A business manager who deceives everyone because the manager believes that deception maximizes pleasure over pain in a given situation is acting consistently with which ethical theory?

Kantian ethics is involved with which of the following ethical theories? 

A.	Deontology

B.	Act utilitarianism

C.	Rule utilitarianism

D.	Absolutism

E.	Situational ethics

An ethical theory that urges managers to take those actions that provide the greatest pleasure after having subtracted the pain or harm associated with the action in question is called ______. 

A.	Deontology

B.	Utilitarianism

C.	Kantian ethics

D.	Absolutism

E.	Ethical relativism

A business manager who deceives everyone because the manager believes that deception maximizes pleasure over pain in a given situation is acting consistently with which ethical theory? 

A.	Act deontology

B.	Ethical relativism

C.	Act utilitarianism

D.	Ethical fundamentalism

E.	Rule utilitarianism

A business manager may consider it wrong to terminate a person whose spouse has terminal cancer because a firm has an absolute obligation to support its employees when they are vulnerable, period. The business manager is acting consistently with which ethical theory? 

A.	Deontology

B.	Ethical relativism

C.	Act utilitarianism

D.	Ethical fundamentalism

E.	Rule utilitarianism

A person who believes that they should not cheat on a drug test because if everyone did so, the drug test would be meaningless is applying a[n] ______. 

A.	Ethics of care

B.	Virtual analysis

C.	Cost-benefit analysis

D.	Fundamentalist approach

E.	Categorical imperative

Which of the following helps explain why the principle of deontology may be difficult to apply? 

A.	People disagree about what duties we owe to one another and which duties are more important.

B.	People disagree about whether consequences are positive or negative.

C.	People disagree about the ethics of care.

D.	People disagree about what duties we owe to one another and also whether consequences are positive or negative.

E.	People disagree about what duties we owe to one another, whether consequences are positive or negative, and about the ethics of care.

The ethical system in which the development of virtues, or positive character traits such as courage, justice, and truthfulness, is the basis for morality is called ______. 

A.	Absolutism decision

B.	Virtual analysis

C.	Virtue ethics

D.	Fundamentalist approach

E.	Categorical imperative

Which of the following consists of acting on the basis of the recognition that certain actions are right or wrong, regardless of their consequences? 

A.	Act utilitarianism

B.	Rule utilitarianism

C.	Situational ethics

D.	Virtue ethics

E.	Deontology

What is a difficulty with the application of virtue ethics? 

A.	The applicable categorical imperatives.

B.	The lack of agreement about the meaning of "the good life."

C.	The applicable principle of rights.

D.	The ethics of care analysis.

E.	The lack of agreement regarding which rules on balance produce the greatest amount of pleasure for the greatest number of people.

The ______ adherents believe that when one individual, the caregiver, meets the needs of one other person, the cared-for party, the caregiver is helping to meet the needs of all the individuals who fall within the cared-for party's web of care. 

A.	Deontology

B.	Utilitarianism

C.	Absolutism

D.	Virtue ethics

E.	Ethics of care

The ______ holds that the right course of action is the option most consistent with the building and maintaining of human relationships. 

A.	Ethics of care

B.	Principle of virtue ethics

C.	Deontology

D.	Act utilitarianism

E.	Rule utilitarianism