Multiple Questions Answers

Question 1
An Act Utilitarian most likely would:
Focus on broad and general categories of actions in doing the Utilitarian analysis.
Focus on narrow, concrete, and factual actions in doing the Utilitarian analysis.
Focus on legislative acts.
Focus on an act to see if it passes the Categorical Imperative test.
Question 2
Fran believes all people in a society have an implicit agreement with one another to obey moral rules. Which of the following ethical theories most accurately describes Fran’s beliefs?
Utilitarianism
Machiavellian ethics
Rousseau’s ethics
Ethical Relativism
Question 3
Which statement is FALSE about the ancient Greek philosophers?
a.Plato's conception of a Just State is an organizational ideal that evidences a distrust of democracy.
b.Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean advises one to be virtuous by selecting the virtuous "mean" between two vice extremes of deficiency and excess.
c.Aristotle's Ethics of Virtue puts primary emphasis on developing and cultivating good moral traits of character.
d.The Sophists believed that justice, ethics, and morality were universal, objective, permanent, and unchanging norms and standards.
Question 4
Pursuant to traditional philosophical analysis which of the following statements is/are true?
a.Morals and morality are different from ethics.
b.Intrinsic values are different from instrumental values.
c.Cultural relativism is different from ethical relativism.
d.All of the above.
Question 5
Which of the following is FALSE about Socrates?
a.He believed that there was universal, objective, and permanent truth to ethics and morality.
b.He believed along with the Sophists that virtue comes from having money and the best reputation that money can buy.
c.His Socratic Method contained an important element of inductive reasoning and argumentation.
d.He equated virtue with knowledge.
Question 6
1.Sarah believes that people should take actions that benefit society as a whole the most. Which of the following ethical theories most accurately describes Sarah’s beliefs?
Kantian ethics
Utilitarianism
Natural Rights
Ethical Fundamentalism
Question 7
1.Which of the following is not accurate?
One benefit to being a sincere ethical emotist is that one is morally infallible.
One convenience to being an ethical emotist is that one can change one’s mind about a moral issue simply by expressing a different feeling about an action.
Morality is a societal-based phenomena according to the doctrine of ethical relativism.
Cultural relativism is a prescriptive ethical theory that sets forth moral norms.
Question 8
All of the following are ethical theories EXCEPT:
a. Utilitarianism
b. Kant's Categorical Imperative
c. SEC Rule 10b(5)
d. Ethical Egoism 
Questin 9
1.Which of the following is a correct statement?
The third test of Kant’s Categorical Imperative – the Agent-Receiver test – allows people to exempt themselves from moral rules if there are extenuating business circumstances.
One is acting morally, according to Kant, when one seeks to maximize the happiness of oneself.
One problem with Kantian ethics is that two secondary moral rules can pass the supreme test of the Categorical Imperative, yet the rules can conflict.
An ethical system that emphasizes the consequences of a decision is known as a deontological or duty-based one.
Question 10
The British economist and philosopher Adam Smith would best say that:
Ethical egoism is bad since it encourages selfish behavior.
Satisfying one’s desires leads to sensuality and lust and therefore is evil.
The government will serve as the “invisible hand” to take care of people.
Satisfying one’s desires and achieving one’s goals are very laudable principles of action and morality