Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Virtue ethics is commonly opposed to ethics of character.
2. In a global overview of cultural narratives with moral dimensions, the majority of myths tend to favor virtue ethics over rigid rules of conduct.
3. In the African "Akan" cultural value system, ethics is perceived as something commanded by God.
4. From the time of the Renaissance to well into the twentieth century, questions of ethics were less a matter of doing the right thing to please God and more a matter of doing the right thing because it led to general happiness.
5. In the context of yielding better results, ethics of conduct is considered to be more fundamental than virtue ethics.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False

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