Unit 4: Optional theme — Ethics
Topic 4.3: Applied ethics Questions
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Fill the gap: The whole debate turns on one word — is helping the distant poor charity, or a ______?
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Applying ethics to a real case means:
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The 'profit vs responsibility' tension in business ethics is between:
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Singer's principle is that:
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The strongest objection to Singer usually argues that:
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True or false? The serious objection to Singer is that distant strangers don't matter morally at all.
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On the euthanasia case, a CONSEQUENCE theorist mainly asks:
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Biomedical ethics is best described as:
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True or false? Applied ethics is a brand-new theory that replaces virtue, duty and consequences.
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Why can one biomedical case get three different answers?
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The idea of 'moral status' asks:
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The stakeholder view replies to Friedman by pointing out that:
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What ties biomedical, business and distribution-of-wealth ethics together?
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On the euthanasia case, a DUTY theorist (Kant) tends to ask:
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'Stakeholders' are:
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Fill the gap: The stakeholder view attacks Friedman by showing that 'legal' isn't the same as ______.
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Friedman's core reason for 'profit only' is that:
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Friedman argues that a company's only social responsibility is to:
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The central question in 'distribution of wealth' is whether helping the distant poor is:
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A weakness of just 'picking one theory' and applying it strictly is that:
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