Business Ethics True/False Exam 1
A good will, according to Kant, is one that wants all people to flourish as human beings.
FALSE
According the psychologists in the NPR article, Toby Groves should be held morally blameless for his legal crimes.
FALSE
According to Kahneman, people should always avoid making decisions with their System 1 mental capacities.
FALSE
According to Kant, a good will tries to do things that are good because they help people in need.
FALSE
According to Mill, all pleasures are of the same kind - e.g., there is no qualitative difference between the pleasure of watching 'The Simpsons' (say) & the pleasure of spending time with a beloved friend.
FALSE
According to the Aristotelian approach to ethics, every social institution has exactly the same moral purpose - to promote all aspects of each person's human flourishing.
FALSE
According to the Aristotelian approach to ethics, there is no such thing as human nature.
FALSE
According to the NPR article, Toby Groves should be held morally blameless for his legal crimes.
FALSE
According to the moral psychology readings (NPR, Fisman & Galinsky, Bazerman & Tenbrunsel, Kahneman), self-interest is the only thing that ever motivates anyone.
FALSE
According to virtue ethics, there is no such thing as human nature.
FALSE
All three approaches to justice that Sandel discussed in Chapter 1 ultimately lead to the same conclusions about what is right and what is wrong.
FALSE
In Plato's chariot metaphor, the 'dark horse' represents a person's spirit (e.g., love, honor)
FALSE
Kant thinks there is only one version of the Categorical Imperative.
FALSE
Mill agrees with Bentham that natural rights are "nonsense on stilts."
FALSE
The Categorical Imperative tells us that we should always treat people as means, never as ends only.
FALSE
Virtue ethics in concerned with identifying good actions, not good people.
FALSE
According the Bentham, rights are "nonsense on stilts."
TRUE
According to Gentile, sometimes genuine moral conflicts pit truth against loyalty.
TRUE
According to Kant, a good will can't be attracted to anything in particular; it just wants to obey the moral law.
TRUE
According to Kant, a good will tries to do things that are good because they are good.
TRUE
According to Sandel, one prominent approach to justice in our culture focuses not on what gets decided in moral situations but rather on who decides it.
TRUE
According to Sandel, the freedom issues raised in discussions about morality are largely rooted in deontological ethical theory.
TRUE
According to some critics of virtue ethics, there is no such thing as human nature.
TRUE
According to the Aristotelian approach to ethics, social institutions have moral purposes.
TRUE
According to the Aristotelian approach to ethics, we need to know about human nature in order to figure out human flourishing.
TRUE
One (set of) approach(es) to ethical rules holds that they are side-constraints - they mark of the field of permitted behavior.
TRUE
One form of Kant's Categorical Imperitive says to act only on that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that is should become universal law.
TRUE
Plato's chariot figure suggests that certain motivations (interests, attitudes) are more susceptible to rational control than others.
TRUE
The freedom approach to questions of justice is more concerned with who makes certain decisions than what they decide.
TRUE
The integrity goal of this course is a response to the fact that people often fail to act in accord with their own personal judgements about morality.
TRUE