• How Did Aristotle View Morality?

Course
Business Ethics
Test
Quiz 1
Started
1/18/14 6:07 PM
Submitted
1/18/14 7:03 PM
Status
Completed
Attempt Score
60 out of 75 points
Time Elapsed
56 minutes out of 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Instructions
This quiz consist of 15 multiple choice questions and covers the material in Chapter 1. Be sure you are in Chapter 1 when you take the quiz.
Question 1
5 out of 5 points

Which of the following characteristics distinguishes moral standards from other sorts of standards?
Answer

Selected Answer: moral standards take priority over other standards, including self-interest
Correct Answer: moral standards take priority over other standards, including self-interest

Question 2
5 out of 5 points
Accepting a moral principle
Answer

Selected Answer: generally involves a desire to follow that principle for its own sake.
Correct Answer: generally involves a desire to follow that principle for its own sake.

Question 3
5 out of 5 points

Morality and self-interest
Answer

Selected Answer: can sometimes conflict.
Correct Answer: can sometimes conflict.

Question 4
5 out of 5 points

The authors use the murder of Kitty Genovese to illustrate
Answer

Selected Answer: bystander apathy.
Correct Answer: bystander apathy.

Question 5
5 out of 5 points

The famous experiments by social psychologist Solomon Asch show
Answer

Selected Answer: even temporary groups can pressure people to conform.
Correct Answer: even temporary groups can pressure people to conform.

Question 6
5 out of 5 points

Our relationship with the law is best described by which of the following?
Answer

Selected Answer: To a significant extent, law codifies a society's customs, norms, and moral values.
Correct Answer: To a significant extent, law codifies a society's customs, norms, and moral values.

Question 7
5 out of 5 points

If an argument is valid, then
Answer

Selected Answer: its conclusion must be true, if its premises are.
Correct Answer: its conclusion must be true, if its premises are.

Question 8
5 out of 5 points

Which of the following is an accurate statement?
Answer

Selected Answer: Professional codes are the rules that are supposed to govern the conduct of members of a given profession.
Correct Answer: Professional codes are the rules that are supposed to govern the conduct of members of a given profession.

Question 9
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Philosophical discussion of moral issues typically involves
Answer

Selected Answer: circular reasoning.
Correct Answer: the revision and modification of arguments.

Question 10
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The following is a logical fact.
Answer

Selected Answer: A sound argument may have a false premise.
Correct Answer: All sound arguments are valid arguments.

Question 11
5 out of 5 points

How did Aristotle view morality?
Answer

Selected Answer: It's necessary for us to try to be virtuous or excellent human beings.
Correct Answer: It's necessary for us to try to be virtuous or excellent human beings.

Question 12
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A proper perspective of religion and morality is
Answer

Selected Answer: only religion can tell us what is right and wrong
Correct Answer: it's not true that morality must be based on religion

Question 13
5 out of 5 points

The divine command theory implies that
Answer

Selected Answer: stealing is wrong only because God commands us not to steal.
Correct Answer: stealing is wrong only because God commands us not to steal.

Question 14
5 out of 5 points

Ethical relativism supports the theory
that
Answer

Selected Answer: what is morally right is what society says is morally right.
Correct Answer: what is morally right is what society says is morally right.

Question 15
5 out of 5 points

When religion and morality are considered,
Answer

Selected Answer: the moral instructions of the world's great religions are often general and imprecise.
Correct Answer: the moral instructions of the world's great religions are often general and imprecise.