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Chapter 10 Self-Quiz
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According to virtue ethics, the fundamental moral question is
What is worth pursuing for its own sake?
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What kind of person should I be?
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What are the fundamental moral rules?
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What do I owe to other people?
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According to virtue ethics, actions are right if and only if, and because they would
maximize the amount of virtue in the world.
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be performed by a virtuous person.
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be performed by someone acting from duty.
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all of the above
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Virtue ethics is a form of ethical
monism.
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absolutism.
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pluralism.
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skepticism.
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According to virtue ethics, the simple formula for right action is
Always act so as to maximize happiness.
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Always treat others as you want them to treat you.
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Always treat others as ends in themselves.
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none of the above
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Virtue ethicists view moral understanding as a species of
practical wisdom.
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intellectual knowledge.
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scientific knowledge.
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moral intuition.
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According to virtue ethics, emotions are
distractions from moral virtue.
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irrelevant to morality.
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evidence that something of value has been lost.
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crucial for moral understanding.
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What should be at the heart of ethical theory, according to virtue ethics?
duty
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pleasure
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moral character
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social contract
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What is the relationship between duty and virtue, according to virtue ethics?
Duty is defined as what a virtuous person would do.
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Virtue is defined as a character trait that leads us to do our duty.
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If one acts from duty, one is necessarily virtuous.
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none of the above
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A moral exemplar is a
rule that virtuous people follow.
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paradigm case of a moral virtue.
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person who is above the moral law.
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person who serves as a moral role model.
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According to the priority problem for virtue ethics,
a person can be virtuous without having all her priorities straight.
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the consequences of an action sometimes have priority over one's intentions.
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virtue ethics lacks a way of ranking moral principles in terms of importance.
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virtue ethics wrongly holds that virtue is more fundamental than duty.
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