Deck : Part III Introduction: Applied Ethics

Question 1

Which of the following can most readily be considered pluralistic accounts?

A) Kantian ethics
B) Ross's ethics
C) Care ethics
D) Utilitarian accounts

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Applied ethics

A) is a unique ethical theory.
B) attempts to solve problems like the roles of intentions or consequences in morality.
C) attempts to solve complex practical moral problems in specific areas like business or medicine.
D) is the grand unified ethical theory.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is incorrect?

A) The natural sciences have long taken a pluralistic approach.
B) Ethical theories have long taken a pluralistic approach.
C) Ethics has typically tried to explain all of morality by a single comprehensive account.
D) If the natural sciences seriously work to combine their theories into one more grand and unified theory, that will be its endpoint, not its starting point.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Ethical pluralism views morality as

A) accurately explained by Kantian ethics.
B) ultimately contained in one complete ethical theory that we have yet to discover.
C) having several distinct facets.
D) something each individual understands for themselves.

Question 5

Which would make the best theoretical sense for resolving a Kantian dilemma?

A) Do whatever would produce the greatest overall utility.
B) Do whatever rule utilitarianism would require.
C) Employ virtue theory or care ethics or determine what is right.
D) None of the above

Question 6

Pluralistic accounts view morality as needing distinct theories of morality's descriptive claims, value claims, and normative claims.

Question 7

If we attempt to combine different ethical theories, one of the conflicts we will encounter is between particularism and universalism.

Question 8

All ethical theories shed light on morals and several of them are complete and non-problematic as ethical theories.

Question 9

It does not seem that any one ethical theory will handle most practical moral problems. For instance, utilitarianism cannot be much help with problems that appeal to moral rights.

Question 10

We have long taken a pluralistic approach to science by dividing it into several distinct branches.