Chapter 10 Self-Quiz

. According to virtue ethics, the fundamental moral question is

What is worth pursuing for its own sake?

What kind of person should I be?

What are the fundamental moral rules?

What do I owe to other people?

. According to virtue ethics, actions are right if and only if, and because they would

maximize the amount of virtue in the world.

be performed by a virtuous person.

be performed by someone acting from duty.

all of the above

. Virtue ethics is a form of ethical

monism.

absolutism.

pluralism.

skepticism.

. According to virtue ethics, the simple formula for right action is

Always act so as to maximize happiness.

Always treat others as you want them to treat you.

Always treat others as ends in themselves.

none of the above

. Virtue ethicists view moral understanding as a species of

practical wisdom.

intellectual knowledge.

scientific knowledge.

moral intuition.

. According to virtue ethics, emotions are

distractions from moral virtue.

irrelevant to morality.

evidence that something of value has been lost.

crucial for moral understanding.

. What should be at the heart of ethical theory, according to virtue ethics?

duty

pleasure

moral character

social contract

. What is the relationship between duty and virtue, according to virtue ethics?

Duty is defined as what a virtuous person would do.

Virtue is defined as a character trait that leads us to do our duty.

If one acts from duty, one is necessarily virtuous.

none of the above

. A moral exemplar is a

rule that virtuous people follow.

paradigm case of a moral virtue.

person who is above the moral law.

person who serves as a moral role model.

. According to the priority problem for virtue ethics,

a person can be virtuous without having all her priorities straight.

the consequences of an action sometimes have priority over one's intentions.

virtue ethics lacks a way of ranking moral principles in terms of importance.

virtue ethics wrongly holds that virtue is more fundamental than duty.

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