Multiple choice

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT a correct statement?

For Machiavelli, virtue, ethics, and morality are instrumental values. 

If all else fails in the pursuit of power, Machiavelli would counsel that one must be prepared to use the “good” acts and “virtuous” means of manipulation, deception, coercion, and even murder. 

Machiavelli draws no distinction between morality in the public arena and the private sphere. 

If absolutely necessary to secure one’s business promotion, Machiavelli would advise sabotaging the career of one’s competitor by making false and anonymous accusations of immorality on the company’s ethics “hot line.” 

Question 2 

Someone who believes that moral duties are based on universal rules, and that the actor must abide by the same rules being applied to others, believes in which moral theory?

Ethical Relativism 

Utilitarianism 

Ethical egoism 

Kantian ethics 

Question 3 

Christina, a salesperson for Delta Computer Corporation, attempts to apply ethical principles in dealing with customers and suppliers. Ethical principles are, according to Socrates:

Absolute and universal 

Constantly changing 

Flexible and supple 

Not applicable to business entities since they exist to make money. 

Question 4 

Which of the following statements is NOT accurate?

Psychological egoism is an ethical and normative theory that prescribes how people should behave in certain situations. 

An ethical egoist thinks primarily of what will benefit his or her self-interest in the long-run. 

Public good and the general welfare are based on people fulfilling their selfish interests, according to one defense of the doctrine of ethical egoism. 

“Justice is the will of the stronger” would be a characteristic Sophist statement.