Exam 1: Thinking About Values

According to the experiments of Stanley Milgram, Philip Zimbardo, and Hannah Arendt, normal and decent people are capable of committing evil acts such as murdering innocents under extreme and unusual circumstances.

The study of a moral center in the brain claims that mapping of the moral center can reveal whether one moral answer is better than another.

There are two types of "arguments" in philosophy: inductive and deductive.

Martha Nussbaum specified that disgust and shame should be considered conducive to moral understanding because emotions, alongside reason, are important in shaping our moral values.

Which of the following is NOT a type of logical fallacy?

The phrase "50-50 nation" referred to individuals who were above and below the poverty line.

In comparison with subjects with healthy and undamaged brains, scientific studies indicate that subjects with damage to their ventromedial frontal lobes

Martha Nussbaum claims that

The slippery slope argument assumes that drastic consequences will follow a certain policy.

The proverb "It takes a village to raise a child" originated in the American Indian tradition.

The part of the brain that plays a pivotal role in our development of a moral sense is the

According to Martha Nussbaum, when we experience the emotion of disgust, we establish an us-versus-them environment.

Philosophers believe that reason as a tool of ethics can be a bridge builder among religious people, atheists, and agnostics.

According to Martha Nussbaum, we understand ourselves and our emotions best through narratives.

There is common agreement among ethicists that it is not possible for an atheist to have morals.

According to Arendt, the banality of evil refers to the fact that acts of evil are

Recent research of the brain suggests that the "normal" brain has evolved to recognize the value of a human life emotionally.

Explain Martha Nussbaum's claim that philosophy has not dealt with emotions because humans are not self-sufficient when they are emotional.

Which of the following is the LEAST likely conclusion to be drawn from Philip Zimbardo's work?

The logical fallacy of bifurcation makes the assumption that what you're trying to prove is a fact.