Business Ethics OU Exam 1

In Plato's chariot metaphor, the 'dark horse' represents a person's spirit (love, honor, etc)

False

Plato's chariot figure suggests that certain motivations (urges, desires) are more susceptible to rational control than others

True

According to the NPR article, Toby Groves should be held morally blameless for his legal crimes

False

According to Gentile, sometimes genuine moral conflicts pit truth against loyalty

True

According to virtue ethics, there is no such thing as human nature

False

The freedom approach to questions of justice is more concerned with who makes certain decisions than what they decide

True

One set of approaches to ethical rules holds that they are side-constraints - they mark off the field of permitted behavior

True

According to Mill, all pleasures are of the same kind - there is no qualitative difference

False

The point of Noziek's pleasure machine is to show that people are motivated solely to acquire pleasure and avoid pain

False

According to Kant, a good will tries to do things that are good because they are good

True

The categorical imperative tells us that we should always treat people as means, never as ends only

False

Kant thinks there is only one version of the categorical imperative

False

In Platos "figure.. of a pair of winged horses and a charioteer," the reader is supposed to identify her soul with

the whole chariot assembly

Plato's chariot figure suggest that

things are better when reason guides the soul

The following is a lesson some psychologist and economist drew from the Toby Groves case: people sometimes neglect moral concerns because they develop "tunnel vision" on

helping friends, being loyal and advancing their own business interests

According to Gentile, I am more likely to voice my moral values when

I can do so effectively, I want to act on my values, and I have practiced how to respond to frequently encountered conflicts

According to Sandel, what is not one of the ways people socially think about justice: in terms of

universalizing maxims

What is not a reason advanced for rejecting a morality based on human nature?

We're learning new details about human nature all the time

Sandel describes his 3 distinct approaches to justice as

none of the above

WRONG ANSWERS AREE

-3 paths to same place

-3 equally good paths even though they have different results

-3 common paths, but he clearly thinks one is superior

Descriptive hedonism is the view that

pleasure and pain are what actually control human motivation

Mills defense of liberty holds that

respecting liberty maximizes utility in the long run, and everyone should be left alone as long as they aren't harming others

According to Kant

only the good will is unconditionally good

According to Kant, rationality requires that we act

to best achieve our goals, and consistently (when situations are the same, appropriate action is the same)

According to kant,

we have some moral duties to others, and some moral duties to ourselves