Chpt 1 : Not thinking too deeply or too systematically about ethical concerns

a) Isolates you from other people

b) Undermines your personal freedom

c) Ensures that no moral dilemmas arise

d) Helps guide you to moral truth - B) Undermines your personal freedom

Chpt 1 : Which of the following is the overall point of the author's discussion of "doing ethics"?

a) Doing ethics is difficult, but not doing it is foolish

b) Doing ethics requires many years of careful study

c) Most people should rely on wiser authorities to do ethics for them

d) Doing ethics is unavoidable for everyone - a) Doing ethics is difficult, but not doing it is foolish

Chpt 1 : Which field or topic would include tasks such as accurately describing the moral codes and

ethical standards of colonial America?

a) normative ethics

b) applied ethics

c) descriptive ethics

d) instrumental ethics - c) Descriptive ethics

Chpt 1 : 4. What is a major difference between descriptive ethics and normative ethics?

a. Normative ethics concerns moral beliefs, whereas descriptive ethics concerns moral behaviors.

b. Normative ethics implies that some people's moral beliefs are incorrect, whereas descriptive ethics

does not. c. Descriptive ethics cannot be done properly before doing normative ethics.

d. Descriptive ethics is not a scientific topic of study, whereas normative ethics is. - B. Normative

ethics implies that some people's moral beliefs are incorrect, whereas descriptive ethics does not.

Chpt 1: Morality refers to beliefs about

a. Praise and punishment

b. Right and wrong, good and bad

c. Legal and Moral standards

d. Typical behavior in one's society - b. Right and wrong, good or bad

Chpt 1: Believing that you can establish all your moral beliefs by consulting your feelings is an

example of

a. subjectivism.

b. objectivism

c. The meaning and logical structure of moral beliefs

d. Critical scrutiny - a. subjectivism