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Chapter 001 Understanding Ethics

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True / False Questions

• The field of ethics is the study of how people try to live their lives according to a standard

of "right" behavior.True False

• Moral standards are based on religious, cultural, or philosophical beliefs by which

judgments are made about good or bad behavior.True False

• A structured community of people bound together by similar traditions and customs refers

to society.True False

• Standards of ethical behavior are absorbed by osmosis as you observe the examples, both

positive and negative, set by everyone around you—parents, family members, friends, peers, and neighbors.True False

• Individuals acquire their personal moral standards in the same way that they learn the

alphabet.True False

• A set of personal principles formalized into a code of behavior refers to a value system.

True False

• The terms morals and values do not mean the same thing.

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• A person's values have a specific worth to them.

True False

• An intrinsic value, such as happiness and health, is a good thing in itself and is pursued for

its own sake.True False

• An intrinsic value means that the pursuit of a one value is a good way to reach another

value.True False

• There are clearly defined rules of right and wrong, and you should live your life in direct

observance of those rules.True False

• 12. Simple truth is one of the four basic categories of ethics and can be expressed simply

as doing the right thing.True False

• 13. Typically people do share the same interpretation of what "the right thing" is, but they

may not share the same commitment in doing it.True False

• Superman has become a fictional representation of personal integrity.

True False

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• Rules of appropriate individual behavior represent the idea that the moral standards we

develop for ourselves impact our lives on a daily basis in our behavior and the other types of decisions we make.True False

• "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is the golden rule.

True False

• Every religion in the world shares the golden rule.

True False

• Aristotle believed in individual character and integrity, and established a concept of living

your life according to a commitment to the achievement of a clear ideal – what sort of person would I like to become, and how do I go about becoming that person?True False

• Virtue ethics is the concept of living your life according to the achievement of clear and

similar virtues.True False

• Ethics for the greater good is also referred to as utilitarianism.

True False

• The problem with ethics for the greater good is the idea that the ends justify the means.

True False

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