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Which philosopher would start with a tabula rasa and then develop ethical standards? - correct answer
✔✔John Rawls
Which school of ethical thought is found in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged? - correct answer
✔✔Ethical Egoism
Which of the following business ethicists encourages us to consider our feelings in making our choices in
ethical dilemmas?
A. laura nash
B. blanchard and peale
C. categorical imperative
D. all of the above - correct answer ✔✔D. All of the Above
A recent survey found that 24% of Americans feel that it is always wrong to speed. In what following
school of ethical thought would this 24% fit best? - correct answer ✔✔Virtue
What happened to the Sadhu in the Parable of the Sadhu? - correct answer ✔✔We do not know what
happened to the Sadhu
Which of the following people is associated with the "Front Page of the Newspaper" test for ethical
dilemmas? - correct answer ✔✔Warren Buffet
Who developed the simple ethical test known as "primum non nocere"? - correct answer ✔✔Peter
Drucker
The Declaration of Independence relied on which ethical school of thought? - correct answer ✔✔Divine
Command
, In the Parable of the Sadhu, who is the lead character and author of the article - correct answer
✔✔Bowen McCoy
Contractions and Justice - correct answer ✔✔Putting ethical standards in place by a social contract; using
rational thinking, people develop a set of rules for everyone.
Categorical Imperative (Kant) - correct answer ✔✔One ought only to act such that the principle of one's
act could become a universal law of human action in a world in which one would hope to live.
"Primum non nocere" means... - correct answer ✔✔"Above all do no harm"
Laura Nash - correct answer ✔✔(1) Have you defined the problem accurately?
(2) How would you define the problem if you stood on the other side of the fence?
(3) How did this occur in the first place?
(4) To whom and what do you give your loyalties as a person and as a member of the corporation?
(5) What is your intention in making this decision?
(6) How does this intention compare with the likely results?
(7) Whom could your decision or action injure?
(8) Can you engage the affected parties in a discussion of the problem before you make your decision?
(9) Are you confident that your position will be as valid over a long period of time as it seems now?
(10) Could you disclose without qualm your decision or action to your boss, your CEO, the board of
directors, your family, or society as a whole?
(11) What is the symbolic potential of your action if understood? If misunderstood?
(12) Under what conditions would you allow exceptions to your stand?
The categories of ethical dilemmas: - correct answer ✔✔Taking things that don't belong to you.
Saying things you know are not true.
Giving or allowing false impressions.
Buying influence or engaging in conflicts of interest.
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