Philosophy & Belief - Ethics; Pre Quiz 3

The communicative style formerly known as "motherese," is currently referred to as:

According to MacKinnon, of the 20,000 human genes, how many are unique to humans and not found in other animals?

Andrew Carnegie believed in capitalism

Companies can free themselves from liability for workplace injuries when employees assume the risk of employment whether the employees were coerced into hazardous work or not

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One reason Furrow gives for thinking that there are no moral absolutes is ________

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Morality, or ethics, is essentially the same as the law

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Affirmative action, comparable worth, and sexual harassment are connected to

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Rule utilitarians

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By moral intuition, Van Camp, Olen, and Barry mean:

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Although ABC Corporation has a comprehensive ethics program, several of its employees have been charged with financial fraud

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In 1987, the Supreme Court affirmed, in the case of Johnson v. Transportation Agency, that

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According to Leeser and O'Donohue, the feminist conception of sexual harassment is incomplete as a woman in a position of power could not sexually harass a man in a lesser position because this does not harm the group of men

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Atheists cannot be moral

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Which of the following best represents Adam Smith’s view of government intervention in advancing public welfare?

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The virtue of courage should enable one to face danger

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Some people believe that tradition is its own warrant

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At its height, the compensation of top executives at large companies was, on average, how much higher than the pay of the average worker?

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Paternalists believe that physicians are justified in deceiving patients if doing so is in those patients' best interests

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A person who believes that critical thinking skills offer the greatest promise for reaching good judgments is likely to agree that ________

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According to Kant the physical world was

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Happiness can be achieved in a brief time for Aristotle, if one pursues intellectual

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Manninen is concerned that so many prochoice advocates:

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A moral system needs to deal consistently with

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Discuss the ways political tactics can create injustice among those employees with no political skills

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Which of the following is ALWAYS a nonrenewable natural resource?

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Obama argues that although the Constitution was stained by slavery, the answer

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Hooks argues that work outside the home is the key to women's liberation

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The following are things that the person behind the veil of ignorance does not know:

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The process of activating, replacing, or changing malfunctioning genes before a baby is born would be an example of

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The Green Valley is estimated to have enough natural gas to support the nation for an entire year

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If you were a legislator faced with deciding whether to modify the requirements of the

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When a company sells a buyer certain goods only on condition that the buyer also purchases other goods from the firm, this is known as:

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Which of the following does Johnson say is the least useful of the just war formulations?

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According to psychological egoism, humans should always act in their own selfinterest

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This overriding virtue in Confucian ethics comes from a character that embodies both "man" and "two."

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Without individual rights, individual people cannot claim things as their moral __________

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Which of the following is one of the twin pillars of Taoist ethics?

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According to Mappes, nonmarital sex and sex without love are immoral

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In legal reasoning, the precedent of earlier decisions is weighed heavily. The technical term for this is

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The paradox of toleration questions whether which of the following should be tolerated?

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According to Kant, duty rests on two foundations--reason and inclination

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Which of the following is not true about the moral responsibilities of management?

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Global governance gaps are" ¦

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According to Nietzsche, the history of philosophy is the story of how people learned to appropriate the most useful concepts

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According to Nietzsche, which is a better morality to embrace: slave morality or master morality?

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From the anthropocentric perspective the idea that we should curtail human activities to preserve a nonhuman species is generally anchored in which of our ethical theories?

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