Multiple choice

1. (TCOs 5, 6) The single criterion for making decisions in utilitarian ethics is what? (Points : 5)

The experience of pleasure

Accounting for unintended consequences

Fiduciary interests to be honored

The amount of happiness produced

The principle to be honored

2. (TCO 2) The Social Contract theorist whose troubled childhood was most clearly reflected in his theories was who? (Points : 5)

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Jefferson

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thomas Hobbes

John Locke

3. (TCOs 1, 2, 4, 6) "Act only according to that maxim..." begins what famous formulation of deontological ethics? (Points : 5)

The Nicomachean Ethics

The Social Contract

The Principle of Utility

The Hypocratic Oath

The Categorical Imperative

4. (TCOs 4, 6) Personal development and discovery through the repetition of good acts and study of virtue characterizes what ethicist? (Points : 5)

Plato

Aristotle

Luther

Augustine

Socrates