Week 13 P Quiz 3

Front 1

Which of the following are true?

Back 1

-The judgment that an act is morally acceptable does not necessarily imply that the law should permit it.

-The judgment that an act is morally wrong does not necessarily lead to the judgment that the government should prohibit it or refuse to allocate funds to support it.

Front 2

Principlism is a very effective means towards moral discussion as it bypasses the epistemic differences as to the origin, nature, and justification of morality and focuses instead on intersubjective agreements of morality.

Back 2

TRUE

Front 3

Pluralistic interdisciplinary groups by definition cannot agree on particular moral theories or their epistemic justifications. However, pluralistic interdisciplinary groups can and do agree on intersubjective moral principles.

Back 3

TRUE

Front 4

Principlism fits which criterion?

Back 4

BOTH

Front 5

Grammar fits which criterion?

Back 5

BOTH

Front 6

Humanity, because of its moral diversity, has great disagreements with regard to broad and general moral principles. Because of these irreconcilable differences, pluralistic decision-making becomes next to impossible.

Back 6

FALSE

Front 7

In public discourse, intersubjective agreements on morality are often times referred to as?

Back 7

BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS

Front 8

Match the correct terms.

Back 8

1 Describes how people do in fact act.
-NONNORMATIVE
2 Prescribes how people ought or ought not to act.
-NORMATIVE
3 Associated with anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and historians.
-NONNORMATIVE
4 Associated with moral philosophers and theologians.
-NORMATIVE
5 Can be justified both empirically and a priori.
-NORMATIVE

Front 9

Principlism is a social political construct in that humans have descriptively found themselves organized in societies with certain social actions being considered permissible and certain social actions being considered as impermissible. These social agreements are defined as: "Common Morality."

Back 9

TRUE

Front 10

Which of the following is true about Principlism?

Back 10

ALL 3