Chapter IV: Lesson 1 (The Meaning of Ethical Framework)

Test I

Direction: Answer the following questions. Encircle the correct answer.

1. What does the individual used to set as a guide in his/her behavior?

a. Standard Principle

b. Ethical Framework

c. Ethics

d. Non-morally standard

2. Who is the philosopher believed that "for virtue ethics, what is moral is what a virtuous
person does"?

a. Aristotle

b. Plato

c. St. Thomas

d. Immanuel Kant

3. Where does the word deontology derived from?

a. Latin

b. Filipino

c. English

d. Greek

4. What is the another term for ethical framework?

a. Non-moral standards

b. Moral standard

c. Standard Principle

d. Code of ethics

5. Who is the philosopher formulate "do good and avoid evil"?

a. Aristotle

b. Plato

c. St. Thomas

d. Immanuel Kant

6. What type of ethical framework state that "what is ethics is what has good consequences"?

a. Virtue or Character Ethics of Aristotle.

b. Natural Law or Commandments Ethics of St. Thomas.
c. Deontological and Duty Framework of Immanuel Kant.
d. Utilitarianist, Teleological, and Consequentialist Framework.

7. According to this ethical framework what is right is based on the categorical, imperative, that
is, one must act such that his/her maxim will be the maxim of all.

a. Virtue or Character Ethics of Aristotle.

b. Natural Law or Commandments Ethics of St. Thomas.

c. Deontological and Duty Framework of Immanuel Kant.

d. Utilitarianist, Teleological, and Consequentialist Framework.

8. One of the ethical framework states that "what is moral is what a virtuous person does".

a. Virtue or Character Ethics of Aristotle.

b. Natural Law or Commandments Ethics of St. Thomas.

c. Deontological and Duty Framework of Immanuel Kant.

d. Utilitarianist, Teleological, and Consequentialist Framework.

9. Which of the following is not belong to the ethical framework?

a. Virtue or Character Ethics of Aristotle.

b. Nature Law of St. Thomas.

c. Deontological and Duty Framework of Immanuel Kant.

d. Love and Justice Framework

10. What is ethical is what are just and loving?

a. Virtue or Character Ethics of Aristotle.

b. Natural Law or Commandments Ethics of St. Thomas.

c. Deontological and Duty Framework of Immanuel Kant.

d. Love and Justice Framework

1. B

2. A

3. D

4. B

5. C

6. D

7. C

8. A

9. B

10. D

1. The middle measure of an action, feeling, or passion.

a. Practical wisdom
b. Mesotes
c. Moral

2. He/she concerned with achieving his/her appropriate action in manner that is

either excessive or deficient.
a. Immoral Virtuous Person
b. Decent Person
c. Morally Virtuous Person

3. According to Aristotle, “Developing a involves learning from

experiences.”
a. Virtue
b. Moral Virtue
 c. Practical wisdom
4. Is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean; this being
determined by a rational principle.
a. Moral Virtue
b. Mesotes
c. Moral
5. Nothing is lacking, or too much from an act that is morally good.
a. Mesotes
b. Deficiency
c. Excess

6. “There is no good (mesotes) in something that is already considered a bad act”

the author of this quote is .
a. Plato
b. Pascal
c. Aristotle

7. Moral virtues are exemplified by:

a. Courage, temperance, liberty
b. Coward, temperance, freedom
c. Wisdom, moral, value

8. What are the excess vices of virtue?

a. Courage, temperance, liberty
b. Impulsiveness, Recklessness, Prodigality
c. Indecisiveness, Cowardice, Meanness

9. What are the deficiency vices of virtue?

a. Courage, temperance, liberty
b. Impulsiveness, Recklessness, Prodigality
c. Indecisiveness, Cowardice, Meanness

10. Aristotle describes a virtue as a or

between two extremes: one of excess and one of deficiency.
a. “middle” “left”
b. “mean” “right”
c. “mean” “intermediate”
Test I. Multiple Choice
1. Who stated that excellence is an activity of the human soul and therefore, one needs to
understand the very structure of a person's soul which must be directed by her rational
activity in an excellent way.

a. Aristotle
b. Avogadro
c. Plato
d. Rutherford

2. This part of man is not in the realm where virtue is exercised because, as the term
suggests, it cannot be dictated by reason.

a. Irrational Element
b. Rational Element
c. Virtue
d. Excellence

3. Who stated that excellence is attained through teaching. Through time, one learns from
our vast experiences in life where he/she gains knowledge of these things.

a. Aristotle
b. Avogadro
c. Plato
d. Rutherford

4. It deals with attaining knowledge about the fundamental principles and truth that govern
the universe. (Helps to understand the natural meaning of life).

a. Ultimate Wisdom
b. Super Wisdom
c. Philosophic wisdom
d. Practical wisdom

5. It is excellence in knowing the conduct in carrying particular act. (One can attain wisdom
that can provide us with guide on how to behave our daily life)
a. Ultimate Wisdom
b. Super Wisdom
c. Philosophic wisdom
d. Practical wisdom

6. States that moral goodness is already within the realm of intellectual excellence.
Knowing good implies the ability to perform morally virtues act.

a. Aristotle
b. Socrates
c. Plato
d. Rutherford

7. Concerns the act of doing

a. Happiness
b. Love
c. Moral
d. Intellectual

8. It is an act of knowing.

a. Happiness
b. Love
c. Moral
d. intellectual

9. An aspect that functions as giving nutrition and providing the activity of physical growth
in a person.

a. Vegetative
b. Negative
c. Positive
d. Appetitive

10. The act of desiring in itself is an inpulse that naturally runs counter to reason and most of
the time refuses to go along with reason.

a. Vegetative
b. Negative
c. Positive
d. Appetitive

1.) Religion determines what is moral and immoral based on revelation.

a. True
b. False
c. Somehow true nor false
d. None of the above

2.) He said that conscience reveals to us a moral law whose source cannot be found
in the natural world, thus pointing to a natural Lawgiver.
a. Immanuel Kant
b. Robert Adams
c. C.S. Lewis
d. Sim Kwang Yang

3.) He argued that moral obligation is best explained by appeal to the commands of
a loving God, and moral values in general may be thought to reflect God's nature.
a. Immanuel Kant
b. Robert Adams
c. C.S. Lewis
d. Sim Kwang Yang

4.) He argued that ethics without religion cannot be justified ultimately.

a. Immanuel Kant
b. Robert Adams
c. C.S. Lewis
d. Sim Kwang Yang
 5.) Religion is not support of ethics contrary to ethics.
a. True
b. False
a. Somehow true nor false
b. None of the above

6. He said that if there is no God then there are objective moral requirements that
are not possibly met, namely, that the moral good of virtue and the natural good
of happiness embrace and become perfect in a highest good.
a. Immanuel Kant
b. Robert Adams
c. C.S. Lewis
d. Sim Kwang Yang

1.) It is not true that ethics is atheistic or opposed to religious belief.

a. True
b. False
a. Somehow true nor false
b. None of the above

2.) Religion draws answer to what is moral and ethical from revelation as written in
Scriptures as "lived by their prophets and Jesus Christ (for Christians) while
ethics gets its answer to what is moral and ethical from reason and experience.
a. True
b. False
c. Somehow true nor false
d. None of the above
3.) He said that ethics is possible without religion and set the works of Socrates and
Confucius as an example without resource to any supernatural being.
a. Immanuel Kant
b. Robert Adams
c. C.S. Lewis
d. Sim Kwang Yang

4.) He is the father of utilitarianism, a moral theory that argues that actions should
be judged right or wrong to the extent they increase or decrease human well-being
or 'utility'.
a. Immanuel Kant
b. Robert Adams
c. Jeremy Bentham
d. John Stuart Mill

1. He is known for his most compelling and enduring ideas─ notion of a supreme
and absolutely transcendent good
a. Aristotle c. St. Thomas
b. Plato d. Socrates
2. In Plato’s work, “The Republic” what does He trying to envision?
a. Good is real c. Ideal society
b. Sight and Light d. Every form is a perfect idea
3. What is Plato’s philosophy that strives to understand everything on the basis of a
single cause that they considered divine?
a. Neoplatonic good c. Four causes
b. The Good and the One d. The Idea of the Good
4. He is a Greek philosopher who proposes four concept which provide a way of
understanding any particular being.
a. Aristotle c. Socrates
b. Plato d. St. Thomas
5. What is Aristotle’s philosophy that discuss beings?
a. The idea of the good c. Neoplatonic good
b. The Good and the One d. Aristotelian Being and Becoming
6. In describing a being, Aristotle introduced what principle?
 a. Neoplatonic good c. Potency and Act
b. The One and the Beautiful d. The idea of the good
7. Cause is that out of which a thing comes to be which persist
a. Material Cause c. Final Cause
b. Formal Cause d. Efficient Cause

8. Cause is the form or the archetype, the statement of the essence and its genera.
a. Material Cause c. Final Cause
b. Formal Cause d. Efficient Cause

9. Cause if the primary source of the change or coming to rest and generally what
makes of what is made and what causes change of what is changed.
a. Material Cause c. Final Cause
b. Formal Cause d. Efficient Cause

10. Cause is the sense of end or “that for the sake of which” a thing is done.
a. Material Cause c. Final Cause
b. Formal Cause d. Efficient Cause

1. Who is this Philosopher and saint who became renowned for his natural law theory?
A. St. Thomas Aquinas C. St. Thomas Becket
B. St. Charles Borromeo D. St. Augustine

2. Who is the Greek philosopher influenced Aquinas?

A. Epicurus C. Aristotle
B. Heraclitus D. Anselm

3. Serves as the ground of ethics or we call it the universal standards of what is right
and what is wrong.
A. Eternal Law C. Human Law
B. Natural law D. Divine Law

4. In Aquinas’s view, man’s ultimate happiness consists in ________.

A. pleasure C. acts of the moral virtues
B. loving God D. contemplating God
5. Aquinas argues that the end of every action is ________.
A. some desire C. some good
B. some pleasure D. some emotional state

6. In Aquinas’s view, acts of prudence are solely about matters of ________.

A. pleasure C. piety
B. desire D. moral virtue

7. Which of the following does NOT belong to the natural inclination of a human person?
A. Self-Preservation C. Propagation of Human Species
B. Just Dealing with Others D. Love your neighbor

8. It is a natural inclination that urges the human person to protect his or her life and
health.
A. Self-Preservation C. Propagation of Human Species
B. Just Dealing with Others D. None of the above

9. It is a natural inclination that urges us to treat others with the same respect that we
accord ourselves.
A. Self-Preservation C. Propagation of Human Species
B. Just Dealing with Others D. Both B and C

10. It is a natural inclination that the reproductive organ is by nature designed to

reproduce and propagate human species.
A. Self-Preservation C. Propagation of Human Species
B. Just Dealing with Others D. All of the above
1. I don’t smoke because it is harmful. It is an example of?

a. autonomy b. heteronomy c. polygamy d. trigonometry

2. Alex loves Dave because of his money. It is an example of?

a. autonomy b. heteronomy c. polygamy d. trigonometry

3. Mike doesn’t cheat because he is afraid that his wife will know it. It is an example of?

a. autonomy b. heteronomy c. polygamy d. trigonometry

4. It is the capacity to deliberate and give oneself the moral law.

a. morality b. universality c. autonomy d. heteronomy

5. It is heeding the injunctions of external factors such as jealousy.

a. morality b. universality c. autonomy d. heteronomy

6. Autonomy is exercised whenever ethical decisions are based on?

a. experience b. personal beliefs c. feelings of others d. all of the above

7. Which of the following is NOT an example of bodily impulse?

a. kissing b. sex c. punching d. anger

8. Which of the following is NOT an example of emotional impulse?

a. jealousy b. happiness c. sleeping d. grief

9. It is also known as animal choice.

a. rational will b. pure reason c. sensible impulse d. free will

10. Rational will is driven by?

a. emotions b. pure reason c. bodily impulse d. external factors

Answer Key

1. a 6. b
2. b 7. d
 3. b 8. c
4. c 9. c
5. d 10. b

1. It is a moral theory that evaluates actions that are done because of duty is called
_________?

A. Agency
B. Deontology
C. Obligation
D. Rational will

2. He was the main proponent of Deontology.

A. Immanuel Kant
B. William Kay
C. Copernicus
D. Aristotle

3. It is an ability of a person and animals to perceive and navigate its external

environment.

A. Sentence
B. Sentent
C. Sentience
D. Sentience

4. An ability of a person to act based on her intentions and mental states.

A. Rational will
B. Agency
C. Duty
D. Obligation

5. Deontology comes from the greek word deon which means _______.

A Being necessary
B. Being obligated
C. Being agent
D. Being a person
6. The faculty to intervene in the world, to act in a manner that is consistent with our
reason is called _________.

A. Freedom
B. Rational will
C. Rational mind
D. Free will

7. As long as we have rationality, there will always be tension between our base
impulses and our rational will.

A. True
B. False
C. Maybe
D. None of the above

8. Deontology refers to the study of ______ and _______.

A. Agency and duty

B. Duty and rational will
C. Duty and obligation
D. Obligation and agency

9. In this work, Immanuel can emphasize that we can you man beings have difficulty
called rational will, which is a capacity to according to principles that we determine for
our selves.

A. Ground world toward metaphysics of Morals

B. Groundwork toward physics of Morals
C. Ground world toward physics of Morals
D. Groundwork toward metaphysics of Morals

10. Animals are sentient organisms.

A. No
B. Yes
C. Maybe
D. None of the above