JMJ Marist Brothers Ms. Quennie Marie S.

Zuyco, RSW
NDMU, Koronadal City Final Examination
SUMMER 2019 SSP 114 - ETHICS

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Read, understand and follow the instructions in each test items.
2. Write all your answers legibly on the front pages of the test booklet.
3. Strictly no cheating. Students who will cheat on exams, violate the Academic
Integrity policy of the University and will receive F (0) point on the test.
4. Use of cellphones or any sort of gadget is prohibited.
5. After answering the exam, fold the questionnaire, insert it to the test booklet and
submit to the exam proctor.

TEST I. IDENTIFICATION: Write the term that best described the statement. (30 pts)
1. Is defined as an approach to ethics that emphasizes the person's character in moral
thinking.
2. It is usually understood as a kind of normative theory with regard to what is choices
are morally required, or permitted.
3. It holds the idea that a moral action centers on social and environmental relationships
in which care or kindness is considered as the main virtue.
4. It aims for eternal goodness rather than depending on the contingent recurrence of
certain action.
5. Is instrumental to the devilment of virtue because it is considered to be the consistent
pattern of doing virtuous actions.
6. Is supposed to provide a way for us to evaluate moral actions and to make
moral judgments. It is not a command to perform specific actions-- it does not say,”
follow the10 commandments", or "respect your elders". It is essentially "empty" -- it is
simply formal procedure by which to evaluate any action about which might be morally
relevant.
7.Refers to "essence of things". It cannot be known because it is beyond experience.
8. Is the ultimate end of our actions. Our ultimate desire is to be happy.
9. is the strict obedience to the categorical imperative. It entails a commitment to the
absolute command, an obligation to the law as such. "Everyone must admit that ; if it is
to hold morally, must imply absolute necessity.
10. According to Kant, it is our knowledge begins with experience there can be no
doubt. In respect of time, no knowledge of ours is antecedent to experience, but it
begins with it.
JMJ Marist Brothers Ms. Quennie Marie S. Zuyco, RSW
NDMU, Koronadal City Final Examination
SUMMER 2019 SSP 114 - ETHICS
11.It came from a Greek word “pragma” which means action. It was intended to counter
the pervading approach of knowing the modern era which was stacked on rationalism
and empiricism
12. An aspect of human action which occurs in human decision. It is in human decision
because it is where it is carried out and that is where an act culminates.
13.A grand group of people who respects the power that is exercised on them.
Concerned with the opportunities in life. Their notion is to achieve results. Sets grand
goals and works hard to attain them. They build civilizations.
14. An aspect of human action that stands in the background but not undermined
because it is still active in the process.
15. A universal category in Pragmatism that refers to the idea of phenomenon in so far
as it has a relation of dependence with another to which it is connected without
mediation of the third.
16. Is what produces happiness or pleasure and what prevents pain or unhappiness.
There is no distinction between pleasure and happiness
17. Refers to what is the probability that the happiness will lead to other or to further
happiness.
18.Refers to how strong is the pleasure that we can derive from a certain action or
experience.
19.A principle that holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote
happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is
intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of
pleasure.
20.It argues that the maximization of happiness or utility is the basic criteria by which we
must judge the morality of an action.
21. It is concerned with actions, processes, and consequences, that are morally right
honorable, and equitable quality of making judgments that are free from discrimination.
22.A theory grounded on the ideal of society as a system of mutual cooperation
between free and equal persons.
23. By virtue of this principle, no one is entitled to the greater share of the society's
primary goods even if one may claim that he has merited whatever benefits she is
having at the present because she worked hard for them.
24. In this principle, each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic
liberty compatible with similar liberty for others.
25. It takes form of a moral claim of inviolability.
JMJ Marist Brothers Ms. Quennie Marie S. Zuyco, RSW
NDMU, Koronadal City Final Examination
SUMMER 2019 SSP 114 - ETHICS
26. The fact that all things depend on God as the first cause of all things that exist as
well as their final end is the root of this this hierarchy.
27. Is God’s wisdom that directs the and movements of His creatures in their
appropriate way towards the proper end.
28. Is subject to eternal law in away more than plants and animals.
29. Is simply us acting and function properly as rational moral beings. This is our way of
participating in God’s plan.
30.A principle that believes that it is still permissible to perform a moral act that could
cause bad effects.

Test II. MATCHING TYPE: Match column A to column B. Write the letter of your answer.
Use CAPITAL LETTER only. (10 pts)

COLUMN A COLUMN B
1.Happiness is Man’s ultimate End A. Josh Stuart Mill
2. Theory of Justice B. Charles Sanders Peirce
3.Theori of Right C. Aristotle
4.Hierachy of Pleasure D. Immanuel Kant
5.Pragmatism E. Plato
6.Principle of Utility F. Thomas Aquinas
7.Nicomachean Ethics G. John Rawls
8.Categorical Imperative H. Jeremy Bentham
9. Hedonistic Calculus I. Socrates
10.Telos or Ultimate End J. Robert Nozick
K. Paul Glenn
L. Epicurus

TEST III. TRUE OR FALSE: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the
statement is incorrect. (10 pts)
1.Virtue is a start of character that is concerned with choosing the good and the right, is
the only requirement for happiness.
2. The three main strands of virtue ethics provide guidance for the person in the
achievement of happiness.
3. Most of our decisions are pragmatic because they are based on right or wrong
choices not practical reasons.
JMJ Marist Brothers Ms. Quennie Marie S. Zuyco, RSW
NDMU, Koronadal City Final Examination
SUMMER 2019 SSP 114 - ETHICS
4. Peirce is concerned with: the important role of action and decision-making in one’s
life. As such, his philosophy has frequently been characterized by the phrase, “what is
true is effective”.
5. John Rawls’s theory of justice is enshrined in his conception of justice as fairness. He
argued that the concepts of freedom and equality are not mutually exclusive.
6. Pragmatism argues that the maximization of happiness or utility is the basic criteria
by which we must judge the morality of an action.
7. The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian
theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic.
8.For Aquinas, because God is a material being, we are united with God by knowing
and loving him.
9.Kantian ethics is aimed at the realization of the godlike self of the human person. The
morality of a human act us based not on the consequences, but on rules or duty.
10.According to Neuroethics, form part of or normal brain functioning, which suggests
that reason and emotions are neutral partners. Hence, emotions are not purely
irrational.

TEST IV. ENUMERATION: List down the following. (25 pts)

1-3 The Natural Moral Obligation
4-8 To measure the amount of happiness in each action, seven factors should be
considered:
9-10 Kinds of Right
11-13 The Three Universal Categories in Pragmatism
14-16 Three Main stands of Virtue Ethics
17-20 Main concepts of distributive justice
21-23 Contemporary philosophers who contributed theories regarding justice and its
development
24-25 Stages of Intellectual Virtue

TEST V. ESSAY: Explain/Discuss each of the following, your essay should be well
organized and must be written legibly. (10pts)
1.Briefly discuss the on your report. What are your learnings about it? How will you
apply these in your life?

-End of Test-
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