ETHC 445 - Week 6 Quiz

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Question 1.Question :

Ethics of the deontological school would drive the commanding officer (CO) to make what decision?

 To seek the best welfare for his sailor

 To take risks of courage

 To calculate the best possible outcome

 To ask what virtues he seeks to honor

 To do his duty under rules and procedures

Question 2.Question :

For the CO to think about what is best for all indicates what kind of decision making?

 Ethical egoism

 Utilitarian ethics

 Care-based ethics

 An Aristotelian excess of the virtue

 The duty of the situation

Question 3.Question :

If the CO's conscience was bothering him while making a decision, reading up on what ethicist would have made him aware of his thinking and deciding?

 Ayn Rand

 St. Anselm

 St. Thomas Aquinas

 John Locke

 John Stuart Mill

Question 4.Question :

What virtue is not shown if the CO shows unwillingness to contact the carrier air group commander about the welfare of his sailor because of fear?  

 Procrastination

 Selfishness

 The virtue of courage

 Wisdom

 Moderation

Question 5.Question :

If the CO follows a principle that relates to the first formulation of the categorical imperative, what is the proper term of Kant's that should be used?

 Precept

 Decision

 Criterion

 Determination

 Maxim

Question 6.Question :

When the CO wants to avoid doing "stupid things," what theory of ethics is he displaying?

 Plato's doctrine of civil responsibility

 Aristotle's doctrine of the mean

 Hobbes' state of nature

 Augustine's notion of sin

 Locke's idea of social contract

Question 7.Question :

The CO's concern to maximize the best outcomes for ship and crew applies which school of ethics?

 Care-based school

 Virtue-based school

 Ends-based school

 Avoidance of extremes position

 Rules-based school

Question 8.Question :

If the CO were to put concern for his personal reputation ahead of the needs of the injured sailor, what style of ethics would be operating?

 Deficiency of courage

 Kant's categorical imperative, second formulation

 Aquinas' concept of natural law ethics

 Ayn Rand's objectivism

 James' logical positivism

Question 9.Question :

For the CO to consider what the crew as a whole would want for handling the situation involves what kind of ethics?

 Sphere of influence

 Utilitarian ethics

 Majority thinking

 The principle of equity

 Care-based ethics

Question 10.Question :

If the CO were to take a care-based approach to this emergency situation, what would he do?

 He would try to sympathize with the sailor and feel his pain.

 He would try to figure out what he would want if he were the sailor and had suffered the injury.

 He would contact the injured sailor's family at home.

 He would follow the published instructions for this kind of emergency

 He would get the carrier air group commander to send the helicopter, even after dark.