Fundamentals Of Ethics Set 13

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Q1 | __________ is the author of Prolegomena to Ethics.
  • Bentham
  • Aristotle
  • T. H. Green
  • J. S. Mill
Answer: T. H. Green
Q2 | A _________ action ‘tends to bring about what is good’.
  • bad
  • right
  • wrong
  • legal
Answer: right
Q3 | ________ argued that if conscience had strength and authority, “it would absolutely govern theworld”.
  • T. H. Green
  • J. S. Mill
  • Butler
  • Immanuel Kant
Answer: Butler
Q4 | Avoiding injury either to oneself or to another’s physical well-being implies the Respect for _______.
  • Life
  • Character
  • Freedom
  • Property
Answer: Life
Q5 | Respect for life corresponds to the right to __________.
  • Property
  • Freedom
  • Education
  • Life
Answer: Life
Q6 | Mackenzie defines ________ as ‘The science of the ideal in human conduct’.
  • Character
  • Ethics
  • Hedonism
  • Utilitarianism
Answer: Ethics
Q7 | Butler’s term for intuitive moral faculty is _______.
  • appetite
  • desire
  • purpose
  • conscience
Answer: conscience
Q8 | The right of the child to education corresponds to the parents’ __________ to ensure it.
  • interest
  • duty
  • right
  • capacity
Answer: duty
Q9 | Education is a practical means that corresponds to the _________ theory of punishment.
  • Deterrent
  • Retributive
  • Reformative
  • None of these
Answer: Reformative
Q10 | The right to freedom is essential to _________.
  • Hedonism
  • Democrac
  • Dictatorship
  • All these
Answer: Democrac
Q11 | Deterrent theory of punishment is ___________.
  • preventive
  • reformative
  • educative
  • none of these
Answer: preventive
Q12 | Retributive theory of punishment involves ___________.
  • education
  • reformation
  • revenge
  • conversion
Answer: revenge
Q13 | Capital punishment cannot be justified according to ___________ theory of punishment.
  • Retributive
  • Reformative
  • both (a) and (b)
  • neither (a) nor (b)
Answer: Reformative
Q14 | The right to ________ is recently included in the fundamental rights in India.
  • life
  • freedom
  • education
  • property
Answer: education
Q15 | _________ is not a proponent of hedonism.
  • Kant
  • T. H. Green
  • both (a) and (b)
  • neither (a) nor (b)
Answer: both (a) and (b)
Q16 | Social Darwinism refers to the position of ___________.
  • Kant
  • J. S. Mill
  • Bentham
  • Spencer
Answer: Spencer
Q17 | Those phenomena of conduct in these highest creatures, with which Morality is concerned, alsoconform to the laws of evolution. ___________ said this.
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Charles Darwin
  • Bentham
  • T. H. Green
Answer: Herbert Spencer
Q18 | Find out the matching pairs.1. Bentham/hedonism 2. Reformative view of punishment/the penalty of death 3. T. H. Green/utilitarianism 4. Kant/Critique of Practical reason
  • Only 4
  • 1 and 4
  • 2 and 3
  • Only 1
Answer: 1 and 4
Q19 | According to Sidgwick, ‘nothing is desirable in itself except ___________.
  • pain
  • pleasure
  • both (a) and (b)
  • neither (a) nor (b)
Answer: pleasure
Q20 | Rights and duties are the __________ constituents of the citizen’s life.
  • opposite
  • contradictory
  • invalid
  • complementary
Answer: complementary
Q21 | Right to _________ is the most fundamental right.
  • property
  • freedom
  • education
  • life
Answer: life
Q22 | ___________ theory of punishment is more humanitarian.
  • Retributive
  • Reformative
  • both (a) and (b)
  • neither (a) nor (b)
Answer: Reformative
Q23 | The word ethics is derived from
  • Latin word ‘ethike’.
  • Greek word ‘ethik’
  • Greek word ‘ethike’
  • Latin word ‘ethik’
Answer: Greek word ‘ethike’
Q24 | ‘It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business’ is famous quote by:
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Adam Smith
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Peter Drucker
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Q25 | The term ‘business ethics’ came into common use in year _________
  • 1950
  • 1960
  • 1970
  • 1980
Answer: 1970
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