristotle, the characteristic activity of humans is eating, drinking, and propagating the human species.

Answer 6

false

Question 7

According to Aristotle, the fulfillment of our rational nature consists of obtaining knowledge.

Answer 7

false

Question 8

According to Aristotle, being a good or virtuous person is constitutive of happiness.

Answer 8

true

Question 9

According to Thomson, something is good insofar as it has the property of goodness.

Answer 9

false

Question 10

Natural kinds are not goodness-fixing kinds.

Answer 10

false

Question 11

Eudaimonia is a complete and perfectly satisfying life (i.e., a flourishing life).

Answer 11

true

Question 12

A way in which friends contribute to our moral development is that friendship draws us out of ourselves and teaches us how to care for others for their own sake.

Answer 12

true

Question 13

A way in which friends contribute to our moral development is that they help us to persevere through difficulty in our pursuit of what is good

Answer 13

true

Question 14

A way in which friends contribute to our moral development is that they never criticize us but always encourage us

Answer 14

false

Question 15

Charity requires universal good-will.

Answer 15

true

Question 16

Aquinas claims that sometimetimes it is best not to rebuke one’s friend, but to invite them to repent with us

Answer 16

true

Question 17

Fraternal correction is an act of charity principally because it protects those others whom the wrongdoer is harming.

Answer 17

false

Question 18

It is morally permissible to wait to correct one’s friend if doing so will likely make one’s friend more receptive to correction.

Answer 18

true

Question 19

It is morally permissible to refrain entirely from correcting one’s friend if it is likely that any attempt to correct them will actually make them worse.

Answer 19

true

Question 20

It is never permissible to correct a friend for a sin that you yourself have committed.

Answer 20

false

Question 21

Utilitarianism is the view that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote your own happiness and wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of your own happiness.

Answer 21

false

Question 22

A consequentialist holds that some actions have intrinsic moral value.

Answer 22

false

Question 23

According to Aquinas, if four friends were stuck on a lifeboat and were starving to death, three of them could kill and eat the fourth for the sake of the common good.

Answer 23

false

Question 24

According to Aquinas, the correct way to view the common good is as an aggregate of individuals.

Answer 24

false

Question 25

The defining characteristic of mortal sins is that they are deserving of greater punishment.

Answer 25

false

Question 26

It is possible to love someone and commit a venial sin against them.

Answer 26

true

Question 27

Venial sins are never committed with full-knowledge.

Answer 27

false

Question 28

Venial sins never destroy charity.

Answer 28

true

Question 29

If you commit many venial sins, the sin will eventually become mortal.

Answer 29

false

Question 30

In order for an act to be voluntary, you must know what act you are choosing because you cannot choose what you do not know.

Answer 30

true

Question 31

All sins are voluntary.

Answer 31

false

Question 32

We are responsible for actions that are done from habit solely because we are responsible for our habits to begin with.

Answer 32

false

Question 33

We are still morally responsible for acts produced by habit because it is still possible for us to act contrary to our habits.

Answer 33

true

Question 34

When under the influence of a strong emotion, then we are not necessarily responsible for a sinful action that we do.

Answer 34

false

Question 35

A person who plans a murder, but never has the opportunity to carry it out is just as morally blameworthy as the person who commits the murder.

Answer 35

true

Question 36

Although our emotions may be disordered, we are not morally responsible for them, because they are not voluntary.

Answer 36

false

Question 37

Sinning due to an emotion that precedes the will makes the sin more serious.

Answer 37

true

Question 38

Human acts are always external performances.

Answer 38

false