PHIL 201 - Quiz 8 2025-2026 Most Recent Version Comprehensive 50 Questions and Verified Answers Accurate Solutions Already Graded A+ Get it 100% correct
A Priori - CORRECT ANSWER: Reason or knowledge that comes from theoretical
deduction rather than from observation or experience
Alasdair MacIntyre - CORRECT ANSWER: Fractured understanding theory with a
rebuilding of inaccurate science to describe contemporary virtue ethics.
Aristotelian virtue ethics - CORRECT ANSWER: A teleological normative ethical theory that understands the outcome to which moral actions should be pointed is eudaemonia, well-being, or the excellence of the soul, focusing on character building through enacting and embodying virtues
Atheistic ethical nonnaturalism - CORRECT ANSWER: Moral properties are brute
metaphysical realities and are, therefore, not naturally or divinely derived
Ayn Rand - CORRECT ANSWER: Egoism supporter, 20th century naturalist, man must
live for himself and do nothing for others. Achievement of man's happiness is the ultimate moral purpose.
Categorical Imperative - CORRECT ANSWER: Unconditional, applying to all people
everywhere, rule or command that is universally and objectively applicable.
Cognitivism - CORRECT ANSWER: Moral statements are held to be either true or false
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Contemporary Virtue Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER: MacIntyre, maintaining that we
cannot construct a unified approach to morality that applies to all people everywhere, since morality is something inherently tied to cultural systems, contexts, and languages
Cultural relativism - CORRECT ANSWER: A subjectivist metaethical theory maintaining that moral statements are true or false relative to the specific groups making them
Deontology - CORRECT ANSWER: "ought" or "duty", ethics in terms of obligation
Divine Command Theory - CORRECT ANSWER: Deontological ethical theory declaring
that morality is grounded in a fundamental way in whatever it is that God commands
Egoism - CORRECT ANSWER: A teleological normative ethical theory that understands morality in terms of the well-being of the self
Emotivism - CORRECT ANSWER: Moral statements are expressions of emotion.
Feelings dictate statements
Enlightenment - CORRECT ANSWER: A movement in the 18th century that advocated
the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.
Ethical naturalism - CORRECT ANSWER: Objectivist metaethical theory attempting to reduce moral properties to or define them as natural properties that are the subject matter of biology, psychology, and sociology
Ethical nonnaturalism - CORRECT ANSWER: An objectivist metaethical theory claiming the existence of fundamental moral truths that are not features of the natural world
Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER: the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions, a branch of philosophy that explores morality
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