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ETHICS- 2nd sem by CABS
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  • 1. He thinks that there are higher intellectual and lower base pleasure. We, as moral agents, are capable of searching and desiring higher intellectual pleasures more than animal are capable of
A) Jeremy Bentham
B) John stuart Mill
  • 2. Ethics is also called ________ or precisely, the other name of Ethics is
A) Applied Morality
B) Moral Philosophy
  • 3. It is a common currency framework that calculates the pleasure that some actions can produce.
A) Felicific Calculus
B) Filecefic Calculus
  • 4. Consequences to be considered are those of everyone affected.
A) hedonism
B) universalism
  • 5. According to Jeremy Bentham an action is right if and only if it produces the greatest balance of pleasure over pain for the greatest number. What kind of utilitarianism is this?
A) rule utilitarianism
B) act utilitarianism
  • 6. According to Jeremy Bentham, man is under two great masters, namely
A) pleasures & pain
B) pleasure & pain
  • 7. An English philosopher, political radical and legal and social reformer of the early Modern period.
A) aristotle
B) Jeremy Bentham
  • 8. This theory emphasizes Ends over Means.
A) rule utilitarianism
B) utilitarianism
  • 9. This is not only about our individual pleasures, regardless of how high, intellectual, or in other ways noble it is, but it is also about the pleasure of the greatest number affected by the consequences of our actions.
A) principle of ethics
B) principle of greatest number or principle of greatest happiness
  • 10. bad things that we should avoid; the right ways in which we could or should act and the wrong ways of acting.
A) Ethics
B) pain
  • 11. “__________” investigates where our ethical principles come from, and what they mean.
A) Metaethics
B) pleasure
  • 12. Ethics may involve. EXCEPT
A) pain
B) Prohibitions
C) Obligations
D) ideals
  • 13. Right and wrong action but not grave enough to belong to the discussion on ethics.
A) Etiquette
B) Ethics
  • 14. Proper way (or right way) of doing things.
A) Technical valuation
B) Technique and technical
  • 15. right and wrong
A) Technique and technical
B) Technical valuation
  • 16. It is about determining the grounds for the values with particular and special significance to human life
A) Ethics
B) utilitarianism
  • 17. Specific beliefs or attitudes that people have or to describe acts that people perform.
A) Value
B) Morals
  • 18. Work of a Social Scientist: EXCEPT
A) Historian
B) Anthropologist
C) love
D) Sociologist
  • 19. Reports how people, particularly groups, make their moral valuations without making any judgment either for or against these valuations.
A) DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF ETHICS
B) NORMATIVE STUDY OF ETHICS
  • 20. Prescribes what we ought to maintain as our standards or bases for oral valuation.
A) DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF ETHICS
B) NORMATIVE STUDY OF ETHICS
  • 21. Imagine a situation wherein a person cannot afford a certain item, but the possibility presents itself for her to steal it.
A) Moral Decision
B) Moral Issue
  • 22. When a person is an observer who makes an assessment on the actions or behavior of someone…
A) Moral Dilemma
B) Moral Judgement
  • 23. When one is placed in a situation and confronted by the choice of what act to perform…
A) Moral Judgement
B) Moral Decision
  • 24. More complicated situation wherein one is torn between choosing one of two goods or choosing between the lesser of two evils.
A) Moral Issue
B) Moral Dilemma
  • 25. Systematic attempt to establish the validity of maintaining certain moral principles.
A) Moral Value
B) Moral Theory
  • 26. a theory, a system of thought or of ideas.
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B) Framework
  • 27. We can use the term “_________” as a theory of interconnected ideas, and at the same time, a structure through which we can evaluate our reasons for valuing a certain decision or judgment.
A) moral
B) framework
  • 28. An individual can choose only one from a number of possible actions, and there are compelling ethical reasons for the various choices.
A) Moral Dilemma
B) Moral Judgement
  • 29. “A friend of mine chooses to steal from the store, and I make an assessment that it is wrong.”
A) Moral Issue
B) Moral Judgement
  • 30. “I choose not to take something I did not pay for.”
A) Moral Issue
B) Moral Decision
  • 31. This is a matter of ethics (not just law) insofar as it involves the question of respect for one’s property.
A) Moral Dilemma
B) Moral Issue
  • 32. Sources of Authority. EXCEPT
A) The authority of one’s religion
B) DHHG
C) The authority of one’s own culture
D) The authority of the law
  • 33. The authority of the law
A) Supposed that it is one’s guide to ethical behavior.
B) One should obey the law.
  • 34. The Authority of One’s Religion
A) There is a wide diversity of how different people believe it is proper to act.
B) “Love the Lord, your God, therefore, and always heed his charge: his statutes, decrees, and commandments.”
  • 35. The authority of one’s own culture
A) Supposed that it is one’s guide to ethical behavior.
B) There is a wide diversity of how different people believe it is proper to act.
  • 36. rules and regulations that are posited or put forward by an authority figure that require compliance.
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B) Positive law
  • 37. is it wrong because God commanded it, or that killing is in itself wrong, and that is the reason why God commanded it?
A) killing
B) Rightness
  • 38. is it right because God commanded it, or something is right in itself wrong, and that is the reason why God commanded it?
A) killing
B) Rightness
  • 39. what is ethically acceptable and unacceptable is relative to, or that is to say, dependent od one’s culture.
A) Cultural relativism
B) Conceptual level
  • 40. It is sometimes thought that one should not rely on any external authority to tell oneself what the standards of moral valuation are, but should instead turn inwards.
A) Senses of the Self
B) SUBJECTIVISM
  • 41. Three theories about ethics that center on the self EXCEPT
A) Psychological egoism
B) GJDGJD
C) Subjectivism
D) Ethical egoism
  • 42. The more radical claim is that the individual is the sole determinant of what is morally good or bad, right or wrong,
A) Subjectivism
B) Psychological egoism
  • 43. a theory that describes the underlying dynamic behind all human actions.
A) Psychological egoism
B) Subjectivism
  • 44. Human beings are naturally self-centered, so all our actions are always already motivated by our self interest.
A) PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM
B) SUBJECTIVISM
  • 45. It prescribes that we should make our own ends, our own interests, as the single overriding concern.
A) ETHICAL EGOISM
B) PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM
  • 46. This theory acknowledges that it is a dog-eat-dog world out there and given that, everyone ought to put herself at the center.
A) ETHICAL EGOISM
B) PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM
  • 47. The rightness of actions is determined solely by their consequences.
A) Hedonism
B) Consequentialism
  • 48. A right action produces the greatest good consequences and the least bad.
A) Hedonism
B) Maximalism
  • 49. thesis that pleasure or happiness is the good that we seek and that we should seek.
A) Maximalism
B) Hedonism
  • 50. The consequences to be considered are those of everyone affected, and everyone equally.
A) Universalism
B) Maximalism
  • 51. The best action is that which produces the greatest happiness and/or reduces pain.
A) Greatest Happiness
B) Principle of Utility
  • 52. We ought to do that which produces the greatest happiness and least pain for the greatest number of people.
A) Greatest Happiness:
B) Principle of Utility
  • 53. An Action is right if and only if it produces the greatest balance of pleasure over pain for the greatest number.
A) Act Utilitarianism
B) Rule Utilitarianism
  • 54. An action is right if and only if it conforms to a set of rules the general acceptance of which would produce the greatest balance of pleasure over pain for the greatest number.
A) Rule Utilitarianism
B) Act Utilitarianism
  • 55. the Act was a good act.
A) You attempt to help an elderly man across the street. He gets across safely.
B) You attempt to help an elderly man across the street. You stumble as you go, he is knocked into the path of a car, and is hurt.
  • 56. The Act was a bad act.
A) You attempt to help an elderly man across the street. He gets across safely.
B) You attempt to help an elderly man across the street. You stumble as you go, he is knocked into the path of a car, and is hurt.
  • 57. If lying or stealing will actually bring about more happiness and/or reduce pain, Act Utilitarianism says we should lie and steal in those cases.
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B) Application of Utilitarian Theory
  • 58. theory could mean that if 10 people would be happy watching a man being eaten by wild dogs, it would be a morally good thing for the 10 men to kidnap someone and throw the man into a cage of wild, hungry dogs.
A) Criticisms of Jeremy's theory
B) Criticisms of Bentham’s theory
  • 59. ______________ criticizes the implied “doctrine of negative responsibility” in Utilitarianism.
A) Jeremy Bentham
B) Bernard William
  • 60. refers to the usefulness of the consequences of one’s action and behavior.
A) utility
B) Utilitarianism
  • 61. is an ethical theory that argues for the goodness of pleasure and the determination of right behavior based on the usefulness of the action’s consequences.
A) Utilitarianism
B) utility
  • 62. is about our subjection to these sovereign masters: pleasure and pain. On the
A) AEGG
B) The principle of utility
  • 63. is a common currency framework that calculates the pleasure that some actions can produce.
A) VSDGRR
B) Felicific calculus
  • 64. Bentham provides a framework for evaluating pleasure and pain commonly called _____________
A) IHBH
B) Felicific calculus
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