Souryal: Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth, 6th ed.
Chapter 1: Acquainting Yourself with Ethics
Introduction
Compared to other disciplines, criminal justice is an infant discipline. This is probably one
reason it is far more concerned with crime rather than with justice, and with process rather than
with philosophy. As a result, most criminal justice students and practitioners today have not been
adequately exposed to the philosophy of justice or, for that matter, to any serious philosophical
Key Terms
• Determinism
• E=PJ2
• Ethics
• Intentionalism
• Intrinsic goods
• Morality
• Non-intrinsic goods
• Reasoning
• Summum bonum
• The Divided Line
• Theory of realism
• Utilitarianism
Test Questions
1. “A life unexamined is not worth living” is a famous credo of:
2. The study of law is based on the rules of evidence and proof. The study of ethics is based on
the rule of:
3. Which of the following is not an element of the reasoning process as introduced by Socrates?
4. Which of the following is the highest level of knowledge as stated in Plato’s theory of the
divided line?
5. According to Plato, the truth should be gained through investigating both:
6. In the philosophy of ethics, if one says that the “teacher” advocated this or that, who would
that “teacher” be?
7. The principle that reality is a given value that lies in the middle of two extreme qualities is
Aristotle’s theory of realism, which he called:
8. According to Aristotle, the ability to use abstract reasoning as the primary source of
knowledge is:
9. Which President was a critic of situational morality?
10. Which Nature of Truth is substantively critical of the divine view of the truth?