Test your knowledge about Motives
The third of the five classes of moral terms and judgments is ‘motives’.
Quiz
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1. Do people sometimes commit wrong acts for wrong’s sake in small matters?
2. What could be the bad motive which makes a wrong act a morally bad act?
3. What,then,is a morally bad person?
4. What if a person does a wrong act reluctantly?
5. What must a person do to be considered a morally weak agent?
6. How would you describe a person who feels no reluctance about doing a wrong action?
7. A review of moral goodness and moral badness suggests that there seem to be stages of moral goodness and moral badness. What is the highest level of moral goodness?
8. What is the moral goodness of the ordinary decent person …probably the level most people are at most of the time?
9. How would you describe people who frequently mistakenly believe something to be right when it is,in fact,wrong?
10. What is meant when it is said that a person has moral blind spot?
11. What is meant when it is said that a person has moral blind spot?
12. How might we describe a person who is totally undeterred by the wrongness of an act and not motivated to do what is right?
13. What do we mean when we say a person has a conscience?
14. What about the person who is not indifferent to the wrongness of an act and who desires to do his duty but who is careless?
15. Solve this problem:
Suppose that John believes that he ought to do X.
But in fact it is not the case that he ought to do X
Ought he then do X?

