ETHC 445 Principles of Ethics

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ETHC 445 Week 1 Homework Assignment; Ethical Dilemma
ETHC 445 Week 1 DQ 1 Helen s Wisdom of Friends Dilemma
ETHC 445 Week 1 DQ 2 Study of Ethical Philosophy
ETHC 445 Week 1 Quiz Solutions (MCQs)
ETHC 445 Week 2 Homework Assignment; Absenteeism at the workplace
ETHC 445 Week 2 DQ 1 When Siding with the Majority
ETHC 445 Week 2 DQ 2 The Struggle of Good vs. Evil
ETHC 445 Week 3 Homework Assignment; Ethical Considerations
ETHC 445 Week 3 DQ 1 Applying the Death Penalty
ETHC 445 Week 3 DQ 2 Living in Our State of Nature
ETHC 445 Week 3 Quiz Solutions (MCQs)
ETHC 445 Week 4 Homework Assignment; Environmental Ethical Dilemma-Tesco
ETHC 445 Week 4 DQ 1 Ethics of Controlling Environmental Innovation
ETHC 445 Week 4 DQ 2 Kant - Accomplice to Crazed Murderer
ETHC 445 Week 5 Homework Assignment; You Decide Scenario and Response Solution Paper
ETHC 445 Week 5 DQ 1 Life & Death; Politics & Ethics
ETHC 445 Week 5 DQ 2 Dealing With Emergencies and Outcomes
ETHC 445 Week 6 DQ 1 Applying Rand's Objectivism
ETHC 445 Week 6 DQ 2 Working Conflict Resolution Methods
ETHC 445 Week 6 Quiz Solutions (MCQs)
ETHC 445 Week 7 DQ 1 Business Ethics & the Hovercraft Debacle
ETHC 445 Week 7 DQ 2 Assemble and Test Your Personal Ethics Statement
ETHC 445 Week 8 Final Exam (MCQ,s & Essay Type)

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Question 1. Which of the below behaviors are inappropriate in a course?
Question 2. Ethics involves issues of right and wrong, and emotionally charged issues and ideas; thus,
the best way to ensure that my comments are taken in the way I mean them is to _____.
Question 3. Posting in the course's threaded discussions is an essential element in our online,
asynchronous classroom. Which of the following is not true about value-adding posts in our course?
Question 4. Which of the following is the most appropriate response for a student to post to another
student who has posted this:
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU?
YOU ARE AS STUPID AS A BOX OF ROCKS!

Question 5. Choose from the following choices the way in which collegiality is valued in our course.

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Question 1. Inferring a claim based on data is deductive logic, but what happens when the inference
circumvents logical reasoning?
Question 2. A car salesman says this, in order to get you to buy a new car from him: "Buddy! You gotta
buy this car. Please! If you don't buy it, my boss will fire me!" This type of faulty logic is an example of
_____.
Question 3. Are you for or against the war on terrorism? What fallacy is operating here?
Question 4. All those old people are cheap. They never give me a fair tip when I park their cars in the
valet parking lot. Question 5. If children cannot be executed for their crimes, why should we execute
people with learning disabilities who have the mental capacity of children?

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Question 1. What school of ethics would drive the commanding officer (CO) to follow rules and
procedures?
Question 2. For the CO to think about what is best for all indicates what kind of decision making?
Question 3. 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?
Question 4. For the CO to be excessively afraid of upsetting the carrier air group commander displays
what about his ethics?
Question 5. The maxim "I uphold only the ethical view that all rational beings ought uphold" follows
_____.
Question 6. The CO's practice of moderation in not taking excessive risks connects him with what
concept of ethics?
Question 7. When the CO seeks the utilitarian solution for his dilemma, his reasoning follows what
principle?
Question 8. If the CO fails to take action for the injured sailor's welfare because it might damage his
professional reputation, what kind of ethics is operating in the situation?
Question 9. To speculate about "what would the crew want to happen now" engages the CO in what
ethics?
Question 10. A decision to ask the injured seaman what he wants to happen is what kind of ethics?

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1. (TCOs 2, 4, 5, 6) The idea that the assisted suicide of terminally ill patients should be allowed simply
at the patients direction reflects what type of ethics?

Hobbes State of Nature

Rands Objectivism

Aristotles concept of Virtue

Thomas Aquinas concept of conscience

Socrates concept of excellence

2. (TCOs 1, 2, 7) What is the moral ideal of temperance?

Exercising control over ones own desires and inclinations

Keeping ones temper under control

Minimizing the impact of ones decisions

Seeking the good of others before ones own

Overcoming ones passions

3. (TCOs 1, 2) One of the common errors in Ethics is that of the hasty conclusions. Hasty conclusions
consist of what?

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?

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?

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 social structures according to a social
contract in order to overcome what problem identified by Thomas Hobbes?

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? 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?

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?

Natural ethics and law

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:

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

Incoherent

Complicated

Illogical

Painful

Cruel

12. (TCOs 1, 2, 7) What is the role of conscience as Thomas Aquinas sees it?

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

13. (TCOs 2, 8) The rule or principle to be applied in making decisions is an example of which kind of
ethical discovery process?

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?

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Jefferson

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thomas Hobbes

John Locke

15. (TCOs 3, 6, 7) Kants concern that people choose to observe universal laws as their duty is
expressed through what actions?

Their habits

Their maxims

Their desires

Their loves

Their loyalties

16. (TCOs 2, 7, 8) Aristotles Ethics of Virtue have found modern application for business and industry
through what practice?

Resolution models applications

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?

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) Aristotles 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?

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?

Objectives of what winning the conflict means get refined 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?

Social ethics

Care-based ethics

Consequentialist ethics

Theological ethics

Operational ethics

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1. (TCOs 1, 2, 3, 7) In support of TCO #7 and in the Week 7 discussions, you developed and placed into
the threaded discussions your personalized ethics statement of what has become important to you in the
practice of ethics as you have practiced ethics during the course. Your first task in this question is to
briefly present that personalized statement in just a few sentences before continuing with the
question..
Use your ethical philosophy to solve the following ethical situation. Explain how your philosophy
helped you make your decision.
Should citizens have an ethical obligation to serve their country when it is at war? Under what
circumstances, if any, is it ethical for a person to refuse to serve?
A significant number of people believe war is always wrong, and that no circumstances justify one
nations taking up arms against another. Is this view ethically sound? How about realistically? Please
state which side you agree with, and why. Explain and defend your position using your ethical position

statement.
In answering, be sure to look at both sides of war: that is, a country defending itself against
aggression.
2. (TCOs 1, 2, 7) Analyze the following ethical situation using YOUR ethical philosophy. Read the
situation and then in your answer, explain why this is an ethical situation, what the issues are, and how
an ethical person would resolve them. Explain how YOUR ethical philosophy has helped you
read..
Employees worth to their employers may diminish before they are eligible for retirement. In such cases,
the employer is faced with the dilemma of choosing between retaining an old and trusted yet
unproductive worker for 5 or 10 more years, or firing that worker and jeopardizing his or her retirement
benefits.
1. Should an employer have an ethical obligation to keep such unproductive, but loyal employees? What
if the employee had been a problem his or her entire career? Are there certain circumstances where your
answer to these questions would be different?
2. What is the duty of an unproductive employee to his or her employer? Is there an ethical obligation to
retire when productivity begins to wane? If a person is simply coasting for his or her last few years, is
that person unethical? Be sure to explain your answer.
3. (TCOs 1, 7, 9) How do you feel St. Thomas Aquinas would have solved the above ethical situation
differently or the same as you did using your philosophy? Please explain the reasons for the similarities
or differences.
4. (TCOs 1, 2, 4, 9) A first-term junior senator has placed a bill before the Senate that promises to
correct tax inequities that affect thousands of workers. However, the bill is being held up in committee.
The senior senator who serves as Sub-Committee Chairperson is responsible. The senator, however, has
learned of a secret scandal in the Chairpersons personal life. The junior senator visits the
Chairperson..and becomes law.
Identify and tell what ethical philosophy the senior and junior senators are using, if any.
Now, use your ethical philosophy to analyze the situation. Explain how, using your philosophy, you
would have solved this situation either the same way as the characters in the situation did, or differently.
Why?
5. (TCOs 5, 6) You work for a grocery store and a new manager is hired to oversee your department. He
comes into your department (the butcher shop) and explains to you that for the past 6 months, your
department has been losing money for the store because of the waste and spoilage goingand says,
And by the way, one more month of losses like we had last month from this department, and you can
kiss your job goodbye.
Will you repackage the meat in the way he requested?
Why or why not? Explain what ethical analysis you used to come to this conclusion.
6. (TCOs 6, 8) Analyze your answer above using the Front Page of the Newspaper ethical dilemma
resolution model. Show your steps.

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