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Cultural Relativism, Thomas Hobbes, Egoism. Quick Quiz. Quick Quiz 1. Cultural Diversity is what? The thesis that: everyone in a culture is different. cultures disagree in clothing, economics, and religion. cultures disagree on moral matters. cultures disagree on everything.

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  1. Cultural Relativism, Thomas Hobbes, Egoism Quick Quiz

  2. Quick Quiz 1 Cultural Diversity is what? The thesis that: • everyone in a culture is different. • cultures disagree in clothing, economics, and religion. • cultures disagree on moral matters. • cultures disagree on everything.

  3. Quick Quiz 2 Which of the following is a moral or ethical claim: • God exists. • Honor is better than kindness. • There is an afterlife. • Jill loves everyone equally.

  4. Quick Quiz 3 Which of the following is a non-moral but morally relevant fact that could, if known by both parties, help clear up the culturally based disagreement about eating your enemies: • Spirits are disembodied persons. • No one has ever seen a spirit. • Eating your enemy destroys his or her spirit. • People taste extremely good.

  5. Quick Quiz 4 A better title for Chapter 1 of Brannigan would be: • The Case for Ethical Diversity. • The Culture of Diversity. • The Culture War and how to win it. • The Case for and against Cultural Diversity. • The Case for and against Ethical-Cultural Relativism.

  6. Quick Quiz 5 Ethical Egoism is the thesis that: • Only those with a strong ego can be moral. • Actions are right as they improve the ego; wrong as they diminish it. • One ought always to act from selfish motives. • One ought always to act for one’s own benefit. • No one should ever listen to their ego.

  7. Quick Quiz 6 The psychological egoist can brush aside the examples of Mother Teresa and Pam Anderson because: • Their actions are purely selfless and altruistic. • Their actions are silly and embarrassing to all. • Their actions are selfish because they’re motivated by guilt. • Their actions are selfish because they benefit things they care deeply about.

  8. Quick Quiz 7 A psychological egoist has trouble explaining why: • Folks don’t just admit they care only about themselves. • People feel guilty for not helping others. • Everyone doesn’t just steal and kill all the time. • So many people are genuine altruists.

  9. Quick Quiz 8 A main perk of Ethical Egoism is: • It gives you good reasons to act morally. • It removes all guilt from morality. • It creates godlike humans free of subservience to others. • It removes the awful constraints of having to be nice to others.

  10. Quick Quiz 9 Thomas Hobbes wrote about the necessary structure of: • Morality. • Society. • Industry. • Exploration. • Religion.

  11. Quick Quiz 10 Hobbes thinks that we humans are reducible to: • Our moral and spiritual identities. • Our fear of death and hope of eternal life. • Our passions as they conflict with reason. • Our brains and their deterministic operations. • Our private thoughts and their meaning for us.

  12. Quick Quiz 11 Hobbes thinks the Right of Nature allows us to: • Kill whenever we feel we have good reason. • Kill whenever the government permits it. • Kill whenever necessary to save our family. • Kill whenever necessary to save our life. • Kill whenever necessary to defend the commonwealth.

  13. Quick Quiz 12 We should follow the Laws of Nature, according to Hobbes, so that we: • Are good people. • Are moral people. • Avoid the condition of war. • Avoid the state of nature. • Avoid prosecution for crimes.

  14. Quick Quiz 13 Why does the state of nature mean there is no justice or injustice? • Because those things are unnatural. • Because those things are legal concepts. • Because ‘All’s fair in love and war’. • Because there is no language in nature. • It doesn’t mean that; justice and injustice exist in the state of nature.

  15. Quick Quiz 14 Hobbes thinks some parts of America illustrate: • Societies that get along without a sovereign. • Societies that show how religion can function as a sovereign. • Humans in the state of nature where life is nasty, brutish, and short. • Humans in the state of nature who overcome brutishness using religion.

  16. Quick Quiz Answers • C • B • C • E • D • C • B • A • B • D • D • C & D • C • C

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