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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 does Hume say happens to justice over time?
(a) It gets less just.
(b) It is needed less and less.
(c) It gets simpler.
(d) It gets more complex.

2. When does Hume say self-interested motives can be taken to be virtuous?
(a) When they are connected with natural instincts.
(b) When they are connected to artificial virtue.
(c) When they are connected with vice.
(d) When they are connected with death.

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

4. Which is the following is the best definition of the razor principle?
(a) If no term can be balanced into equal parts, it's worthless.
(b) If no term can be imagined by the mind, it can never be fact.
(c) If no term can be proven to come from another idea, it has no meaning.
(d) If no term can be sliced into many parts, it can't be understood by a human mind.

5. Why does Hume think it is impossible to believe in a God?
(a) People have no direct impression of Him.
(b) Religion is too strict.
(c) Religion does not allow for natural thought.
(d) There are too many different Gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is an abstract concept?

2. What does Hume claim should not be arrived at instinctively?

3. What passion does Hume say malice is like?

4. What does Hume say we need to stop men from fighting?

5. What does Hume say is the opposite of respect?

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