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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Part 2, Of Justice and Injustice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What determines whether action is good or bad?
(a) Actions.
(b) Society.
(c) Motives.
(d) Morality.

2. For what does Hume think people mistake their perceptions?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Love.
(c) Reality.
(d) Feeliing.

3. What kind of people does Hume say don't understand justice?
(a) People with mental illness.
(b) Morally corrupt people.
(c) Criminals.
(d) Morally primitive people.

4. What does Hume think a proper understanding of the will help us to understand?
(a) Free will.
(b) Love.
(c) The passions.
(d) Death.

5. What does Hume say we need to stop men from fighting?
(a) Women.
(b) Children.
(c) Sport.
(d) Social units.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hume's third tool of philosophical inquiry?

2. What does Hume say was enough to regulate humans in their tribes?

3. The second truth in Hume's fork principle deals with what?

4. What connects our passions to our judgements about others?

5. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?

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