ETHC445 Week 6 Quiz Latest 2017 March

Question 1. Question :

Ethics of the deontological school would drive the commanding officer (CO) to make what decision?

To seek the best welfare for his sailor

To take risks of courage

To calculate the best possible outcome

To ask what virtues he seeks to honor

To do his duty under rules and procedures

Question 2. Question :

Which of the three primary schools of ethics is operating when the commanding officer (CO) decides for medical evacuation of the injured sailor in order to aid the most possible?

Care based

Ends based

Virtue based

Self-interest

Conscience driven

Question 3. Question :

If the CO's conscience was bothering him while making a decision, reading up on what ethicist would have made him aware of his thinking and deciding?

Ayn Rand

St. Anselm

St. Thomas Aquinas

John Locke

John Stuart Mill

Question 4. Question :

What virtue is not shown if the CO shows unwillingness to contact the carrier air group commander about the welfare of his sailor because of fear?

Procrastination

Selfishness

The virtue of courage

Wisdom

Moderation

Question 5. Question :

The maxim "I uphold only the ethical view that all rational beings ought uphold" follows _____.

Utilitarian ethics

An Aristotelian moderation of virtue

A strong application of care-based ethics

Kant's categorical imperative in the first formulation

Care-based ethics

Question 6. Question :

The CO's practice of moderation in not taking excessive risks connects him with what concept of ethics?

Aquinas' concept of conscience

James' pragmatism

Aquinas' concept of natural ethics

Mill's utilitarianism

Aristotle's doctrine of the mean

Question 7. Question :

To ask, "What is the best possible outcome for my whole ship" is to apply what kind of ethics?

Social contract

Utilitarianism

Deontological ethics

Being caught in a dilemma

Ethics of the mean

Question 8. Question :

To think, "What can this do for my reputation when I come up for selection as admiral," is an example of what kind of ethics?

Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative.

John Locke's social contract.

Ayn Rand's objectivism.

Augustine's doctrine of sin.

A social contract with the crew.

Question 9. Question :

For the CO to consider what the crew as a whole would want for handling the situation involves what kind of ethics?

Sphere of influence

Utilitarian ethics

Majority thinking

The principle of equity

Care-based ethics

Question 10. Question :

A decision to ask the injured seaman what he wants to happen is what kind of ethics?

Care-based ethics

The prudent mariner approach

Utilitarian ethics

The ethics of self-interest

The CO's duty