Chapter 1

Question 1

__________ is derived from the Greek word “ethos”, which means ‘character’ or manners.

Answer 1

Ethics

Question 2

It is a branch of philosophy that studies morality or the rightness or wrongness of human conduct.

Answer 2

Ethics

Question 3

This speaks a code or system of behavior in regards to standards of right or wrong behavior.

Answer 3

Morality

Question 4

Who proclaims that the importance of the study of ethics follows immediately from the importance of ethics itself. His idea manifested in the following: ethics means right living and good moral character and it is in good moral character that man finds his true worth and perfection; and education is the harmonious development of the whole man-of all man’s faculties: the moral, intellectual, and physical powers in man.

Answer 4

Montemayor (1994)

Question 5

_______ norms that individuals or groups have about the kinds of actions believed to be morally right or wrong, as well as the values placed on what we believed to be morally good or morally bad.

Answer 5

Moral Standards

Question 6

________ refer to standards by which we judge what is good or bad and right or wrong in a non-moral way.

Answer 6

Non-Moral Standards

Question 7

According to some scholars, norms plus values equal to what?

Answer 7

Moral Standards

Question 8

This is a matter of taste or preference.

Answer 8

Non-Moral Standards

Question 9

This refers to a situation in which a tough decision has to be made between two or more options, especially more or less equally undesirable ones.

Answer 9

Dilemma

Question 10

Also called as “ethical dilemmas”, are situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action, either of which entails transgressing a moral principle.

Answer 10

Moral Dilemma

Question 11

Are those experienced and resolved on a personal level.

Answer 11

Personal Dilemmas

Question 12

Refer to ethical cases encountered and resolves by social organization.

Answer 12

Organizational Dilemma

Question 13

Refer to cases involving network of institutions and operative theoretical paradigms.

Answer 13

Structural Dilemmas

Question 14

Only human beings are ______, ________, and __________.

Answer 14

rational, autonomous, self-conscious

Question 15

Only human beings can act ______ and ______.

Answer 15

morally, immorally

Question 16

Only human beings are part of the _________.

Answer 16

moral community

Question 17

Only humans can be ______.

Answer 17

ETHICAL