Ethics Midterm Review

This German philosopher thought he had the perfect theory of ethics in his deontological approach

• Jeremy Bentham
• John Stuart Mill
• Immanuel Kant
• Friedrich Nietzsche

According to Jean Paul Sartre, Existence precedes ....

• Arrogance
• Effervescence 
• Essence 
• Existence 

Which of the following is also called "rule ethics" because of its emphasis on following maxims from the categorical imperative?

• Utilitarianism
• Deontology
• Organic Solidarity
• Existentialism

Friedrich Nietzsche believed we need to go beyond good and evil because

• The world is not black and white
• Both are wrong, according to some
• Both are socially constructed
• All of the above

Berger and Luckmann wrote the Social Construction of Reality to talk about how subjective meanings become....

• Objective facts
• Organically understood
• Religion
• Good and Evil

This is the name of the Nazi bureaucrat who was the subject of Hannah Arendt's book about the banality of evil

• Adolf Hitler
• Adolf Himmler
• Adolf Eichmann
• Martin Heidegger 

The three phases of the social construction of reality are Externalization, Objectivation and....

• Realification
• Reality construct
• Internalization
• Intensification 

This class take the stance that Ethics is...

• A choice
• A formula to be followed 
• knowing when to do the right thing
• Following the law

This philosopher believed that our choices define us and that we are all condemned to be free

• Jean Paul Sartre
• Friedrich Nietzsche 
• Emile Durkheim
• Dana Lennox

Which of the following is socially constructed?

• Our measurement of time
• Money
• Economy
• All of the above