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19. A virtue is a trait of character manifested in habitual actions, which is essential in achieving the
kingdom of ends:
20. Virtuous actions are the ones that avoid two extremes - one of excess and of deficiency:
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Ethics Final Exam
True/False questions (2 points each)
1. Hebbes thought that the need for morality arises due to the basic conditions of human life according to
which people always find themselves in conflicts of interests:
2. According to the Social Contract Theory, morality consists in the set of rules, governing behavior, that
rational people will accept an the condition that human beings have intrinsic worth, dignity
3. Social contractarians, in general, believe that any government is better than no government since
without government marality cannot exist
4. Bentham claimed that morality is not about pleasing God, nor is it about being faithful to abstract rules.
Rather, it is about making the world as happy as possible:
5.1. S. Mill criticized Bentham's hedonist attitude and claimed that morality ought to be based on a sense
of duty as each persan is the source of all values in the warld:
6. The classical Utilitarianism endarses Hedonism in the sense that pleasure is the ultimate gaal in life:
7. The classical Utilitarianism ignores the significance of justice, individual rights and promise:
& According to Utilitarianism, ane has to treat all the people strictly equally:
9. J.J.C. Smart defended the Rule-Utilitarianism by arguing that when there is a conflict between
commonsense and the principle of utility, the principle can be wrong:
10. Kant's Categorical Imperative shows that moral rules are founded on the common agreements among
rational individuals
11. The Universalizability formulation states that one must act according to the maxim that becomes a
universal law:
12. The Humanity formulation states that punishment is the only way to turn criminals, good citizens:
13. Among the Social Contract theary, Utilitarianism and Kant's deantology, only Utilitarianism
recognizes non-derivatively that non-human creatures and environment also deserve maral considerations:
14. Prisaner's dilemma supports Kant's deantolagy since one's best interest is usually canceled out by
another's best interest
15 Utilitarians believe that a person must be punished anly because he committed a crime:
16. Kant believes that an action is moral only when it is done out of the sense of duty ar good will:
17. Hobbes claims that moral laws are absolute in the sense that they do not allow any exception:
18. Aristotle states that well-being or Eudaimonia is the goal in life:
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98% 12:05 PM
Ethics Final Exam
True/False questions (2 points each)
1. Hebbes thought that the need for morality arises due to the basic conditions of human life according to
which people always find themselves in conflicts of interests:
2. According to the Social Contract Theory, morality consists in the set of rules, governing behavior, that
rational people will accept an the condition that human beings have intrinsic worth, dignity
3. Social contractarians, in general, believe that any government is better than no government since
without government marality cannot exist
4. Bentham claimed that morality is not about pleasing God, nor is it about being faithful to abstract rules.
Rather, it is about making the world as happy as possible:
5.1. S. Mill criticized Bentham's hedonist attitude and claimed that morality ought to be based on a sense
of duty as each persan is the source of all values in the warld:
6. The classical Utilitarianism endarses Hedonism in the sense that pleasure is the ultimate gaal in life:
7. The classical Utilitarianism ignores the significance of justice, individual rights and promise:
& According to Utilitarianism, ane has to treat all the people strictly equally:
9. J.J.C. Smart defended the Rule-Utilitarianism by arguing that when there is a conflict between
commonsense and the principle of utility, the principle can be wrong:
10. Kant's Categorical Imperative shows that moral rules are founded on the common agreements among
rational individuals
11. The Universalizability formulation states that one must act according to the maxim that becomes a
universal law:
12. The Humanity formulation states that punishment is the only way to turn criminals, good citizens:
13. Among the Social Contract theary, Utilitarianism and Kant's deantology, only Utilitarianism
recognizes non-derivatively that non-human creatures and environment also deserve maral considerations:
14. Prisaner's dilemma supports Kant's deantolagy since one's best interest is usually canceled out by
another's best interest
15 Utilitarians believe that a person must be punished anly because he committed a crime:
16. Kant believes that an action is moral only when it is done out of the sense of duty ar good will:
17. Hobbes claims that moral laws are absolute in the sense that they do not allow any exception:
18. Aristotle states that well-being or Eudaimonia is the goal in life:
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19. A virtue is a trait of character manifested in habitual actions, which is essential in achieving the
kingdom of ends:
20. Virtuous actions are the ones that avoid two extremes - one of excess and of deficiency:
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