Philo Test 3

Front 1

What is it about Sisyphus' punishment that makes it seem like such a meaningless task?

Back 1

Z

Front 2

What importance does Camus place on the fact that Sisyphus is consciously aware of the absurdity of his plight?

Back 2

He is aconscious being, and this is what makes his punishment so bad. He is able torealize how absurd his task is, and it is his consciousness of the absurditythat makes the punishment so awful.

Front 3

Do you think that Sisyphus leads a meaningless life? What is the smallest change that one could make to Sisyphus' situation to turn it into a life full of meaning?

Back 3

Z

Front 4

Who wrote the Myth of Sisyphus?

Back 4

Albert Camus

Front 5

According to Taylor what two things make ones life meaningless?

Back 5

1. Purposelessness and Repetition

Front 6

Human life is like a....

Back 6

Clock

Front 7

Taylor states what about being human and meaningfull?

Back 7

Just because you are alive does not make you meaningful and just because you are human does not make you meaningful

Front 8

What three things make life meaningful according to Taylor?

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1. Life is directed to goals of one's own creation and choice

2. Life goals must be genuinely noble, beautiful, or otherwise lasting worthwhile

3. Life goals are attained

Front 9

According to Taylor what is the best way to figure out what makes a meaningful life?

Back 9

Define what a meaningless life looks like

Front 10

Which image of meaninglessness did Taylor describe?

Back 10

The life of Sisyphus, the life of chanting nuns, and the life of a hole-digging convict

Front 11

Albert Camus calles Sisyphus...

Back 11

An absurd hero

Front 12

According to Taylor what is the greatest evil one can inflict upon another?

Back 12

Unrelieved boredom

Front 13

Supererogatory

Back 13

Z

Front 14

Utilitarian

Back 14

Z

Front 15

Singer argued...

Back 15

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening. without sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance we ought to morally do it

Front 16

Greatest Happiness Principle

Back 16

Z

Front 17

Treating as a means?

Back 17

Dealing with someone so as to achieve your goals

Front 18

Treating as an end?

Back 18

Treating someone with the respect that he or she deserves

Front 19

Singer beings his argument with the assumption that ______ is bad.

Back 19

Suffering

Front 20

O'Neil argued that Singer's principle did not what?

Back 20

Takes no account of the proximity or distance and makes no distinctions based on how many people could help

Front 21

In Kant's terminology a maxim is?

Back 21

A principle on which one acts

Front 22

Kant calls his Supreme Principle what?

Back 22

Categorical Imperative

Front 23

According to Singer, compliance with his principle requires?

Back 23

Drastic changes to both our personal habits and to our society

Front 24

Singer claims that famine relief organizations direct our aid to distant refugees?

Back 24

Almost as effectively as we could get it to our close neighbors

Front 25

Racialism

Back 25

There are heritable characteristics possessed by members of our species that allow us to divide into small set of races

Front 26

Extrinsic Racism

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There are moral distinctions between members of different races because being a certain race entails possessing certain morally relevant qualities

Front 27

Intrinsic Racism

Back 27

There are moral distinctions between members of different races because each race has a different moral status independent of the moral characteristics each member of a paticular race possesses

Front 28

What sort of considerations does Satuz use to argue for the asymmetry thesis?

Back 28

Gender equality

Front 29

According to Satz, her reasons against contract pregnancy?

Back 29

Contract pregnancy reinforces stereotypes about the proper role of women in the reproductive division. Contract pregnancy raises the danger that "motherhood" will be defined merely in terms of genetics. Contract pregnancy gives others increased access to and control over women's bodies and sexuality

Front 30

According to Appiah, racism is a sort of what?

Back 30

Ideological irrationality

Front 31

What does the asymmetry thesis say?

Back 31

Women's reproductive labor should be treated differently than other sorts of labor markets

Front 32

Who wrote Women's Reproductive Labor?

Back 32

Debra Satz

Front 33

Who wrote The Meaning of Human Existence?

Back 33

Richard Taylor

Front 34

Who wrote Famine, Affluence, and Morality?

Back 34

Peter Singer

Front 35

Who wrote Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems?

Back 35

Onora O'Neill

Front 36

Who wrote Racism?

Back 36

Kwanme Anthony Appiah