Ethics: Chapter 2 Text Questions

1) One purpose of this chapter is to help you examine your own.....

2) Every Ethical Belief contains two elements. It is what logicians call a subject and a predicate. In regard to ethics, what is a subject and what is a predicate?

3) By Human action, we mean behavior or activity that is deliberate - that is, an action about which a person deliberates and ......

4) The deliberate actions we designate as "ethical" or" unethical" are usually actions that benefit or harm other people or .....

5) First, some moral beliefs an individual holds may not suffice because they are simple beliefs about .....

6) If people always felt like doing what they said they'd do, we wouldn't need..........

7) A healthy self-interest is a good thing. If you don't care about your own benefit,..........

8) The second question to ask of any action is whether or not it is going to be good for ........

9) We see, then, that for every positive right, there is a corresponding ...........

10) But can conceding t oyour likes and dislikes ever be good for you? As we pointed out earlier, we should not confuse what benefits us with what we .........

11) Those who appeal to fairness and rights over consequencesare called .....................

12) What is the number one thing YOU learned from the chapter?