FINAL EXAM ****NOTE: THIS WAS A CLASS TAKEN ON CAMPUS - MAY NOT BE USED FOR ALL ETHICS COURSES***
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Please type the answer that you choose in each question below where it says: (Your answer:) immediately below each question. Make sure that you read the question and the possible answers carefully before making you choice. Questions #1 thru #20 are worth four (4) points each. Question #21 is worth twenty (20) points. You must “save” this Final Exam to your Desktop and then submit the Exam to your Individual Assignment Link when you are finished. Good luck!
1. According to Basic Ethics, those whom believe in a religious connection to ethics and morality “there is an independent source of goodness that exists in some other (supernatural) realm”
A. True B. False Your answer: A. True 2. Ethical contractarianism is the assumption that within a context of competing personal interests in a free and fair interchange of values, those principles that are intersubjectively agreed upon are sufficient for creating a moral “ought.”
A. True B. False
Your answer: A. True
3. The veil of ignorance occurs when the only thing left is human nature, as such.
A. True B. False
Your answer: A. True
4. Which of the following is associated with Immanuel Kant’s theory that, “only acts done from a motive of duty have moral value.”?
a. Utilitarianism b. Deontology c. Virtue Theory d. None of the above.
Your answer: b. Deontology
5. Which of the following would be a definition of Utilitarianism?
a. Actions are determined by their utility; in other words for the greater good. b. Only acts done from a motive of duty have moral value. c. Is referred to as character-based ethic. d. All of the above.
Your answer: a. Actions are determined by their