Deck 22: Fitting Attitudes Towards Deprivations

Question 1

According to the Epicurean Argument

A) You should fear death because it is bad for you.
B) You should fear death even though it is not bad for you.
C) You shouldn't fear death because it is not bad for you.
D) You shouldn't fear death even though it is bad for you.

Answer 1

You shouldn't fear death because it is not bad for you.

Question 2

According to Bradley

A) You should have no preference about living or dying.
B) You should prefer more of a good life, but you shouldn't fear death.
C) You should be afraid of death because of what it prevents.
D) None of the above.

Answer 2

You should prefer more of a good life, but you shouldn't fear death.

Question 3

According to the deprivation account

A) Death is instrumentally bad
B) Death is intrinsically bad
C) Death is intrinsically good and intrinsically bad
D) None of the above

Answer 3

Death is instrumentally bad

Question 4

The argument involving Bjorn and Sven is supposed to show

A) That nothing is good or bad for anyone.
B) That death is always harmful.
C) That getting a massage is just as bad as dying.
D) None of the above

Question 5

Draper would object to Bradley's view by saying

A) Death cannot be a misfortune if it is unfitting to worry about it
B) Existential terror is rationally required
C) Bradley is committed to endorsing voluntary euthanasia
D) All of the above

Question 6

Bradley objects to the fittingness of existential terror on the grounds that

A) The soul is immortal so people do not go out of existence
B) Existential terror can be induced by defective playing cards
C) You can't control the time of your death so there is no reason to worry about it
D) None of the above
E) All of the above

Question 7

What is the deprivation view of the badness of death? What is Bradley's view about the fittingness of fearing death if the deprivation view is true? Present, explain and evaluate one of Bradley's arguments for his view.

Question 8

What is the deprivation view of the badness of death? What is Bradley's view about the fittingness of fearing death if the deprivation view is true? What is the most serious problem for Bradley's view, and does that problem refute Bradley's view?