Need answers for Philosophy Unit Exam 2

Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)

1. Immanuel Kant revised Bentham’s ideas by arguing for the importance of differences

in the type, kind, or quality of pleasures and pains that follow from actions.

A. True

B. False

2. The most basic concept of Kant’s ethics is truth.

A. True

B. False

3. Kant calls his basic moral rule the categorical imperative.

A. True

B. False

4. The ultimate drawback to a teleological approach to ethics is that it allows for the

idea that “the ends justify the means.”

A. True

B. False

5. In a religious approach to ethics, faith and the authority of sacred texts have the fi nal

word.

A. True

B. False

6. If an action is legal, it is also morally right.

A. True

B. False

7. Jeremy Bentham writes, “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two

sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought

to do.”

A. True

B. False