WorksheetsEthics
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
When we call someone a ‘responsible person’ or remark that someone ‘conducts themselves responsibly’,
we refer to a positive character trait.
Responsibility as attribution
Responsibility as a virtue
Responsibility as obligation
Accountability
Liability
This is related to responsibility but with a narrower meaning and is defined as being open to judgement by one’s peers or by the entire society.
Responsibility as attribution
Responsibility as a virtue
Responsibility as obligation
Accountability
Liability
This refers to the responsibility of fulfilling one’s legal obligations.
Responsibility as attribution
Responsibility as a virtue
Responsibility as obligation
Accountability
Liability
Responsibility involves a certain activity entrusted or assigned or a duty or job inherent in a position.
Responsibility as attribution
Responsibility as a virtue
Responsibility as obligation
Accountability
Liability
This meaning of responsibility indicates who is required to compensate for damages due to misbehavior.
Responsibility as attribution
Responsibility as a virtue
Responsibility as obligation
Accountability
Liability
This means that responsibility refers to voluntary actions and those entailing a rational choice made of a person’s free will as opposed to being made as the result of coercion or duress.
Consent of the will
Voluntariness
Knowledge
Accountability
Liability
By virtue of living in structured society, we acquire this responsibility which is determined by laws and other legitimate regulations promulgated by the public authorities.
Environmental responsibility
Legal responsibility
Moral responsibility
Social responsibility
This type of responsibility entails being answerable for impacts and not to cause harm
to society or those affected by an action.
Environmental responsibility
Legal responsibility
Moral responsibility
Social responsibility
This type of responsibility refers to the evaluation of the human quality of an
action in terms of good or bad, right or wrong.
Environmental responsibility
Legal responsibility
Moral responsibility
Social responsibility
It is said that we possess this responsibility that consists of acting only after possessing proper justification.
Antecedent responsibility
Consequent responsibility
Congruent responsibility
Transcendent responsibility
This responsibility is derived from discovering a personal calling or ‘vocation’ to carry out a
certain mission in the world.
Antecedent responsibility
Consequent responsibility
Congruent responsibility
Transcendent responsibility
This form of responsibility refers to a ‘vital’ attitude of acting consistently and in harmony with what one is.
Antecedent responsibility
Consequent responsibility
Congruent responsibility
Transcendent responsibility
This form of responsibility owns up to the consequences of one’s actions, seeking to attribute them to someone else.
Antecedent responsibility
Consequent responsibility
Congruent responsibility
Transcendent responsibility
Limited or lack of voluntariness can be affected by various causes, including mental illness
and other diseases.
Strong emotions
Mental illness or physical factors
Intellectual fear
Sociological factors
Existence of force
Lack of voluntariness can be affected by an understanding of a possible evil and a movement of the will to avoid it by rationally devised means.
Strong emotions
Mental illness or physical factors
Intellectual fear
Sociological factors
Existence of force
Lack of voluntariness can be affected by a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts and behavior.
Strong emotions
Mental illness or physical factors
Intellectual fear
Sociological factors
Existence of force
Lack of voluntariness can be related to the cultural and social environment, customs and genuine pressures from the immediate work environment.
Strong emotions
Mental illness or physical factors
Intellectual fear
Sociological factors
Existence of force
This conduct is characterized by a conscious and dangerous disregard of others’ safety or well-being, resulting in the creation of an obvious and substantial risk of harm.
Strong emotions
Recklessness
Whistle-blowing
Negligence
Existence of force
This refers to reporting an organization’s unethical practices by a current or former employee, either within the organization or publicly.
Strong emotions
Recklessness
Whistle-blowing
Negligence
Existence of force
This entails a failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances.
Strong emotions
Recklessness
Whistle-blowing
Negligence
Existence of force
