UNIT ONE – ETHICAL THEORY, PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS, OUR REASONING FLAWS, AND TYPES OF ETHICAL DILEMMAS True/False Questions F
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A credo consists of how you define yourself by job title and income.
T
2.
Part of a credo includes a list of lines you would never cross to be successful.
T
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An ethical breach is not necessarily a violation of the law.
T
4.
Unwritten rules of conduct are part of our normative standards.
F
5.
Self-interest is the same as selfishness.
F
6.
Ethical egoism is selfishness.
F
7.
Kant would label paying lower wages in developing countries than the wages paid in developed economies as unethical.
F
8.
Kant is part of the utilitarian school of thought on ethics.
T
9.
Kant and Rand do not agree on the importance of self-interest in ethical theory.
T
10.
Locke and Rawls develop their ethical theory on the basis of a tabula rasa.
T
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Locke and Rawls are contractarians.
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The Rights Theory is generally associated with Plato and Aristotle.
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13.
Robert Nozick is the leading thinker for utilitarianism.
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14.
Third-trimester abortions would be supported under a Rights Theory.
T
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Robert Solomon is a proponent of virtue ethics.
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