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6. In Hobbes’s philosophy, the Leviathan is (A) the group of people making social contracts, (B) the group of people hearing God’s commands accurately, (C) the sociologists learning the culture’s norms, (D) the king of the society, (E) philosophers of the state.

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13. The aim of the people in Rawls’s “original position” is to (A) decide who should rule, (B) select general principles of justice, (C) select an ideal national constitution, (D) determine whether individual actions are morally right or wrong, (E) define ‘Goodness’.

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18. The purpose of the veil of ignorance is to (A) prevent people in the original position from adopting principles of justice that unfairly advantage themselves, (B) make the decision of which principles of justice to adopt simpler and easier, (C) ensure that the principles of justice selected are not too complicated for ordinary people to follow, (D) ensure that America comes first in America's decision-making policies, (E) A, B, and C.

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11. According to Rawls, the "original position" (A) occurred worldwide prior to Hobbes's state of nature, (B) occurred in Europe in the 1700s, (C) occurred worldwide in the 1700s, (D) never occurred historically and is hypothetical, (E) is occurring today worldwide.

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20. In Plato’s Euthyphro, Socrates offers what many see as a challenge to (A) Divine Command Theory, (B) Ethical Egoism, (C) Cultural Relativism, (D) Utilitarianism, (E) Natural Law Theory.

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Ethical Egoism, (E) Rule Utilitarianism. 19. A serious problem discussed in our course materials with Bentham’s ethical theory is that it seems to allow for (A) disobeying God’s commands, (B) going against cultural norms, (C) killing an innocent person to help a greater number, (D) acting against categorical imperatives, (E) allowing for genocide.

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14. If Normative Cultural Relativism is true, then the United States (A) should remain exactly as racist as it is today, (B) should become less racist than it is today, (C) is not at all racist today, (D) should fight racism in other countries, (E) learn moral lessons from other cultures about how to be less racist.

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11. Normative Cultural Relativism holds that an act is morally obligatory if and only if (A) God commands it, (B) it maximizes happiness for everyone involved, (C) it produces true benefit for the actor, (D) each culture in the world agrees the action is obligatory, (E) none of the above.

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8. Divine Command Theory appeals to God’s (A) goodness, (B) power, (C) timelessness, (D) will, (E) rationality.

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3. The following theory denies the existence of real moral obligation. (A) Utilitarianism, (B) Divine Command Theory, (C) Ethical Egoism, (D) Moral Nihilism, (E) Cultural Relativism.

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