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PT136.S2.Q20

SECTION 1 · rc

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PrepTest 136 - Section 2 - Question 20

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Speaker 1 Summary

Daniel concludes that fulfilling a moral obligation isn’t sufficient to make an action morally good. This is because one requirement to be morally good is that the action is performed with the right motivations.

Speaker 2 Summary

Carrie concludes that the only thing that is required for an action to be morally good is fulfilling a moral obligation. This is because we can’t consciously control our motivations.

Objective

We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether being performed with the right motivations is required for an action to be good. Daniel thinks the right motivations are required. Carrie thinks the right motivations are not a requirement. They also disagree about whether fulfilling a moral obligation is sufficient to for an action to be good.

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The dialogue most supports the █████ ████ ██████ ███ ██████ ███ █████████ ██ ███████████ ████ ████ █████ █████ ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ███████████

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Neither speaker expresses an opinion. Nobody refers to the possibility or impossibility of performing an action.

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Neither speaker expresses an opinion. For Daniel, the right motivations are necessary for being good, but that doesn’t imply an opinion about whether there exist actions that fulfill that necessary condition but are not good.

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Neither speaker expresses an opinion. Although Daniel refers to the right motivations, he does not specify the particular motivation of wanting to fulfill a moral obligation. We do not know what constitutes a right motivation.

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This is a point of disagreement. Daniel thinks the right motivations are required to be good. Carrie thinks the right motivations are not required. So, Carrie believes an action performed with the wrong motivations can be good, as long as it fulfills a moral obligation.

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Neither expresses an opinion. Daniel believes the right motivations are necessary to be good, but that doesn’t imply a belief about whether they are sufficient to be good. He also doesn’t say whether being motivated by duty constitutes a right motivation.

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73% of people who answer get this correct

This is a difficult question.

CURVE

Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 145

154

75% 164

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Point at issue: disagree

Stimulus Tags

Conditional reasoning

Value judgment

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73%

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