PHI 208 (Week 5 Final Exam)

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Rachels claims that most actual cases of killing: are morally required. are morally less bad than most actual cases of letting die. are morally the same most actual cases of letting die. ... are morally worse than most actual cases of letting die. The answer can be found in the article “Active and Passive Euthanasia” Question 2 1 / 1 pts What does Noddings have to say about essentialism about gender? Culture is irrelevant; all of our behaviors are innate It wrongly assumes that God could not have made us in ways that were contrary to our ‘essential nature’ It is problematic because it has been associated with creation and because it has always favored males over females It is the clearly false view that men and women have essences The answer can be found on p. 214 of Nel Noddings’s “Maternal Ethics” Question 3 1 / 1 pts What, according to Tom Regan, is the contractarian approach to ethics? The view that all humans have equal rights independent of particular abilities The view that what is morally relevant is the pain and suffering that an animal endures when we mistreat it The view that all animals have rights because of the agreements that we have made (or should make) with them The view that individuals have rights because of a set of rules that they agree to follow, as with agreeing to the terms of a contract The answer can be found on p. 2 of Tom Regan’s “The Case for Animal Rights” Question 4 1 / 1 pts In Hill’s example, what did the wealthy eccentric man do to his yard after he bought a new house? 1 and 2 remodeled the kitchen covered the yard with asphalt cut down an avocado tree The answer can be found on p. 211 of Thomas Hill’s “Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments” Question 5 1 / 1 pts What does Singer say about finding the basis for moral duties in the “intrinsic dignity” of humanity? That God ordained humanity to be the top of the “great chain of being” That mankind is the most important species because it is the most intelligent That dolphins have actually been shown to be more intelligent than humans in many respects That such fine phrases are a last resort for philosophers who cannot find a distinction that gives humans worth while denying it to all other species The answer can be found on p. 8 of Peter Singer’s “All Animals are Equal.” Question 6 1 / 1 pts In 2003, how many people died in Canada, according to the video “Dying for Care: Quality Palliative and End of Life Care in Canada”? 350,000 2.2 million 750,000 226,000 [Show More]

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