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This file of HIS 135 Week 8 Discussion Question 1 includes:
The Internet has had an undisputed effect on the distribution
of information. Do you think the political results of this broad
distribution of information has been positive? Why or why
not? Provide specific examples.
Business - Management
Page One
This exam covers all 14 TCO's.
For each of the following multiple choice questions, please
select the Philosophy (and/or Philosopher) which best goes
with each description below.
1. (TCOs 2, 4, 5, 6) The idea that the assisted suicide of
terminally ill patients should be allowed simply at the
patient's direction reflects what type of ethics? (Points : 5)
Hobbes' State of Nature
Rand's Objectivism
Aristotle's concept of Virtue
Thomas Aquinas' concept of conscience
Socrates' concept of excellence
2. (TCOs 1, 2, 7) What is the moral ideal of
temperance? (Points : 5)
Exercising control over one's own desires and inclinations
Keeping one's temper under control

2. Minimizing the impact of one's decisions
Seeking the good of others before one's own
Overcoming one's passions
3. (TCOs 1, 2) One of the common errors in Ethics is that of
the hasty conclusions. Hasty conclusions consist of
what? (Points : 5)
Rushed work under pressure
Comparing unknown cases to known ones to find
precedents
Embracing conclusions before examining cases fully
Judging cases by the source of their origin
Belief that first impressions are valid until challenged
4. (TCO 2) Prescriptive language is commonly used in ethics
for what reason? (Points : 5)
To indicate what is prohibited or impossible
To indicate that one choice is better than others
To show what actions are legal
To convey requirements and obligations
To indicate that there are really no choices available
5. (TCOs 7, 8) Ethical Egoism proposes that all decisions
should be made to promote what? (Points : 5)
Our fiduciary responsibilities
The good will of others
Our self-interests
The welfare of the community
Stronger relationships
6. (TCOs 2, 4, 9) Free people are motivated toward forming

3. social structures according to a social contract in order to
overcome what problem identified by Thomas
Hobbes? (Points : 5)
The need to overcome disagreements
A perpetual state of warfare
The establishment of a monarchy
Taxation to support the costs of government
Organized ways to select leaders
7. (TCOs 3, 6) Agricultural biofuels are not properly a
renewable source of energy in the environmental ethics
debate. Which of the following also is not a renewable source
of energy? (Points : 5)
Windmill turbines
Hydroelectric power
Tidal flow generators
Biomass waste systems
Solar cells
8. (TCOs 3, 6, 7) The notion that the only thing good without
qualification is a good will is attributed to whom? (Points : 5)
St. Thomas Aquinas
Socrates
John Locke
Immanuel Kant
Oliver Cromwell
9. (TCOs 8, 9) Which ethical concept is organized and
directed toward following the greatest happiness
principle? (Points : 5)
Natural ethics and law

4. Justice and mercy
Rights and responsibilities
Virtue-ethics of excellence
Principle of utility
10. (TCOs 3, 6, 7) Syllogisms in formal deductive logic are
called "valid" when: (Points : 5)
the correct form of the syllogism style is used.
the premise statements are true.
the syllogism is first determined to be "sound."
the verbs are written in present tense.
the conclusion proceeds from the premises.
11. (TCOs 1, 2) When choosing one course of action while
working with a dilemma, the other courses of action are lost
and become unavailable. This makes ethical choices in
dilemma situations particularly what? (Points : 5)
Incoherent
Complicated
Illogical
Painful
Cruel
12. (TCOs 1, 2, 7) What is the role of conscience as Thomas
Aquinas sees it? (Points : 5)
To teach ethical principles
To disclose and build religious faith
To enable rational thought about consequences
To align personal ethics with those of others
To guide actions through a view of right and wrong

5. 13. (TCOs 2, 8) The rule or principle to be applied in making
decisions is an example of which kind of ethical discovery
process? (Points : 5)
Principle of utility
A posteriori rationality
A priori rationality
Empirical rationality
Scientific method
14. (TCOs 1, 2, 5) The Social Contract theorist whose
troubled childhood was most clearly reflected in his theories
was who? (Points : 5)
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Jefferson
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
15. (TCOs 3, 6, 7) Kant's concern that people choose to
observe universal laws as their duty is expressed through
what actions? (Points : 5)
Their habits
Their maxims
Their desires
Their loves
Their loyalties
16. (TCOs 2, 7, 8) Aristotle's Ethics of Virtue have found
modern application for business and industry through what
practice? (Points : 5)
Resolution models applications

6. Goals and objectives
Core values of organizations
Business models
Professional codes of discipline
17. (TCOs 2, 8) Professional codes of conduct serve what
function for business and industry? (Points : 5)
Allow businesses to avoid training professional staffers
Enable transfer of valued employees across state lines
Enable contracting of temporary employees
Specify continuing education needs and requirements
Providing assurance of the professional qualifications of
members
18. (TCOs 2, 7) Aristotle's Ethical Doctrine of the Mean
measured personal virtues on a scale that included the virtue
itself, the excess of it, and the deficiency of it.
If the virtue is COURAGE and the deficiency is COWARDICE,
what is the excess?
(Points : 5)
Wisdom
Moderation
There is no excess
Recklessness
Love
19. (TCOs 8, 9) In personal or organizational conflict, what
benefits accrue to all parties when a leader or consultant
employees one of the ethical conflict resolution models of
Week 6? (Points : 5)
Objectives of what winning the conflict means get refined

7. and better understood
Conflict management gets slowed down and settled.
Conflict can be handled in a sequential, step-by-step
manner
Parties can be reconciled without solving the issues
Personal relationships can be separated from issues
20. (TCOs 1, 2) The Latin term a priori describes the origin
of knowledge developed rationally, and the term a posteriori
describes knowledge developed through observation and
experience. What is an example of ethics is best described as
discovered in an a postiori manner? (Points : 5)
Social ethics
Care-based ethi...
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