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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. The opposite of virtue is weakness.
a. True
b. False
2. Virtue ethics emphasizes how we should determine what is the right thing to do.
a. True
b. False
3. In virtue ethics, the primary goal is to be a good person.
a. True
b. False
4. The virtue of courage should enable one to face danger.
a. True
b. False
5. According to Aristotle, virtues allow a person to fulfill essential human purposes.
a. True
b. False
6. In Aristotle’s theory, each virtue corresponds to exactly one opposing vice.
a. True
b. False
7. Virtues are positive traits of character.
a. True
b. False
8. For Aristotle, eudaimonia is a kind of happiness.
a. True
b. False
9. Eudaimonia is identical to pleasure.
a. True
b. False
10. According to MacIntyre, virtues depend on the practices of a culture.
a. True
b. False
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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11. Which of the following was NOT mentioned in your text as an example of the kinds of questions virtue ethics focuses
on?
a. How to treat ones co-workers.
b. How honest one should be.
c. How to pick a side in the debate of a major social issue.
d. What is fair in a particular situation.
12. Virtue Ethics helps us determine
a. Whether an action is moral.
b. Whether a form of ethical reasoning is virtuous.
c. How to calculate between consequential and nonconsequential reasoning.
d. How we ought to be.
13. According to the text, in the USA to say we value courage, patriotism, and loyalty would suggest we are
a. A society willing to stand for what we believe.
b. A warlike society.
c. A just society.
d. A prosperous society.
14. Pride is the virtue between _____________ and _____________.
a. Humility and vanity.
b. Humility and arrogance.
c. Vanity and meekness.
d. Meekness and arrogance.
15. According to Aristotle the good is
a. The end to which all things aim.
b. The best option available.
c. That which gives the best consequence.
d. That which makes one happy.
16. According to Philippa Foot a virtue is a perfection of
a. Mind.
b. Action.
c. Reasoning.
d. Will.
17. Which virtue does Philippa Foot identify as benefiting community rather than self?
a. Temperance
b. Charity
c. Wisdom
d. Courage
Indicate one or more answer choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.
18. Confucius’ ethics is presented in a text known as
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a. the Nicomachean Ethics
b. Summa Theologica
c. the “noble eightfold path”
d. the Analects
19. Which of the following is among the intellectual virtues included in Buddhism’s “noble eightfold path?”
a. mindfulness
b. practical wisdom
c. right speech
d. faith
20. Which of the following pairs are the two main virtues emphasized in Confucian ethics?
a. Courage and loyalty
b. Compassion and propriety
c. Wisdom and wit
d. Prudence and temperance
21. Which of the following is NOT among Aquinas’ three “theological virtues?”
a. faith
b. chastity
c. hope
d. love
22. Which of the following is NOT among the five basic moral virtues emphasized in Hinduism?
a. nonviolence
b. chastity
c. justice
d. freedom from greed
23. Your text cites several cross-cultural examples of virtue ethics. Compare and contrast at least two different cultural
examples of virtue ethics, indicating specific virtues that each emphasizes. Describe the common thread that links these
different traditions together as traditions of virtue ethics.
24. Explain the relationship, in Aristotle’s ethics, between human virtues and human nature.
25. Using an example of a specific virtue, explain Aristotle’s notion of the Golden Mean. What is Kant’s criticism of this
notion?
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Answer Key
1. False
2. False
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