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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) , Cost Accounting .
| 251. |
) which is the greatest knowledge according to Socrates ? |
| A. | Value |
| B. | Virtue |
| C. | Law |
| D. | Know Thyself |
| Answer» D. Know Thyself | |
| 252. |
) Knowing one is the real _________ formation. |
| A. | Integral |
| B. | Mutual |
| C. | Spiritual |
| D. | Physical |
| Answer» C. Spiritual | |
| 253. |
) Realization of self helps to realize the _________ self. |
| A. | Lower |
| B. | Middle |
| C. | Supreme |
| D. | Inner |
| Answer» C. Supreme | |
| 254. |
) By nature human is indebted to search for ________ since he is a moral person. |
| A. | Intellect |
| B. | Reason |
| C. | Knowledge |
| D. | Truth |
| Answer» D. Truth | |
| 255. |
) Ethics aims at finding out the truth about something that is both interesting and important ___________. |
| A. | Experience and influence |
| B. | Principles and precepts |
| C. | Rightness and wrongness of human act |
| D. | Existence and essence |
| Answer» C. Rightness and wrongness of human act | |
| 256. |
) _________ is the dream of ethics, according to all ethicist. |
| A. | Good character |
| B. | Communion with God |
| C. | Good knowledge |
| D. | Morally high life |
| Answer» D. Morally high life | |
| 257. |
) ___________ is the moral end. |
| A. | Principles in life |
| B. | Communion with God |
| C. | Good character |
| D. | Free man |
| Answer» C. Good character | |
| 258. |
) _________ is the modern term used to indicate by name of ‘good’ traditionally. |
| A. | Value |
| B. | Personality |
| C. | Education |
| D. | Knowledge |
| Answer» A. Value | |
| 259. |
) Hippocratic Oath is still recited to ___________ students. |
| A. | Engineering |
| B. | C. A. |
| C. | Medical |
| D. | Mechanic |
| Answer» C. Medical | |
| 260. |
) ______ was the greatest Christian theologian and philosopher of middle ages ? |
| A. | Aquinas |
| B. | Willam Craig |
| C. | Karl Rahner |
| D. | Aristotle |
| Answer» A. Aquinas | |
| 261. |
) Eternal law for man cannot be physical, but only ________. |
| A. | Natural |
| B. | Moral |
| C. | Rational |
| D. | Divine |
| Answer» B. Moral | |
| 262. |
) Whether man has reached the highest point of development of his moral consciousness? |
| A. | Yes |
| B. | No |
| C. | Not yet |
| D. | Of course |
| Answer» C. Not yet | |
| 263. |
) The progress of human consciousness is the fact of _________. |
| A. | Universality |
| B. | Emphasis |
| C. | Influence |
| D. | Experience |
| Answer» D. Experience | |
| 264. |
Ethics is concerned precisely with the __________ to decide the right/wrong in human conduct. |
| A. | will |
| B. | norms |
| C. | imagination |
| D. | laws |
| Answer» B. norms | |
| 265. |
The __________ word ‘mores’ is the root of the word ‘morality’. |
| A. | Greek |
| B. | English |
| C. | French |
| D. | Latin |
| Answer» D. Latin | |
| 266. |
Intuitionism 3. Hedonism 4. Human rights 4. Conscience |
| A. | 2, 3, 1, 4 |
| B. | 3, 1, 4, 2 |
| C. | 4, 3, 1, 2 |
| D. | 3, 1, 2, 4 |
| Answer» B. 3, 1, 4, 2 | |
| 267. |
Summum Bonum refers to the _________ good. |
| A. | personal |
| B. | social |
| C. | supreme |
| D. | lower |
| Answer» C. supreme | |
| 268. |
_________ is not a positive science. |
| A. | Ethics |
| B. | Sociology |
| C. | Physics |
| D. | Biology |
| Answer» A. Ethics | |
| 269. |
Ethics as a normative science deals with the __________ of human conduct. |
| A. | ideas |
| B. | standards |
| C. | betterment |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. standards | |
| 270. |
A desire that continues to be effective can be termed a ___________. |
| A. | will |
| B. | motive |
| C. | wish |
| D. | intention |
| Answer» C. wish | |
| 271. |
Human desire is _________ animal appetite. |
| A. | different from |
| B. | similar to |
| C. | the same as |
| D. | not distinguishable from |
| Answer» A. different from | |
| 272. |
A human being may be hungry and yet not __________ food. |
| A. | take |
| B. | provide |
| C. | like |
| D. | desire |
| Answer» D. desire | |
| 273. |
__________ may be outer or inner. |
| A. | Desire |
| B. | Wish |
| C. | Intention |
| D. | All these |
| Answer» C. Intention | |
| 274. |
The motive of an action is a part of the __________. |
| A. | intention |
| B. | will |
| C. | wish |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. intention | |
| 275. |
___________ is a representative of hedonist ethics. |
| A. | Bentham |
| B. | J. S. Mill |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | Neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» C. Both (a) and (b) | |
| 276. |
‘Character’ refers to the complete system constituted by the acts of _________ of a particular kind. |
| A. | wish |
| B. | desire |
| C. | intention |
| D. | will |
| Answer» D. will | |
| 277. |
__________ exactly corresponds to character. |
| A. | Wish |
| B. | conduct |
| C. | Will |
| D. | Desire |
| Answer» B. conduct | |
| 278. |
Find out the items in the List B that match those in the List A. List A List B 1. Hedonism 1.A selected desire 2. Free will 2. Herbert Spencer 3. Wish 3. Pleasure as moral standard 4. Evolutionary morality 4. Higher human faculty |
| A. | 3, 4, 1, 2 |
| B. | 2, 3, 1, 4 |
| C. | 1, 4, 3, 2 |
| D. | 3, 4, 2, 1 |
| Answer» A. 3, 4, 1, 2 | |
| 279. |
Universalistic hedonism is also called ___________. |
| A. | ethical |
| B. | psychological |
| C. | utilitarianism |
| D. | altruism |
| Answer» C. utilitarianism | |
| 280. |
It is wrong to break a promise because as a moral law it cannot be universalized. This illustrates the ethical position of _____________. |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | J. S. Mill |
| C. | Bentham |
| D. | Spencer |
| Answer» A. Kant | |
| 281. |
All conduct either promotes or hinders the organism’s adaptation to the environment. This implies the ___________ theory of morality. |
| A. | hedonist |
| B. | evolutionary |
| C. | intuitionist |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. evolutionary | |
| 282. |
Adjustment of internal relations to external relations is the basic postulate of the ethical theory of ____________. |
| A. | Bentham |
| B. | J. S. Mill |
| C. | Kant |
| D. | Herbert Spencer |
| Answer» D. Herbert Spencer | |
| 283. |
According to ____________, moral life makes the inherent rational/spiritual principle more and more explicit. |
| A. | J. S. Mill |
| B. | T. H. Green |
| C. | Herbert Spencer |
| D. | Bentham |
| Answer» B. T. H. Green | |
| 284. |
________ is the author of Methods of Ethics. |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | T. H. Green |
| C. | Butler |
| D. | Sidgwick |
| Answer» D. Sidgwick | |
| 285. |
Desire and _________ are frequently used as synonymous. |
| A. | pleasure |
| B. | intention |
| C. | wish |
| D. | will |
| Answer» C. wish | |
| 286. |
Find out the mismatching pair. |
| A. | Kant/hedonism |
| B. | Ethics/normative science |
| C. | Intuitionism/conscience |
| D. | Evolutionism/adaptation |
| Answer» A. Kant/hedonism | |
| 287. |
According to __________, conscience is superior to self-love. |
| A. | Bentham |
| B. | J. S. Mill |
| C. | Butler |
| D. | Spencer |
| Answer» C. Butler | |
| 288. |
Actions are right/wrong according to their intrinsic nature. This is the position of _________. |
| A. | Intuitionists |
| B. | Hedonists |
| C. | Utilitarians |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Intuitionists | |
| 289. |
According to Kant, an action is good/bad ____________. |
| A. | with reference to some external standard |
| B. | according to the pleasure/pain it produces |
| C. | in itself |
| D. | extrinsically |
| Answer» C. in itself | |
| 290. |
‘The moral principle that guides your action should become a universal law’. This is the view of _____________. |
| A. | J. S. Mill |
| B. | Bentham |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | neither (a) nor (b) |
| Answer» D. neither (a) nor (b) | |
| 291. |
The ethical theory of ___________ shows a close affinity with Darwin’s theory of evolution. |
| A. | J. S. Mill |
| B. | Herbert Spencer |
| C. | Immanuel Kant |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Herbert Spencer | |
| 292. |
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number” is the dictum of _________ hedonism. |
| A. | egoistic |
| B. | psychological |
| C. | universalistic |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» C. universalistic | |
| 293. |
Sidgwick argued that _________ keeps us impartial in the choice of pleasure. |
| A. | ego |
| B. | reason |
| C. | passion |
| D. | society |
| Answer» B. reason | |
| 294. |
Psychological hedonism recognizes _________ as the object of desire. |
| A. | pleasure |
| B. | reason |
| C. | pain |
| D. | law |
| Answer» A. pleasure | |
| 295. |
According to J. S. Mill, some pleasures are more desirable on account of ___________. |
| A. | quantity |
| B. | quality |
| C. | appetite |
| D. | beauty |
| Answer» B. quality | |
| 296. |
Sidgwick tried a synthesis between __________, J. S. Mill and Kant. |
| A. | Bentham |
| B. | Spencer |
| C. | Butler |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Butler | |
| 297. |
The author of The Data of Ethics is ___________. |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | Spencer |
| C. | Bentham |
| D. | J. S. Mill |
| Answer» B. Spencer | |
| 298. |
Perfection or self-realization is the ________ of moral evolution. |
| A. | beginning |
| B. | content |
| C. | law |
| D. | ideal |
| Answer» D. ideal | |
| 299. |
The view that moral development is directed towards a specific goal is __________. |
| A. | universalistic |
| B. | teleological |
| C. | legal |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» B. teleological | |
| 300. |
__________ is the author of Prolegomena to Ethics. |
| A. | Bentham |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | T. H. Green |
| D. | J. S. Mill |
| Answer» C. T. H. Green | |
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