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Introduction to
ethics
ETHICS AND
MORALS:
INTRODUCTORY
REMARKS
DIFFERENT
APPROACHES
TO ETHICS
HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVES:
AGENT­
CENTRIC
MORAL
THEORY OF
THE EAST
AND THE
WEST
MEDIEVAL
AND
MODERN
MORAL
THEORIES
SOCRATIC
FRAMEWORK
IN MORLA
PHILOSOPHY
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Assignment 1
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Assignment 1
Due date for this assignment: 2017­03­01, 23:59 IST.
From the perspective of ethics, one important role religion played in the ancient
society was?
Communicating the moral concerns of the society to its people
Exclusively shaping the oral outlook of people
Developing legal codes that regulate people’s behavior
All of the above
Which is not the direct concern of ethics?
Rewarding and punishing human actions
Guiding human behaviour
Mitigting conflictc in human relationships
Theoretically analysing what is correct behaviour
Which among the following is true?
Morals are the result of philosophical reflections people made over generations.
We derive our moral assumptions from philosophical theories.
Morals are not the result of philosophical reflections.
Morals have evolved during the process of social and cultural evolution happened in
societies.
Traditionally ethics is a normative science of ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­of human beings living in
societies.
Conduct
Character
Behaviour
Customs
Breaking a law could be?
Both unethical and illegal.
Sometimes could be ethical.
Has nothing to do with ethics.

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None of the above.
What is the subject matter of ethics?
The inappropriateness of human behavior
The moral correctness of human action
The assumptions that influence morals
The standard that regulate human behavior and conduct
Metaethics deals with …………………..
Nature of moral reasoning
Nature of morality
Nature of moral beliefs
Nature of moral frameworks
What is the focal point of analysis for a virtue ethicist?
Intention
Character
Consequences
All of the above
Which of the following is also known as philosophical ethics?
Metaethics
Normative ethics
Applied ethics
Moral psychology
Conduct for Aristotle was?
Morally approved behaviour
Habitual behavior
Behaviour that are prescribed by customs
Behaviour that is desirable
Which among the following is not the concern of normative ethics?
Examines the content of our moral behavior.
Answers the question, how we ought to live by delineating a general theory of the
good.
Examines the norms or standards that tell us what it “ought” to be.
Discusses whether ethics is relative or not.
According to the non­consequentialists, the morality of an action may depend on
…………….
Its intrinsic nature
Its motives
Its being in accord with some rule or principle
None of the above
Virtues in ancient Greece refers to:

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Human achievements
Ultimate human destiny
Human excellence
Human wisdom
Who said, “no man err knowingly”?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Heraclitus
The settled dispositions to act in a certain way is known as?
Wisdom
Courage
Moral conviction
Virtue
In the ancient Greek context, virtue was a …………………….for enlightenment.
Necessary condition
One of the means to happiness
Sufficient condition
Not a means to happiness
Which of the following was considered by Socrates as the summum bonum?
The idea of truth
The idea of good
The idea of beauty
The idea of ethics
Who advocated the view that “evey truth is conventional”?
Socrates
Plato
The Sophists
All of the above
Eudaimonism can be subsumed under ……………………?
Divine command theory
Social contract theory
Evolutionary ethics
Egoism
Socrates was trying to establish?
The inherent connection between morality and truth
The fact that all morality is conventional
Ethical knowledge is not attainable
Ethics has its ultimate foundation in religion

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