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A hospital must choose between funding a cancer ward that helps a few severely ill patients or a wellness center that benefits thousands moderately. A utilitarian would most likely endorse:
The cancer ward because severe illness matters more
The wellness center because it yields greater total utility
The cancer ward because suffering deserves priority
Neither; both are morally equal
A pharmacist refuses to inflate medicine prices during a disaster despite losing profit. A Kantian would say the pharmacist acts morally because:
Helping the poor maximizes utility
Fair pricing is a duty that can be universalized
Profits violate natural law
Disaster rules override self-interest
A city prioritizes police drones over mental health services. A Rawlsian critique would focus on:
Lack of transparency
How the least advantaged are affected
Whether drones increase pleasure
How natural inclinations are preserved
A student cheats on one exam “just this once” to keep a scholarship for her family. A deontologist would say the act is wrong because:
It harms others directly
Cheating cannot be universalized without contradiction
Utility is lost
It harms the least advantaged
A doctor may administer high-dose morphine to relieve extreme pain, foreseeing that it may speed death. Under the Principle of Double Effect, this is:
Impermissible because death is foreseen
Permissible because pain relief is the intended good
Permissible only if death is intended
Impermissible because no bad effect is ever allowed
A CEO donates millions to charity only for favorable publicity. A virtue ethicist would argue the action is:
Moral because it helps society
Morally deficient because the motive lacks virtue
Unimportant because motive is irrelevant
Moral because generosity is displayed publicly
A bureaucrat denies welfare applications to reduce government expenses. A utilitarian evaluation depends on:
Whether the denial increases total happiness
Whether denying is legal
Whether taxpayers approve
Whether it is universalizable
A government censors violent films, claiming it protects public morality. According to Mill’s Harm Principle, this is justified only if:
Violence is unpopular
The films directly harm others
The films lower happiness
Censorship benefits the majority
A journalist exposes a scandal that destabilizes the economy but reveals truth about government corruption. A Kantian would prioritize:
Economic stability
Truth as a moral duty
Happiness of the majority
Government authority
A scientist withholds a discovery that could save lives because she wants more time to perfect it. Natural law would condemn this because:
Truth is a higher pleasure
Seeking knowledge requires sharing truth
Scientists must obey duties
Knowledge increases utility
A teacher chooses student leaders based on beauty, not competence. A justice-as-fairness view sees this as unjust because:
Beauty increases happiness
It denies fair equality of opportunity
Students prefer attractive leaders
The majority benefits
A factory pollutes a river but provides thousands of jobs. A classic utilitarian might justify pollution if:
The jobs produce more overall happiness than the harm
The company profits
The government approves
Animals are unaffected
A priest lies to protect a refugee from violent captors. Kantian ethics holds that:
Lying is always morally wrong
Protecting life is the higher duty
Consequences justify the lie
Morality is subjective here
A pharmacy raises prices after a natural disaster. A virtue ethicist criticizes the decision because it lacks:
Temperance
Justice and compassion
Courage
Piety
A public school distributes limited computers. Under Rawls, they should be given based on:
First come, first served
Greatest benefit to the least advantaged
Highest academic rank
Random allocation
A military commander bombs a weapons factory, knowing civilians may die. Under Double Effect, this is permissible if:
Civilians are the intended target
Civilian deaths are unintended but foreseen
The commander intends both outcomes
Civilian losses equal military gains
A nurse treats a rude patient with equal care. Kant would call her action moral because:
It increases happiness
She follows duty regardless of inclination
She supports natural inclination
It aligns with the Difference Principle
A rich country refuses aid to the poor, claiming self-reliance is important. Utilitarianism would object if:
Aid raises total happiness
Self-reliance is natural
Aid violates duty
Poor nations disagree
A taxi driver refuses to transport disabled passengers because it takes more time. According to virtue ethics, this violates:
Courage
Justice
Piety
Temperance
A town replaces low-income housing with luxury condos. A Rawlsian critique says this harms justice because:
Luxury living is wasteful
The least advantaged are displaced
Tourism increases harm
Lower utility results
A doctor refuses to perform euthanasia even if the patient begs for it. Under natural law, this aligns with:
Duty
The inclination to preserve life
Consequence-based morality
The Difference Principle
A manager fires an honest but unproductive worker to save the company. A Kantian critique would say:
Productivity outweighs dignity
Workers cannot be treated merely as means
Utility matters more
Firing is justified if majority agrees
A parent steals luxury food during famine rather than basic nourishment. Utilitarianism criticizes this because:
Stealing never increases utility
Luxury food benefits fewer people
Stealing violates rights
Famine eliminates moral rules
A city adds bike lanes but cuts disability services. A justice-as-fairness evaluation finds it unjust because:
Bike lanes bring lower pleasure
Disabilities create least-advantaged status
Bike lanes are non-essential
Utility must be prioritized
A programmer builds an AI to prioritize the oldest patient in emergencies. A utilitarian would object because:
Age has no intrinsic moral weight
The greatest good is not ensured
It violates natural inclinations
Doctors deserve authority
A man lies to a friend to avoid hurting feelings. Kant thinks the lie is:
Moral if intention is kind
Immoral because it cannot be universalized
Permissible if harm is avoided
Neutral if consequences are small
A developer destroys wetlands to build affordable housing. Natural law stresses:
Wetlands preserve life
Humans must protect the natural order
The poor must be helped
Knowledge must be promoted
A president withholds economic data until after elections. Virtue ethics criticizes this because it lacks:
Temperance
Honesty
Prudence
Piety
A police officer tortures a suspect to prevent a bombing. Kant says this is wrong because:
Utility matters most
Persons must never be used merely as means
It is acceptable if it prevents greater harm
It is justified under Double Effect
A wealthy donor funds hospitals but requires naming rights. A virtue ethicist judges the donor as:
Just
Lacking humility
Courageous
Following duty
A teacher flunks an entire class because most students failed to submit one assignment. Rawls would say this violates:
Utility
Fair equality of opportunity
Duty
Natural inclination
A woman speeds to take her father to the hospital and hits another car. Under Double Effect, the harm is:
Intended
Foreseen but unintended
Permissible because urgent
Not morally relevant
A restaurant owner bans children to create a quiet environment. Utilitarianism evaluates this based on:
Children’s rights
Greatest total happiness
Duty to treat people equally
Natural inclinations
A student refuses to cheat despite pressure from friends. Kant would say the student acts from:
Inclination
Duty
Consequence reasoning
Utility maximization
A hospital board uses lottery to allocate scarce kidneys. Rawls might object because:
Lottery is unfair
Allocation should benefit the least advantaged
Kidneys hold no value
Utility matters more
A company replaces humans with robots. A virtue ethicist asks whether the decision demonstrates:
Courage
Justice and prudence
Pleasure
Natural inclination
A mother lies to her child about a painful medical procedure to prevent anxiety. Kant says:
Lying is wrong even with good intentions
Protection justifies deception
Motherhood grants moral exception
Children do not count in universalization
A village cuts education funding to build a resort. Utilitarians object because:
Education produces long-term utility
Resorts bring lower pleasure
Children deserve rights
Luxury is immoral
A wealthy employer pays workers below living wage because it is legal. Rawls would say the pay is unjust if:
Workers are least advantaged
Laws allow inequality
Workers accept the job
Profit is necessary
A doctor chooses to treat the patient with the highest survival chance. Utilitarianism supports this because:
Rational nature requires it
It maximizes survival outcomes
It promotes higher pleasures
Duty requires it
A girl steals her bully’s wallet to “teach a lesson.” Kant says:
Wrong because universalizing theft creates contradiction
Moral because motive is reform
Neutral because bully deserves it
Natural inclination justifies it
A principal expels a student for breaking rules once. Virtue ethics would ask whether the punishment shows:
Justice and temperance
Highest utility
Obedience to law
Divine command
A physicist falsifies minor data to match theory. Natural law condemns this because it violates:
Preservation
Truth-seeking inclination
Pleasure
Liberty
A city taxes the rich heavily to fund universal healthcare. Rawls supports this if:
It benefits the least advantaged
The rich consent
It maximizes utility
It aligns with natural law
A priest refuses to baptize a child of unmarried parents. Virtue ethics criticizes this for lacking:
Modesty
Compassion
Piety
Temperance
A soldier risks his life to save comrades. A virtue ethicist would call this:
Courageous
Universally wrong
Utility-maximizing
Unjust
A judge sentences a poor thief more harshly than a wealthy fraudster. Rawls says justice is violated because:
Thieves deserve worse
Inequality must benefit all
Equality before the law fails
Utility is decreased
A mother refuses life-saving surgery for religious reasons. Natural law critiques her because she violates:
Pleasure
Preservation of life
Social inclination
Knowledge-seeking
A manager pressures workers to work overtime “voluntarily.” Kant calls this:
Manipulation that fails respect for persons
Utility-maximizing
Virtuous
Permissible
A school prioritizes sports over academics. Utilitarianism objects if:
Long-term education loss reduces utility
Students prefer sports
Officials enjoy sports
Natural inclinations are harmed
A doctor refuses to give antibiotics for a viral infection though patients demand it. Kant says the doctor acts:
According to duty
From inclination
Against universal law
Against utility
A government restricts speech to reduce misinformation. Mill’s Harm Principle opposes this if:
Speech harms only the speaker
Truth is unpopular
Government must protect order
Majority agrees
A community allows only wealthy families to vote in local elections. Rawls would say this violates:
The liberty principle
Natural inclination
Utilitarianism
Virtue ethics
A father gives his children full freedom even when harmful. Virtue ethics says he lacks:
Prudence
Courage
Temperance
Piety
A business lies about sustainability to gain customers. Kantian ethics says this is:
Permissible for economic survival
Immoral because lying cannot be universalized
Acceptable if consumers benefit
Neutral because norms vary
A scientist clones human organs to save lives. Natural law may object because:
Cloning undermines natural purpose
Utility decreases
Cloning is a duty
Knowledge increases
A university admits students purely on exam scores. Rawls says this is unfair if:
Exam access is unequal
Smart students deserve advantage
Equality requires sameness
Utility is high
A boss demotes a worker to motivate others. Virtue ethics says the act lacks:
Courage
Justice
Prudence
Temperance
A doctor withholds treatment from smokers to “teach them a lesson.” Kant says:
Immoral—patients cannot be used as means
Moral—choices have consequences
Depends on utility
Natural law justifies it
A town cuts arts funding for a military base. Utilitarianism supports the cut if:
National security yields greater net utility
Arts cause trouble
A nurse lies to keep a patient calm before surgery. Kant says this is wrong because:
Lying cannot be universalized
It lowers utility
Patients deserve fear
Nurses must follow natural law
A student refuses to help a peer because “no one helped me.” Rawls objects because:
Reciprocity is irrational
Opportunity must be fair
Utility must be maximized
Virtues require selfishness
A company automates dangerous jobs. Natural law approves because:
It protects life
It maximizes utility
Robots seek truth
Laws allow it
A man lies to impress others. Virtue ethics condemns this because it lacks:
Honesty
Courage
Temperance
Piety
A company hires only men for leadership because “men lead better.” A Rawlsian says this violates:
Fair equality of opportunity
Utility maximization
Duty
Natural inclinations
An officer kills an attacker to protect civilians. According to Double Effect, the action is:
Wrong because death is intended
Permissible because self-defense is a good act
Wrong unless civilians ask
Impermissible because violence is always wrong
A teacher inflates grades to make her school look good. Kant says this is:
Immoral because dishonesty violates duty
Good because students feel happy
Neutral
Acceptable because outcomes improve
A city spends millions on statues while hospitals lack supplies. Utilitarians object because:
Hospitals create more happiness
Statues are immoral
Art violates duty
Necessity is subjective
A father forces his child into a career. Virtue ethics objects because it lacks:
Compassion
Wisdom (prudence)
Temperance
Courage
A landowner allows only wealthy families to rent rooms. Rawls objects because:
Inequality fails to benefit the least advantaged
Wealth is natural
Utility is irrelevant
Rent is private property
A medic treats enemy soldiers equally. Kant calls this:
Duty
Weakness
Utility reasoning
Immoral
A school suspends a student for questioning rules respectfully. Virtue ethics says the school lacks:
Justice
Courage
Piety
Prudence
A doctor gives unnecessary tests to increase hospital revenue. Kant says this uses patients:
As ends
As means only
As utility
As natural agents
A government distributes vaccines first to high-income earners. A Rawlsian critique:
Just because the rich pay more taxes
Unjust because it does not prioritize the least advantaged
Acceptable if utility increases
Acceptable if legal
A nurse refuses to help a dying patient because it is “not her shift.” Virtue ethics says she lacks:
Courage
Compassion
Prudence
Temperance
The Hedonistic Calculus includes all EXCEPT:
Intensity
Propinquity
Fecundity
Autonomy
Bentham believed morality is determined by:
Motives
Consequences of pleasure and pain
Divine command
Social contract
Mill distinguished between:
Duties and inclinations
Higher and lower pleasures
Laws and rights
Justice and utility
True or False: Mill believed higher pleasures require human rational capacities.
True
False
The first principle of natural law is:
Do good and avoid evil
Maximize pleasure
Follow authority
Seek equality
True or False: Natural law is humans’ participation in eternal law.
True
False
According to Kant, the only thing good without qualification is:
Happiness
Wisdom
Good will
Pleasure
The categorical imperative is:
A hypothetical rule
An unconditional moral principle
Based on consequences
A natural inclination
True or False: Kant says an act has moral worth only when performed from duty.
True
False
Rawls’ veil of ignorance ensures principles are chosen:
Selfishly
Without knowledge of personal advantages
For maximum utility
Based on natural inclination
True or False: In Rawls’ theory, liberty must be equal for all.
True
False
The Difference Principle requires inequalities to benefit:
The rich
Everyone equally
The least advantaged
Government officials
Virtue ethics focuses primarily on:
Consequences
Character
Utility
Law
True or False: For Aristotle, eudaimonia means momentary pleasure.
True
False
Natural inclinations include all EXCEPT:
Self-preservation
Reproduction
Knowledge
Wealth accumulation
Mill’s Harm Principle allows restricting liberty when actions:
Offend others
Harm others
Lower personal pleasure
Break tradition
True or False: Bentham believed all pleasures are equal.
True
False
Kant believed moral laws must be:
Relativistic
Based on universal reason
Derived from feelings
Based on outcomes
Rawls’ equal liberty principle guarantees:
Maximum income
Fair political rights
Equal wealth
Equal pleasures
Virtue is defined as a mean between:
Good and evil
Two extremes
Utility and duty
Law and freedom
True or False: Justice as fairness begins with the basic structure of society.
True
False
Double Effect requires all EXCEPT:
The act must be good or neutral
The bad effect must be intended
The good must outweigh the bad
The bad must not be the means
Kantian ethics emphasizes:
Consequences
Character
Duty
Feelings
According to natural law, moral truths are objective.
True
False
Virtue ethics says virtue is cultivated by:
Rules
Habit
Inclination
Utility
Rawls’ original position is:
A historical event
A hypothetical scenario
A legal doctrine
A religious idea
In Mill, rights are grounded in utility.
True
False
Kant calls treating people merely as means a violation of:
Utility
Humanity formula
Natural law
Difference Principle
Natural law rejects relativism because:
Reason is universal
Utility varies
Consequences change
Religion requires it
For Aristotle, virtue requires both right reason and right desire.
True
False
Mill believed society should intervene in actions that:
Harm only the agent
Harm others
Are unpopular
Are irrational
The categorical imperative demands:
Utility maximization
Self-legislation
Legal obedience
Emotion-based morality
Rawls allows inequality if it benefits everyone.
True
False
Bentham’s calculus measures pleasure in:
Hedons
Rationality units
Virtues
Rights
Virtue ethics claims that flourishing is:
A feeling
A rational activity
The absence of pain
External success
Natural law includes inclinations toward social and political life.
True
False
Kant’s hypothetical imperative is based on:
Duty
Desire
Utility
Nature
Rawls’ theory is rooted in:
Utilitarianism
Social contract
Natural law
Divine command
According to Aristotle, happiness is chosen for its own sake.
True
False
The Harm Principle protects:
Majority values
Individual liberty
Religious norms
Natural inclinations
Justice requires eliminating all economic inequality.
True
False
Double Effect forbids:
Causing harm as a means
Foreseen side effects
Neutral actions
Any action with dual outcomes
Mill defended liberty because:
It maximizes economic growth
Society progresses through free thought
Liberty is a natural inclination
Authority must be limited
Treating persons as ends requires respecting rational nature.
True
False
A primary criticism of virtue ethics is that it is:
Too rule-based
Not action-guiding
Too utilitarian
Too strict
Natural law holds morality is known through:
Emotion
Reason
Law
Popularity
Rawls’ theory applies only to ideal societies.
True
False
According to Kant, moral autonomy means:
Following personal desires
Legislating moral law for oneself
Being independent of society
Acting for happiness
Virtue ethics says vice includes:
Only excess
Only deficiency
Both excess and deficiency
Neither
For natural law, morality comes from God’s arbitrary commands.
True
False
In utilitarianism, motives matter:
Always
Only when consequences are unclear
Less than outcomes
More than outcomes
Rawls prefers the veil of ignorance because it:
Promotes self-interest
Reduces bias
Maximizes utility
Enforces religious values
Kant believes good will is good because of what it accomplishes.
True
False
Mill held that liberty can be restricted if:
Someone is offended
Someone is harmed
Society disagrees
Religion forbids
Virtue ethics says moral education requires:
Rules
Exemplars
Consequence calculations
Legal codes
The Difference Principle requires equal outcomes.
True
False
Natural law says immoral acts violate:
Social expectations
Human inclinations rooted in nature
Majority opinion
Feelings
Kant’s universal law test checks for:
Contradiction
Utility
Natural purpose
Religious approval
Virtue ethics is self-centered because it focuses on the agent’s character.
True
False
Utilitarianism demands impartiality because:
Everyone’s pleasure counts equally
Laws mandate it
Religion requires it
Justice demands it
Natural law assumes belief in God is necessary.
True
False
Rawls opposes utilitarianism because it:
Ignores individuals
Ignores utility
Respects the least advantaged too much
Rejects liberty
Kant thinks moral laws come from:
Divine command
Pure practical reason
Social custom
Intuition
Aristotle believed anyone can become virtuous by habit.
True
False
Virtue ethics says flourishing includes:
Maximizing utility
Living according to reason
Obeying laws
Having wealth
Rawls says everyone must have identical wealth.
True
False
Bentham is associated with:
Deontology
Classical utilitarianism
Virtue ethics
Social contract theory
