Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 29

Introduction to International Development, Practice Quiz: Chapter 29

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. Development in human societies involves ________-laden choices.

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. Development ethics considers ________.

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. According to philosopher Bhikhu Parekh, the problem with referencing thinkers like Locke, Kant, Mill, and Marx in the context of development ethics is that these writers were ________.

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. John Locke held that ________.

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. ________ is NOT a natural law theorist.

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. ________ is one of the prominent scholars of the social contract theory.

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. ________ holds the idea that a fair social contract should be at the level of the whole world.

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. Corporations have often transgressed human rights and continue too often to do so ________.

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. Human rights have served as a forceful, universally understandable language that can do all of the following except ________.

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. Human security discourse is more effective for development ethics because it ________.

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. The voicelessness and powerlessness explicate all of the following except ________.

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. In defining a good conception of development, Amartya Sen recognizes ________.

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. Etzioni highlights the following as the elements of well-being except ________.

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. ________ presented the calculus of meaning.

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. Overall, development ethics ________.

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. Development in human societies involves value-free choices.

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. From the 1950s, a field of thought called "economic ethics" emerged as a strand within, or partner of, international development studies.

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. Las Casas was a forerunner of universal human rights thinking and of the liberation theology movement.

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. Political thoughts of the most recent centuries put forward justifications for European expansion and at the expense of the subjugation and dispossession of non-European.

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. Social contract theory asks: what do or would participants disagree on?

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. Utilitarianism has grown out of the type of rational calculation fostered by business and markets.

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. Businesses must show due diligence in respect to human rights duties.

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. Although the conception of development as the unfolding of a necessary path of progress is strong in some thinking in development, it has not been influential for business and economics.

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. The stage of systematizing ideas can begin with an "identify and describe" phase.

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. The 2015 encyclical of Pope Francis, On Care for Our Common Home, is one recent exploration, as are the Latin American schools of thought and practice on "buen vivir" or living well.

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. During the past five years, "immersion visits" have been talked about and sometimes practised in development bureaucracies.

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. One of the most important questions in the discourse analysis is to ask: Ask who wrote the text, for what audience and purpose, and how this should affect your interpretation of it?

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. Consistency in ethics requires you to ask: is each view/principle consistent with the proponent's other beliefs and commitments?

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. Another fundamental challenge concerns how to get ethical concerns onto organizational and public agendas, and gain attention in a sustained way for weaker groups and uncomfortable issues such as displaced people and basic sanitation.

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. Development ethics themes and tools do not need to concentrate on questions related to religion.

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