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SEATWORK 1.4 MORAL AND LEGAL DIMENSIONS

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, it is an ordinance of reason promulgated by him who has charge of the community, for the common good.

(a)  

2.
Which statement best defines the concept of “ethics”?
a)
Ethics is the ability to tell the difference in right and wrong behavior.
b)
Ethics is trying to judge people by what they believe and do.
c)
Ethics is a society’s standards of conduct based on moral values and principles of its members.
d)
Characteristics that bring people praise and admiration.
3.

James has a belief that the death penalty is wrong in all cases. This would be an example of his __________?

a)

Personality

b)

Morals

c)

Ethics

d)

Culture

4.

A person's morals and their companies ethics will never create conflict?

a)

True

b)

False

5.

While transporting an unconscious person to the hospital your partner decides to look through the patints purse for money. This is would be considered __________?

a)

Ethical

b)

Unethical

6.

When you go to pay for your coffee the manager tells you that it's free because you're a police officer. If you decide not to pay this would be considered?

a)

Ethical

b)

Unethical

7.
Illegal actions are 
a)
usually unethical. 
b)
seldom unethical. 
c)
not unethical. 
d)
not related to ethics. 
8.

It is the divine reason itself, directing the actions of will, whereby God wishes that all things should direct their actions according to reason and to their proper end, according to St. Thomas Aquinas.

(a)  

9.

It is a law which governs all things of nature, irrational creatures and also the physical nature of a person.

(a)  

10.

It is an external law which applies to an individual as a rational being and is imprinted in his/her conscience.

(a)  

11.

It is the practical judgement of the mind upon the morality of certain acts.

(a)  

12.

It applies to people only and may emanate either from God or from an authorized human legislator.

(a)  

13.

It is the aspect of life which has something to do with the rightness or wrongness or the goodness or viciousness of human action.

(a)  

14.

Man by nature is a subject not only to physical laws, but also the moral law.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Norms can either be prescriptive (what not to do) or proscriptive (what the individual has to do).

a)

True

b)

False