NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 77 of 90)
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- Consider the following statements: Deontological theory
- Means that, that which works is morally good.
- Grounds morality in the concert of duty
- Is based on ontology.
- Rejects the notion of divine command.
- Of these statements
- 1 and 2 are correct
- 1 and 3 are correct
- 2 and 4 are correct
- 3 and 4 are correct
- Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Philosphy MCQs (Practice_Test 77 of 90) List-I List-II - In order to get pleasure one must forget pleasure.
- Good is defined in terms of happiness.
- To know that an action has a natural property is not to know its moral value.
- If each person՚s happiness is good for him, universal happiness is good for all.
- Naturalistic fallacy
- Fallacy of composition
- Paradox of hedonism
- Open question argument
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 4
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- Which one of the following is NOT a correct statement?
- Utilitarianism is a kind of consequentialism
- Utilitarianism has a psychological basis
- Utilitarianism holds that good is a value in itself
- Utilitarianism asserts that moral judgments can be justified.
- One of the unique features of Bent ham՚s utilitarianism lies in his
- Distinction between higher and lower pleasures
- Calculus of pleasures
- Altruistic hedonism
- Intuitionist explanation of goodness
- Which one of the following statements is NOT associated with Bent ham՚s Utilitarianism?
- Nature has placed man under the empire of pleasure and pain. His object is to seek pleasure and shun pain.
- Weigh pleasures and weigh pains, and as the balance stands, will stand the question of right and wrong.
- Quantity of pleasure being equal, pushpin is as good as poetry.
- The moral standard is the greatest pleasure of the individual, and not the ‘greatest pleasure of the greatest number’
- Which one of the following statements elucidates the principle of Utilitarianism?
- To desire a thing except in proportion as the idea of it is pleasant is a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
- The internal sanction of conscience is a feeling for the happiness of mankind.
- The ‘sense of dignity’ in man is responsible for preferring noble pleasures to physical pleasures.
- It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
- Which one of the following statements is NOT associated with Kantian ethics?
- Reason is the regulative principle in the life of a person.
- The moral law is made for the sake of man and not man for the sake of law.
- The complete good is virtue and happiness in harmony with each other.
- Prudence has nothing to do with virtue.
- A descriptivist account of moral judgments
- Must deny that moral judgments are ever prescriptive
- Must hold that moral judgments are persuasive in nature.
- Must hold that moral judgments are emotive in nature.
- Must deny that moral judgments can never be true or false.
- If our actions are fully predictable then there can be no freedom for human beings. According to Mill the above statements is
- True
- True only in ethical context
- True only in non-ethical context
- False
- In Kant՚s view imperfect duties are imperfect because
- Their maxims cannot be willed so as to become universal law of nature
- They are only self-regarding
- They can be overridden by perfect duties
- They are not determinate
- The meaning of a categorical imperative, as defined by Kant, can be elucidated as
- You must do X because X is good in itself
- Yours truly, must do X because X is good for attaining happiness
- You must do X because there is nothing better than X
- You must do X because the divine will so commands
- Consider the following statements: ‘I ought’ presupposes ‘I can’ is
- A principle of ethics.
- A logical principle.
- Apolitical principle.
- A psychological law.
- Of these statements
- 1 and 3 are correct
- 1 and 2 are correct
- 2 and 3 are correct
- 3 and 4 are correct
- The Prescriptive theory of ethics holds that the function of moral judgments is
- To persuade people to act in right way
- To tell people what ought to be done
- To make people aware of the distinction between right and wrong
- To express the speaker՚s attitude
- Emotivism is compatible with the view that moral judgments are
- Objectively valid
- Universal in character
- Incapable of proof
- Verifiable only in terms of their consequences
- Bhagavadgita՚s doctrine of niskama karma means
- Doing actions considering one self as an instrument of God
- Doing actions without attachment
- Doing actions for ‘Lokasamgraha’
- Doing action for attaining moksa