WorksheetsEthics revision
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Virtue Ethics focus on the _____________ of the individual
Action
Experience
Mind
Character
Which of these is a deficient vice of bravery?
Rash
Unfriendly
Cowardly
Modesty
Which of the following is a contribution of virtue ethics?
Encourages the cultivation of human excellence
Virtue is of a very personal nature
People of good character can do bad
People of bad character can do good
True or False: Someone who does an action because they have to do it is displaying virtue ethics.
True
False
Aristotle said that bad people have bad character traits called...?
(a)
Aristotle had a strong influence on what philosopher?
Aquinas
Socrates
Plato
What is eudaimonia?
The "final end", the summum bonum (greatest good) for a person.
Fulfilling one's duty.
When someone is utilizing their skills.
Which of these could be an objection to Aristotle?
Achieving eudaimonia is only possible if you dedicate your life to theoretical reasoning.
The "mean" may not be the same for everyone.
Virtues can clash.
Telos means...
Happiness
Virtue
Purpose/ end
Rule
TRUE OR FALSE: Being virtuous is a skill that can be developed.
True
False
What is Virtue Ethics?
The ethical theory that someone is morally good if he/she has a virtuous character
The ethical theory that the best choice in any situation is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people
The ethical theory that actions are good or bad according to a clear set of rules
The ethical theory that society is based on an agreement that gives certain rights to all people and sees everyone transfer some rights to one person (who uses those rights to uphold justice)
What is Deontology?
The ethical theory that someone is morally good if he/she has a virtuous character
The ethical theory that the best choice in any situation is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people
The ethical theory that actions are good or bad according to a clear set of rules
The ethical theory that society is based on an agreement that gives certain rights to all people and sees everyone transfer some rights to one person (who uses those rights to uphold justice)
What are teleological ethics?
Primary considering the individual rather than any rules.
Practicality; the action chosen to be practically applicable.
Ethics which look at the end result in order to determine the morality of an action.
Agapeic love
What does ‘pragmatism’ mean?
Agapeic love
Practicality; the action chosen to be practically applicable.
Primary considering the individual rather than any rules.
Ethics which look at the end result in order to determine the morality of an action.
According to Fletcher, what is the only thing that is intrinsically good?
Love distribution
Being without and opposed to having rules or laws.
Conscience
Agapeic love
What does Fletcher say that justice consists of?
Conscience
Pragmatism
Love distribution
Personalism
What is meant by antinomianism?
Being without and opposed to having rules or laws.
Following the rules
Love distribution
Agapeic love
1. Fletcher’s four principles involve relativism, pragmatism, Personalism and what else?
Conscience
Personalism
pragmatism
relativism
What is the fifth of Fletchers six propositions?
Christian decision making is based on love
Love wants the good for anyone, whoever they are
Love is acted out situationally not prescriptivally
If love is the end result, then any means are justified.
Does Fletcher agree that the morality of an action should be judged by its consequences?
Yes
No
What might a follower of Situation Ethics think about a law that completely banned Euthanasia?
Wrong
Right
Right in some circumstances
Which Christian Church predominantly uses Natural Law theory?
Catholic Church
Church of England
Methodist Church
I don't know
With which Saint is the theory most closely associated?
Thomas a Beckett
Doubting Thomas
Thomas Aquinas
i don't know
Which of the following is the definition of absolutism?
Actions are good and bad in themselves
Actions are good or bad depending on the circumstances
Actions are good or bad depending on the intenion of the agent
I don't know
Which is the best definition of Natural Law?
A mainly deontological theory that has elements of teleology.
A mainly teleological theory that has elements of deontology.
A system of virtue ethics.
I don't know
Which of the following are the first and fourth levels of Aquinas' four levels of law?
Eternal and Human
Eternal and Natural
Divine and Human
Divine and Natural
I don't know
What is the synderesis rule?
Do good and avoid evildoers
Do good and avoid evil
Do evil and avoid good.
I don't know
Which of the following is NOT a Primary Precept?
Preserve innocent life
Worship God
Reproduce the species
Do not steal
I don't know
What is an interior action?
The intention behind a moral action.
The action that results from an intention.
Neither of the above.
I don't know
NML stands for
New Modern Law
Natural Mindfulness Laws
Natural Moral Law
Never Mow Lawns
Which of these 2 things did Thomas Aquinas bring together to form Natural Moral Law theory?
Plato and Aristotle's thinking
Aristotle's Philosophy with Greek myths
Theology and Mysticism
Aristotle's philosophy and Biblical theology
Aquinas believed that "Nature has an inbuilt teleology" - what does this mean?
Every living thing is designed for a purpose (by God)
All creatures have internal motors
All living things are Christians
Nature follows a step by step plan
Which of these books did Thomas Aquinas write?
The Da Vinci Code
The Constant Gardener
The Summa Theologica
The Bible
Which of these is NOT something Thomas Aquinas included in his Natural Law theory?
People are made by God for a purpose
The universe is designed with order and purpose
People should do good and avoid evil
People can invent what they think is right and what is wrong
Natural Moral Law assumes that there is a set of things that are right and a set that are wrong, no matter who you are. Is it:
Absolutist?
Relative?
