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According to natural law theory an action is right if and only if |
It is in accordance with human nature |
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A moral agent is an individual who |
Is morally responsible for his/her actions |
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A conceptual truth is |
A claim that can be known simply by understanding it |
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Why did Hume think that moral knowledge couldn't be empirical |
Because there is no way to get from descriptions to prescriptions |
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According to natural law theory moral truths are |
Empirical truths |
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Rousseau believed people are inherently cooperative whereas Hobbes believed |
They are inherently selfish |
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The two most secular ways of understanding the purposes of things are |
The Efficiency model and the Fitness model |
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To say something enhances fitness is to say that it |
Increases one's success at survival and reproduction |
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The term human nature |
Is ambiguous |
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What is it for a term to be ambiguous |
It has more than one meaning |
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The story of the Ring of Gyges suggests that when people are free to do whatever they want without consequences they tend to behave |
Selfishly |
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Psychological egoism is the theory that |
Everything people do is fundamentally motivated by self interest |
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Altruism is |
A direct desire to benefit others for their own sake |
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Psychological egoism is |
A descriptive theory of human motivation |
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If all of our actions are motivated by our strongest desire then |
Psychological egoism is true only if all of our strongest desires are for self interest |
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A physiological egoist would claim that giving up something you want for the sake of a loved one |
Is actually a self interested action |
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The case of the invisible hair elves is meant to show that |
It is a mistake to hold a view as immune from refutation by evidence |
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Why isn 't psychological egoism considered a ethical theory |
It aims to tell us how we do behave not how we should behave |
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Which of the following best describes the relationship between phycological egoism and ethics |
The truth of psychological egoism would mean that most of what we take for granted about morality would be mistaken |
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If one cannot conceive of any evidence that would refute psychological egoism what does this suggest about the theory |
The theory is not being held rationally |
