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Ethics in America
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1. The medical code of ethics is closest to which of the following philosopher's theories?
2. Representative governments rely on the free and unrestricted flow of information. Which of the following social activities relies on the free and unrestricted flow of information in order to properly operate?
3. Mental health professionals - clergy - journalists - physicians - and lawyers all have confidential relationships with various people they work with or for. This shows our society's acknowledgment of the importance of which of the following?
4. The allocation of public funds in the annual federal budget is a clear statement of the executive and legislative branch's collective view on which of the following?
5. Public funding of elections has been proposed in order to eliminate which of the following problems that lawmakers and executive branch officials currently face?
6. One major ethical difference between the God of the Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament is that the Old Testament God
7. The dictum 'do no harm' is a
8. The Stoics believed that happiness consisted of which of the following? I. Health II. Wealth III. Tranquility
9. Which of the following pairings of philosopher and ethical theory or notion is accurate?
10. Virtually all telecommunications companies charge different monthly subscription rates for different connection speeds to the Internet. Now - however - several telecommunications companies would like to charge different rates for individual acts of access to different kinds of content - applications (i.e. - programs) - and services on the Internet. This is a question of
11. According to Rawls - reflective equilibrium is
12. A drug company provides data that shows that a drug it long invested in turns out to have unacceptable side effects. The company also determines that this decision does not affect its long-term revenue. Which of the following ethical tenets has the company honored? I. Trustworthiness II. Right to information III. Accountability
13. Christian ethics tend to emphasize which of the following? I. Mercy II. Grace III. Forgiveness
14. 'Taking another person's life is unethical.' This statement is an example of which of the following?
15. Kant would object to Mill's ethics in which of the following ways? I. It takes the consequences of actions into account in moral judgments. II. It falsely assumes that humans are rational enough to make moral judgments. III. It requires the foundational authority of a deity.
16. A soldier - George - asks his unit's clergyman to pray that George will kill many of the enemy. The clergyman refuses. On which of the following grounds did the clergyman most likely refuse? I. Professional code of ethics II. Right to information III. Confidentiality
17. The felicific calculus assumes that I. all pleasures are of equal value II. there is enough time to use the calculus in real-life situations III. consequences of actions cannot be taken into account in ethics
18. The word arête most closely translates as which of the following?
19. According to the 'harm principle - '
20. A systematic conception of natural law originated with which of the following ethical philosophers?
21. According to the Old Testament - the Israelites were to God as a child is to a
22. According to the Old Testament - the Israelites were bound to God by which of the following?
23. Kant's notion that one should act as though one were recommending one's act as an unbreakable - eternal - and universal law to fully rational free agents is called the
24. Natural law is incompatible with which of the following claims? I. A deity II. The denial of a shared basic human nature III. The lack of natural rights
25. A group of citizens pledges to abstain from littering and hold without fail to this pledge. This is an example of