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Week Three Reading Quiz

Week Three Reading Quiz

Q 1. Question 1 0/4 From the list below, which question(s) is an example of what Utilitarianism takes to be intrinsically important? Choose all the answers that apply. Several answers may be correct, but in some cases only one answer may be correct. Note: Be Careful! Choose only those answers you know are correct. You will receive points for each correct selection (up to 3 points) so long as you make no incorrect selections. Any incorrect choices will result in zero points for this question. Show answer choices 2. Question 2 4/4 Match each thesis with the correct description. 3. Question 3 4/4 Fischer discusses the “Linda Problem,” Linda is thirty-one years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations. Which is more probable? 1) Linda is a bank teller or 2) Linda is a bank teller who is active in the feminist movement. Why? Choose all the answers that apply. Several answers may be correct, but in some cases only one answer may be correct. Note: Be Careful! Choose only those answers you know are correct. You will receive points for each correct selection (up to 4 points) so long as you make no incorrect selections. Any incorrect choices will result in zero points for this question. 4. Question 4 4/4 Fisher argues that it is important for us to have the capacity for critical, careful thought. He suggests that in practice this involves several things. Slowing down, taking the time to really process what you’re reading hearing, watching and so on and asking the right questions. From the list below select the questions he says are most important. Choose all the answers that apply. Several answers may be correct, but in some cases only one answer may be correct. Note: Be Careful! Choose only those answers you know are correct. You will receive points for each correct selection (up to 5 points) so long as you make no incorrect selections. Any incorrect choices will result in zero points for this question. Show answer choices 5. Question 5 4/4 From the list below, which question(s) is an example of what Kantianism takes to be intrinsically important? Choose all the answers that apply. Several answers may be correct, but in some cases only one answer may be correct. Note: Be Careful! Choose only those answers you know are correct. You will receive points for each correct selection (up to 3 points) so long as you make no incorrect selections. Any incorrect choices will result in zero points for this question.

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1.What does my culture believe I should do in this situation? 2.1. The thesis that people in different cultures have different beliefs about what’s right and wrong. Cultural Variation 2. The thesis that actions are right and wrong depending on whether they treat people as mere means, rather than as ends in themselves. Right actions respect the autonomy of others by treating them as ends in themselves, wrong actions disrespect people by using them as mere means. Kantianism 3. The thesis that actions are right and wrong because of the norms of the relevant culture. Each culture has the correct moral view for its culture even though those views conflict with the ones in other cultures. Cultural Relativism 4. The thesis that actions are right and wrong depending on whether they are the actions a virtuous person would perform. You ought to act the way a kind, patient, gracious, attentive, thoughtful, courageous person would. 3.1) Linda is a bank teller, because the probability that she is a bank teller is higher than the probability that she is a bank teller active in the feminist movement. To think otherwise is an example of “the base rate fallacy.”