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NUR 104 Health Care Ethics Rationalization Activity Session 4

This document contains a 10 question quiz about health care ethics concepts like utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics and thinkers like Kant, Bentham and Mill. It tests understanding of different ethical theories and their key aspects. For example, it identifies that utilitarianism is a form of consequence-oriented reasoning focused on promoting happiness. It also attributes Kant as the author of the "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals" and notes that the categorical imperative is part of deontological ethics rather than the golden rule.

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NUR 104 Health Care Ethics Rationalization Activity Session 4

This document contains a 10 question quiz about health care ethics concepts like utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics and thinkers like Kant, Bentham and Mill. It tests understanding of different ethical theories and their key aspects. For example, it identifies that utilitarianism is a form of consequence-oriented reasoning focused on promoting happiness. It also attributes Kant as the author of the "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals" and notes that the categorical imperative is part of deontological ethics rather than the golden rule.

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NUR 104

HEALTH CARE ETHICS


RATIONALIZATION ACTIVITY
SESSION 4

1. The most common form of consequence-oriented reasoning is known as?


A. Divine command theory
B. Deontological theory
C. Utilitarianism
D. Virtue ethics

ANSWER: C
Utilitarianism is the most common form of consequence-oriented reasoning, to a utilitarian good resides in the promotion
of happiness or the greatest net increase of pleasure over pain.

2. held that morality Is derived from rationality, not from experience, and obligation is grounded in pure
reason.
A. Jeremy Bentham
B. Immanuel Kant
C. John Stuart Mill
D. Aristotle

ANSWER: B
Kant based his moral philosophy on the crucial fact that we are rational beings, and a central feature of this rationality was
that principles derived from reason are universal.

3. Utilitarianism is a form of what type of reasoning?


A. Consequence-oriented
B. Duty oriented
C. Virtue ethics
D. Divine mandate

ANSWER: A
Utilitarianism is the most common form of consequence-oriented reasoning, to a utilitarian good resides in the promotion
of happiness or the greatest net increase of pleasure over pain.

4. For the ethicist, the basic wrongness of an act depends on the intrinsic nature of the act itself?
A. Consequence-oriented
B. Duty oriented
C. Virtue ethics
D. Divine mandate

ANSWER: B
Duty oriented ethicists feel the basic rightness and wrongness of act depends on its intrinsic nature rather than on the
situation or the consequences. This position is often called deontological theory, taken the Greek word for duty.

5. is a form of utilitarianism that holds that an action can be deemed to be right if it


conforms to a rule that has been validated by the principle of utility.
A. Act of utilitarianism
B. Rule of utilitarianism
C. Kantian ethics
D. Ethics of care
ANSWER: B
Rule utilitarianism seeks to avoid the hedonic calculus of act of utilitarianism in which each option must by measured by
the principle of utility. Rule utilitarianism holds that action can be right if it conforms to a rule that has been previously
validated by the principle of utility
6. The “categorical imperative is part of __ ethics.
A. Duty oriented
B. Virtue
B. Kantian
C. Consequence oriented

ANSWER: A
Categorical imperative is an action could be known to be right when ii was in accordance with rule that satisfied a
principle and this is a part of duty oriented reasoning.

7. “Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals “is the classic work of?


A. Immanuel Kant
B. John Rawls
C. Lawrence Kohlberg
D. Aristotle

ANSWER: A
In the classic work of Kant “Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals” he held that consequences of action were
essentially irrelevant.

8. In the principle of categorical imperative, the imperatives seem to have three elements, which of the following is
NOT part of the elements?
A. Demanding action
B. Unconditionality
C. Golden Rule
D. Universal application

ANSWER: C
Golden rule is not a part of categorical imperative; this is the famous rule that states “Don’t do unto others what others
don’t want to do unto you.”

9. A Scottish author that quoted “Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”
A. Immanuel Kant
B. J.M Barrie
C. John Rawls
D. Morris Massey

ANSWER: B
The above mention was the admonition of J.M Barrie and it is wise to follow this admonition when you are trying to
come to mutual understanding regarding value agreements.

10. Who are considered the Fathers of Utilitarianism?


A. Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill
B. J.M Barrie and John Rawls
C. Morris Massey and J.M Barrie
D. Mahatma Gandhi and Aristotle

ANSWER: A
Bentham and Mill are considered the fathers of utilitarianism, which is the most common form of consequence
oriented reasoning.

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