Quiz on Ancient and Modern Ethics

Who is often considered the father of Western ethics?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Epicurus

What is the highest Form according to Plato?

• The Form of the Good

• Justice

• Virtue

• Eudaimonia

What concept did Aristotle introduce in his *Nicomachean Ethics*?

• Virtue ethics

• Deontological ethics

• Utilitarianism

• Existentialism

What does Epicureanism argue is the highest good?

• Pleasure

• Virtue

• Knowledge

• Justice

Who argued that true law is universal and unchangeable?

• Cicero

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

What did Augustine of Hippo emphasize for moral living?

• Divine grace

• Natural law

• Social contract

• Pleasure

What is the foundational text of Thomas Aquinas?

• Nicomachean Ethics

• Summa Theologica

• Leviathan

• A Theory of Justice

What did Hobbes argue for in his work *Leviathan*?

• Social contract

• Virtue ethics

• Utilitarianism

• Existentialism

What principle did Kant emphasize in his ethics?

• Categorical imperative

• Greatest happiness principle

• Virtue ethics

• Natural rights

Who developed the idea of the *Übermensch*?

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Immanuel Kant

• David Hume

• John Locke