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180+ Ethics Solved MCQs

These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) , Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) .

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1.

Ethics is the science of :

A. beauty
B. truth
C. conduct
D. mind
Answer» C. conduct
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2.

The word "ethics" is derived from the Greek word :

A. ethos
B. ethies
C. ethees
D. ethise
Answer» A. ethos
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3.

Ethos means:

A. conduct
B. customs
C. character
D. good
Answer» C. character
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4.

The word mores means:

A. conduct
B. customs
C. character
D. good
Answer» B. customs
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5.

The term Right is derived from the Latin

A. ritus
B. ritchus
C. rectus
D. rightss
Answer» C. rectus
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6.

Rectus means:

A. straight
B. direct
C. correct
D. good
Answer» A. straight
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7.

The term Good is connected with the German term:

A. goto
B. gutte
C. gud
D. gut
Answer» D. gut
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8.

Ethics is a------------------------science.

A. positive
B. applied
C. normative
D. systematic
Answer» C. normative
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9.

Normative science deals with:

A. standards
B. facts
C. judgements
D. none of these
Answer» A. standards
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10.

Aesthetics deals with the standard of:

A. beauty
B. truth
C. goodness
D. conduct
Answer» A. beauty
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11.

Ethics deals with the standard of:

A. beauty
B. truth
C. goodness
D. fact
Answer» C. goodness
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12.

Logic deals with the norm of:

A. beauty
B. truth
C. goodness
D. conduct
Answer» B. truth
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13.

Positive science concerned with:

A. facts
B. norms
C. standards
D. rules
Answer» A. facts
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14.

‘Ethics is neither a practical science nor an art’, This assertion is:

A. wrong
B. correct
C. neither right nor wrong
D. none of these
Answer» B. correct
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15.

Truth, Beauty, and -------------are considered as the principles of philosophy.

A. fact
B. goodness
C. conduct
D. none of these
Answer» B. goodness
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16.

The applied dimension of Ethics is known as:

A. applied ethics
B. normative ethics
C. meta ethics
D. none of these
Answer» A. applied ethics
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17.

---------------- deals with logical and semantic questions like ‘What do we mean by “freedom” and “determinism”

A. applied ethics
B. normative ethics
C. practical ethics
D. meta ethics
Answer» D. meta ethics
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18.

Ethics determines rightness or wrongness of-------------------

A. human actions
B. human thought
C. human judgements
D. none of these
Answer» A. human actions
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19.

When we a say that conduct is right, we mean primarily that;

A. it is according to truth
B. it is according to rule
C. it is according to law
D. none of these
Answer» B. it is according to rule
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20.

A thing is generally said to be good when it is valuable for

A. some end.
B. some practice
C. some action
D. some facts
Answer» A. some end.
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21.

Positive science deals with judgments of facts while ethics is concerned with judgments of:

A. beauty
B. truth
C. thought
D. value
Answer» D. value
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22.

Logic deals with the correctness of

A. thought
B. conduct
C. perception
D. intuition
Answer» A. thought
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23.

Ethics deals with the correctness of

A. conduct
B. thought
C. perception
D. intuition
Answer» A. conduct
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24.

------------------ is not a normative discipline.

A. ethics
B. logic
C. metaphysics
D. aesthetics
Answer» C. metaphysics
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25.

Ethics deals with the standards to describe------------------------

A. good and evil
B. true and false
C. right and good
D. all of these
Answer» C. right and good
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26.

Ethics is concerned the ------------------- to judge human conduct

A. standards
B. facts
C. objects
D. all of these
Answer» A. standards
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27.

Logic, Ethic and Aesthetics- these three sciences are essentially -------------------

A. positive
B. intuitive
C. cognate
D. none of these
Answer» C. cognate
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28.

Ethics investigates the nature of its fundamental notions like right, duty and ---------

A. beauty
B. good
C. thought
D. none of these
Answer» B. good
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29.

Ethics considers the ------------ of goodness.

A. standard
B. fact
C. object
D. all of these
Answer» A. standard
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30.

Morality consists of goodness, which is really an ------------- end

A. effective
B. intrinsic
C. instrumental
D. teleogical
Answer» B. intrinsic
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31.

---------------is a collective name for voluntary actions:

A. virtue
B. conduct
C. desire
D. will
Answer» B. conduct
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32.

--------------------is a sense of longing for a person or object or hoping for an outcome.

A. wish
B. instinct
C. tendency
D. desire
Answer» D. desire
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33.

‘Human desire is the fundamental motivation of all human action’. Whose view is this?

A. hobbes
B. mathew arnold
C. mcdougall
D. mackenzie
Answer» A. hobbes
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34.

Consciousness of ----------is called an appetite.

A. a wish
B. a desire
C. a motive
D. an organic need
Answer» D. an organic need
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35.

Who defines an instinct as an inherited psycho physical disposition?

A. hobbes
B. mathew arnold
C. mcdougall
D. mackenzie
Answer» C. mcdougall
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36.

The desires that predominate or continue to be effective is called:

A. wish
B. will
C. instinct
D. none of these
Answer» A. wish
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37.

------------- a conscious mental process which moves a man to act in a particular way.

A. wish
B. will
C. instinct
D. motive
Answer» D. motive
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38.

The term intention corresponds the term:

A. desire
B. purpose
C. instinct
D. none of these
Answer» B. purpose
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39.

The whole willed scheme of action, which is anticipated by the doer is called:

A. desire
B. purpose
C. instinct
D. intention.
Answer» D. intention.
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40.

According to Mackenzie the formal intention means the -------------------embodied in fact

A. principle
B. purpose
C. instinct
D. action
Answer» A. principle
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41.

The particular result as a realised fact is:

A. remote intention
B. formal intention
C. immediate intention
D. material intention
Answer» D. material intention
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42.

The remote intention of an act is sometimes called:

A. motive
B. purpose
C. instinct
D. action
Answer» A. motive
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43.

“The motive means, of course, what moves us or causes us to act in a particular way”. Who asserted this?

A. mcdougall
B. hobbes
C. mackenzie
D. mathew arnold
Answer» C. mackenzie
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44.

A person’s conduct corresponding to his ---------------------

A. motive
B. habit
C. character
D. action
Answer» C. character
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45.

Desire is a sense of longing of a person for ----------------

A. an end
B. a action
C. an outcome
D. none of these
Answer» C. an outcome
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46.

Hobbes asserted that human desire is the ----------------------- of all human action.

A. fundamental intention
B. fundamental nature
C. fundamental character
D. fundamental motivation
Answer» D. fundamental motivation
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47.

An intention which the agent does not definitely avows to himself is called:

A. remote intention
B. formal intention
C. unconscious intention
D. conscious intention
Answer» C. unconscious intention
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48.

When a man acts blindly without considering the end or result of his action. Such actions is called:

A. impulsive action
B. voluntary action
C. organic actions
D. none of these
Answer» A. impulsive action
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49.

A motive is -------------------- mental process

A. an intuitive
B. a conscious
C. an unconscious
D. an immediate
Answer» B. a conscious
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50.

Sucking of the thump by a child is a:

A. impulsive action
B. involuntary action
C. habitual action
D. none of these
Answer» C. habitual action
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