Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Critics charge that the divine command theory makes morality arbitrary.
2. Immanuel Kant claimed that the principles of religious ethics and philosophical ethics contradict one another.
3. One of George Mavrodes’s criticisms of secular ethics is that it lacks a metaphysical basis.
4. According to Bertrand Russell and Kai Nielsen, morality has no need of God.
5. The author of the text agrees with James Rachels that it is always wrong to give up one’s autonomy when deciding what to do.


T 1. Critics charge that the divine command theory makes morality arbitrary.
F 2. Immanuel Kant claimed that the principles of religious ethics and philosophical ethics contradict one another.
T 3. One of George Mavrodes’s criticisms of secular ethics is that it lacks a metaphysical basis.
T 4. According to Bertrand Russell and Kai Nielsen, morality has no need of God.
F 5. The author of the text agrees with James Rachels that it is always wrong to give up one’s autonomy when deciding what to do.

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