Unit 1 (Ch. 1-4) Practice Quiz

"With out thinking about it, you feel an inner tension to respond" best discribes which way of responding ethically?

• personal response

• obligation

• the other

• doing the right thing

The philosophy of Aristotle is known as...

• teleogical ethics

• deontological ethics

• relativism

• fundamentalism

The "face" in Levinas' philosophy best relates to:

• the self

• conscience

• community

• the other

For Kant principles determine ones _____________.

• worth

• spirituality

• duty

• ethics

"A disorder marked by self-absorption to the exclusion of others," is called ________________.

• determinism

• pragmatism

• judgementalism

• narcissism

Which of the following is a symptom of a misinformed conscience?

• means to an end

• misinformation

• rationalization

• all of the answers are correct

Driving a car and keeping you passengers save as you travel down the road is like ____________ and reading your driver's education manual and passing your drivers knowledge test is like ____________.

• morality; ethics

• ethics; morality

• agent; other

• other; agent

According to Sigmund Freud our instinctual desires and previous experiences:

• determine our human action

• allow us freedom from sin

• are unimportant in ethics

• point the direction to how God works in our lives

Christians define freedom as:

• An illusion, as we are simply products of our environment.

• An unnecessary component to the study of ethics.

• The human capacity to do what I want, when I want.

• The human capacity to choose and to act.

Determinism is directly opposed to:

• Free will

• Freud's understanding of Id, Ego and Superego

• Predestination

• Naturalism