Ph-5/14: Do Now

Which statement best defines the concept of “ethics”?

• Ethics attempts to answer the question: "what should I do?"

• Ethics is trying to judge people by what they believe and do.

• Ethics is a society’s standards of conduct based on moral values and principles of its members.

• Characteristics that bring people praise and admiration.

What best describes Kant's Categorical Imperative?

• No exceptions, no excuses
• Rule of Reciprocity
• Rule of Respect
• Ethics over nonethics

What is deontology?

• The study of ethical development.

• The study of what one must do.

• The study of divine ethical laws.

In an ethical problem, the right choice among the alternatives is always clear.

• True
• False

Loosely referred to as "the greatest good for the greatest number"

• deontology
• utilitarianism
• egoism
• hedonism

Those who believe that moral decisions affect moral characters follow which of the follow systems?

• Virtue Ethics

• Consequentialism or Utlitarianism

• Deontology or the Categorical Imperative

• Social Contract Theory

• Egoism

The belief that one must always fulfill one's duty or obligations is best associated with which of the following theories?

• Virtue

• Consequentialism or Utlitarianism

• Deontology or the Categorical Imperative

• Social Contract Theory

• Egoism

To have a group of ideas that help people make consistent and thoughtful ethical choices is knows as...

• An ethical system

• Ideology

• Religion

• Faith

How is character developed, according to Aristotle?

• When a person follows the rules

• When a person calculates all the possible consequences of an action and makes a decision based on the best outcome

• When a person makes virtues into habits

What is the Golden Mean?

• The understanding of virtues as midpoints between two extremes

• An extreme amount of a good quality

• A number whose terms go on forever after its decimal point without repeating