Motive –Quiz A

The second of the five classes of moral terms and judgments is ‘motives’.

Quiz

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1. List as many terms as you know that refer to ‘morally good’ and ‘virtue’ as well as “morally bad”and ‘vice’.

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2. How do we refer to a person who is ‘morally bad’ or engaged in ‘vice’?

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3. What conditions must be fulfilled for an act to be morally good?

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4. What if a man does an act which is actually wrong but he believes it to be right and he does it from good motives?

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5. What is a morally good motive?

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6. What is a cynic’s reaction to a person who claims that he acted from a morally good motive?

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7. Are there are other good motives besides the desire to do what is right or to do one’s duty?

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8. Is ‘love’ a motive from which a non-moral agent could act?

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9. Is it ever one’s duty to love someone?

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10. Are all virtues moral virtues?

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11. Are some virtues,like truthfulness, regarded as moral virtues?

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12. Are “Morally good”and “virtuous”also applied to people and the character of people?

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13. What if a person is often mistaken about what he believes to be right but he pursues it from a morally good motive?

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14. Is a virtuous person the same as a morally good person?

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15. Is “morally bad”simply the converse of “morally good”?

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