Chapter 1 Self Quiz

The set of universal norms shared by all persons committed to morality is called

The term "_____________" refers to norms about right and wrong human conduct that are so widely shared that they form a stable social compact.

The following statement is an example of which type of ethics: "Over the last half-century, more relative weight has increasingly been given to the moral norm of respect for patient autonomy."

A conflict between moral requirements and nonmoral factors, such as self-interest, can be described as a:

Which of the following is not a moral principle named by Beauchamp and Childress?

The moral principle concerned with the fair distribution of benefits, risks, and costs is called:

According to Beauchamp and Childress, the once-honorific sense of profession is now better reflected in the term:

When moral norms conflict, according to Beauchamp and Childress, which of the following norms should take priority?

Agents who are unable to fulfill all prima facie moral norms in a given situation may experience _________________, indicating the existence of a continued obligation.

When moral disagreements arise, a moral agent can—and usually should:

The Hippocratic tradition has been sufficient to meet the ethical challenges of biological and health sciences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Moral ideals, such as charitable beneficence, are morally praiseworthy but not required of all persons in all cases.

All laws constitute public policies, but not all public policies are laws.

In a practical dilemma, moral reasons should always outweigh nonmoral (or personal) reasons.

According to Beauchamp and Childress, balancing moral norms is essentially the same thing as specification of moral norms.

Balancing is a matter of spontaneous, unreflective intuition without reasons.

Morally conscientious persons can justifiably disagree over moral priorities in circumstances of a contingent conflict of norms.

____________ is a generic term covering several different ways of understanding and examining the moral life.

_____________ ethics, in contrast to theoretical ethics, employs general concepts and norms to address particular problems.

The term "________ __________" refers to a set of normative, enforceable guidelines accepted by an official public body, such as an agency of government or a legislature, to govern a particular area of conduct.

A ___________ ____________ is a circumstance in which moral obligations demand or appear to demand that a person adopt each of two (or more) alternative but incompatible actions, such that the person cannot perform all the required actions.

The principle of __________ is the moral norm of avoiding the causation of harm.

In genuine moral dilemmas, __________ _________ occurs because a prima facie obligation does not simply disappear when overridden.

The ethical approach outlined in this chapter is now commonly called ____________.

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