Business Ethics
"Etiquette" designates a special realm of morality
False
According to John Rawls, property rights exist prior to any social structure
False
All moral rights are legal rights
False
An argument is only valid if all of its premises are true
False
An individual does not have to follow the code of ones profession.
False
By "categorical imperative" Bentham meant the subjective principle of an action, the principle that people in effect formulate in determine conduct
False
Egotists only do what they feel like doing
False
Enron executives acted wrongly simply because they broke the law.
False
Ethical egoism says that human beings are only motivated to act according to their self-interest
False
For utilitarians, justice is an independent moral standard district from their general principle of utility
False
Hedonism is a ethical theory that tells us what we ought to do
False
If you do the right thing only because you think it will pay off, then you are truly motivated by moral concerns
False
If your conduct is legal, it will also be moral
False
Immanuel Kant beloved that it is only when we act out of feeling or sentiment that our actions have moral worth
False
In business and elsewhere, your only moral obligation is to act within the law.
False
It is clear that women in the United States have no problem living the American Dream
False
John Rawl's second principle of justice states that insofar as inequalities are permitted they must give priority to the middle class as well as the wealthiest persons
False
John Stuart Mill defends a form of act utilitarianism
False
Kant believed that only hypothetical imperatives had moral worth
False
Libertarians accept rent-seeking as a legit and means of gaining an advantage in the market place
False
Rawl's theory of distributive justice is a form of utilitarianism
False
Robert Nozick uses the Wilt Chamberlain story to show the moral necessity of government re-distribution of wealth
False
Rules of etiquettes are the same as moral rules
False
The paradox of hedonism is that people who are exclusively concerned with their own interests tend to have happier and more satisfying lives run those who are concerned about other people.
False
The view that associates morality with self-interest is hedonism
False
Business ethics is the study of what constitutes right and wrong, or good and bad, human conduct in a business context.
True
Bystander apathy appears to result in part from diffusion of responsibility.
True
Distributive justice concerns the morally proper distribution of social benefits and burdens
True
Egalitarians are likely to be sympathetic to the argument that steps should be taken to reduce the great disparities of income that characterize our society
True
Ethical relativism is the theory that what is right is determined by what a culture or society says is right
True
For philosophers, the important question is not how we come to to have particular moral principles we have, but whether we can justify them
True
If you have a right to something, then others have a duty to treat you a certain way
True
Immanuel Kant believed that prostitution was immoral because by selling their sexual services, prostitutes allow themselves to be treated as only a means to an end
True
Justice is frequently held to require that we treat people equally unless there is some good moral reason not to
True
Libertarianism involves a commitment to leaving market-relation buying,selling, and other exchanges-almost totally unrestricted
True
Libertarians would find it immoral and unjust to coerce people to give food or money to the starving
True
Many philosophers believe (as Aristotle did) that we are required, as a formal of justice, to treat similar cases alike except where there is some relevant difference
True
Moral standards may be different than religious rules
True
Nonconsequentialist theories of ethics include Kantianism and Ross's prima facie duties
True
One feature about utilitarianism that makes it appealing is that it provides a clear way of deciding between ethical options
True
Our conscience evolved as we internalized the moral instructions of the parents or other authority figures who raised us as children
True
Rule utilitarian applies the utilitarian standard, not to individual actions, but to moral codes as a whole
True
Sir David (W.D.) Ross said that prima facie duties can conflict and some might override others
True
The phrase "the declining marginal utility of money" means that successive additions to ones income produce on average, less happiness or welfare than did earlier additions
True
The right to speech is generally thought of as a negative right
True
There are four basic kinds of law: statues, regulations, common law, and constitutional law
True
Utilitarians like Jeremy Bentham are consequentialist a
True
When a utilitarian like Jeremy Bentham advocates "the greatest net happiness for the greatest number," we must consider unhappiness or pain as well as in our own utilitarian calculation
True
When people in a group come in with beliefs, there beliefs tend to get more radical as the group progresses.
True
A prima facie obligation is an obligation that can be overridden by a more important obligation
True
A right to an attorney if you cannot afford one is a positive right
True
According to John Rawls, people in the original position do not know what social position or statues they would hold in society
True
According to Robert Nozick, the basic moral rights possessed by all human beings includes the right to profit from their talents and abilities
True
According to libertarianism, Liberty is the prime value, and justice consists in permitting each to live as he or she pleases, free from interference of others
True
According to mill, to say that I have a right to die thing is to say that I have a valid claim on society to protect me in the possession of that thing, either by force of law or through education and opinion
True
According to the "maximin" rule, you should select the alternative under which the worst that could happen to you is better than the worst that could happen to you under any other alternative
True