5/13/22, 1:22 PM Quiz on Well-Being: Attempt review

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Question 1
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The Life Satisfaction Theory claims that happiness consists in a person's tendency to make positive rational judgments about whether
he or she is happy, according to the person's own projects, values, and other personal standards. From the options below, select the
claim that is not mentioned in the video lecture as an objection to the Life Satisfaction Theory of happiness.
Select one:
a. It seems possible for a person to judge her life positively according to his or her own projects, values, and other personal
standards, but to nevertheless be unhappy. For example, someone might choose a life of artistic creativity over happiness.
b. At any particular moment, a person may be poorly positioned to render a conclusive judgment about his or her own life. This
might be because the person is primed to weigh recent events too heavily, which in effect clouds the person's judgment.
c. The Life Satisfaction View ‘collapses’ into one of the other two views  This is not one of the problems facing the Life
(Hedonism and the Emotional State View) because we will only feel Satisfaction Theory discussed in the lecture.
satisfied with our lives when they are full of pleasure or characterized
by some positive emotional state.
d. It is too difficult to judge the entirety of one's life according to a single measure, since a person can be happy in some respects
but not in others (for example, a person might be happy in his or her career but unhappy in personal matters).

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: The Life Satisfaction View ‘collapses’ into one of the other two views (Hedonism and the Emotional State View)
because we will only feel satisfied with our lives when they are full of pleasure or characterized by some positive emotional state.

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Question 2
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Suppose that I feel bad about something I have done, and I think that I deserve punishment. I decide that an appropriate punishment
would be getting beaten up, so I hire a very tough person to beat me up. And then, this person does indeed beat me up.
Richard Kraut thinks that cases like this can provide an objection to the desire theory. Below are four claims about this example. Three of
them together would, if true, imply that the desire theory is indeed wrong. One of them, however, is unnecessary: the argument against
the desire theory does not rely on this claim. Please pick out the UNNECESSARY claim.
Select one:
a. Getting beaten up was bad for me, not good for me.
b. I wanted to get beaten up.
c. If the desire theory is true, then getting what you want is always good for you.
d. Getting beaten up is a kind of punishment, and I  Correct. This might be true, but it is not necessary for the argument. The
thought I deserved punishment. other three claims, taken together, imply that the desire theory is not true,
but this one is not necessary to achieve that goal.

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Getting beaten up is a kind of punishment, and I thought I deserved punishment.

Question 3
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According to Kraut, what is wrong with desire theory?

Select one:
a. Kraut thinks there is only one kind of human good, but desire theory claims there are many kinds.
b. Desire theory is wrong because it is pluralistic.
c. What is wrong with desire theory is that it suggests that the best life is one devoted to the gratification of fleeting impulses.
d. Desire theory is wrong because it says that it is the mere satisfying of desires that makes a life good,  This is
regardless of what those desires are. correct.

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: Desire theory is wrong because it says that it is the mere satisfying of desires that makes a life good, regardless
of what those desires are.

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Question 4
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Richard Kraut offers a theory of what makes a human life good, according to which one must love things that are worth loving: we must
want things which have "features that make them worth wanting." He then describes some consequences of this theory. Which TWO of
the following does he think are consequences of his theory?
Select one or more:
a. That human lives are worthwhile to the extent that they  Incorrect. On p. 292, he explains why he does "not go further and
are devoted to reasoning. accept...that human lives are worthwhile to the extent that they are
devoted to reasoning.
b. That experiencing pain might not always be bad for us.
c. That the satisfaction of desire is always good for us.
d. That gaining power or wealth might not always be good for us. 

Your answer is partially correct.

You have correctly selected 1.
The correct answers are: That experiencing pain might not always be bad for us., That gaining power or wealth might not always be good
for us.

Question 5
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According to the lectures, the hedonistic paradox claims:

Select one:
a. People who actively seek pleasure usually find less of it than people who pursue activities that they think of as valuable for 
their own sake.
b. People who pursue activities that they think of as valuable for their own sake are the real hedonists because these activities
bring pleasure; people who actively seek pleasure never find pleasure.
c. We say that good life depends on pleasure but good life leads to pleasure and so the view is circular.
d. We say that the good life depends on pleasure but not all pleasures are the same and so not every good life is the same; but
there cannot be more than one type of good life.

Your answer is correct.

The correct answer is: People who actively seek pleasure usually find less of it than people who pursue activities that they think of as
valuable for their own sake.

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Question 6
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The lecture video Well-Being 2 discusses three accounts of happiness: Hedonism, the Life Satisfaction Account, and the Emotional
State View. From the answers below, select the option that describes what all three views have in common.
Select one:
a. All three views are descriptive theories, in that each one merely explains the nature of happiness or what happiness is as a
matter of fact.
b. All three views appeal to  Incorrect. Of the three views, only the hedonist claims that happiness is pleasure. The other
pleasure to explain the nature two views, the Life Satisfaction Account and the Emotional State View, appeal, respectively, to
of happiness. On every view, a person's own judgments about his or her own life and to a person's overall emotional state.
it is incorrect to say that a Neither of these latter two views give pleasure per se pride of place in an account of what
person is happy unless that happiness is.
person experiences a certain
proportion of pleasure
throughout his or her entire
life.
c. All three views prioritize the person's own judgments about what makes him or her happy. This is because a person can only be
considered happy or unhappy relative to the values, goals, and standards that a person has chosen for him or herself.
d. All three views are normative theories, in that each one attempts to prescribe how we ought to live.

Your answer is incorrect.

The correct answer is: All three views are descriptive theories, in that each one merely explains the nature of happiness or what
happiness is as a matter of fact.

Question 7
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What advantages has the life-satisfaction theory of happiness over an account of hedonism? Choose all that apply.
Select one or more:
a. It involves our own judgments instead of resorting only  This is one of two correct answers. The other correct answer is
to pleasure. that it considers the totality of our life, not just some (pleasurable
or unpleasurable) events.
b. It considers the totality of our life, not just the sum of  This is one of two correct answers. The other correct answer is
(pleasurable or unpleasurable) events. that it involves our own judgments instead of resorting only to
pleasure.
c. It calculates the overall sum of pleasure in our lives.
d. It considers the emotional condition we have during different periods of our lives.

Your answer is correct.

The correct answers are: It involves our own judgments instead of resorting only to pleasure., It considers the totality of our life, not just
the sum of (pleasurable or unpleasurable) events.

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Question 8
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According to Kraut, when are we living a good life? Choose all that apply.
Select one or more:
a. When we desire things that bring satisfaction over and over again whenever we acquire them.
b. When we desire things that are worth desiring.  This is one of two correct
answers.
c. When all our desires are met.
d. When we can explain why we desire the things  This is one of two correct answers. Kraut's view is that what makes a
we do by pointing out the valuable or admirable desire good will be explained by the properties or features had by the
qualities those things have. thing we desire, not by the mere fact that we desire it.

Your answer is correct.

The correct answers are: When we can explain why we desire the things we do by pointing out the valuable or admirable qualities those
things have., When we desire things that are worth desiring.

◀︎Supplementary Reading: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Well-Being

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