Virtue Ethics

  Virtue Ethics emphasizes which of the following:

        a.  Moral obligation

        b.   Happiness

        c.    Utility

         d.   Stoicism

17. Aquinas identifies the love of God as the ultimate goal  that will lead to happiness because it

         a.   Will avoid divine punishment

         b.   Is written in the Bible

          c.   Is large enough to encompass all other values

          d.   Creates an appearance of holiness

18.  Because Ayn Rand praised  selfishness as a virtue, she taught:

          a.    Virtue Ethics

          b.   Ethical egoism

          c.   Feminist ethics of care for the womanly self

          d.   Collectivism

19.  The Principle of Double Effect allows which of the following:

           a.  Some actions causing harms of a serious kind

           b.  The intention to do harm if proportionate

           c.   Reliance on harms to cause proportionate good effects

           d.   Any harm that is not directly intended

20.  A theme of Shirley Jacksons story, “The Lottery,” is that:

            a.  Do-gooders get what they deserve

             b. The community is the bearer of values

             c.  The virtue of selfishness

             d.  Descriptive ethics may fail normative evaluation