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Chapter 1: Thinking About ValuesTB-1 |1Chapter 1: Thinking About ValuesTrue/False Questions1.The phrase “50-50 nation” refers to those above and below the poverty line. (F)2.Psychologists claim that a child must develop a sense of values by the age of 7 in order tobecome an adult with a conscience. (T)3.The study of a moral center in the brain claims that a mapping of the moral center can tell uswhether one moral answer is better than another. (F)4.The study of ethics is an exclusively Western phenomenon. (F)5. According to the lessons of Milgram, Zimbardo, and Arendt, normal, decentpeople are capableof committing evil acts such as murdering innocents in extreme and unusual circumstances.(T)6.The proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” originated in the American Indian tradition. (F)7.“Morality” usually refers to theories about the moral rules we follow. (F)8.There is common agreement among ethicists that it is not possible for an atheist to have morals.(F)9.A nonmoral value never refers to something as being good or bad, or right or wrong. (F)10. Philosophers believe that there is an important use for reason as a tool in ethics in buildingbridges among religious people, atheists, and agnostics. (T)11. Historically, Western philosophers emphasized reason over faith in defending particular moralpositions because they tended to be atheists. (F)12.An inductive argument is a conclusion based on gathering of evidence, but you can’t be certainthat the conclusion is true. (T)13.There are two types of “arguments” in philosophy: deductive and inductive. (T)14.The logical fallacy of using threats is called the ad baculum fallacy. (T)15.The logical fallacy of begging the question makes the assumption that what you’re trying toprove is a fact. (T)16.The logical fallacy of bifurcation makes the assumption that what you’re trying to prove is afact. (F)17.The logical fallacy of a slippery slope assumes that drastic consequences will follow a certainpolicy. (T)18. Recent research of the brain suggests thatthe “normal” brain has evolved to recognize thevalue of a human life emotionally. (T)19. Moral naturalism is the view thatwe all come equipped with a moral intuition, hardwired frombirth. (T)

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