1. Question :
What school of ethics would drive the commanding officer (CO) to follow rules
and procedures?
Student Answer: Objectivist ethics of self-interest
Aristotle's virtue ethics
Deontological ethics
Aquinas
...
1. Question :
What school of ethics would drive the commanding officer (CO) to follow rules
and procedures?
Student Answer: Objectivist ethics of self-interest
Aristotle's virtue ethics
Deontological ethics
Aquinas' ethics
Care-based ethics
Instructor
Explanation: 1. Deontological Ethics
The deontological ethics of duty to follow requirements and procedures
relate in this case to safety of aircraft operation and travel of people not
trained as air crewmembers.
Points Received: 6 of 6
Question 2
.
Question :
Which of the three primary schools of ethics is operating when the commanding
officer (CO) decides for medical evacuation of the injured sailor in order to aid
the most possible?
Student Answer: Care based
Ends based
Virtue based
Self-interest
Conscience driven
Instructor
Explanation: 2. Utilitarian Ethics
“No matter what . . .” indicates the need to deliver an outcome or
consequence of the decision without regard to the risks or violations
involved.
Points Received: 6 of 6
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Question 3
.
Question :
If the CO had been influenced by studying Thomas Aquinas, his decision making
would be influenced by what factor?
Student Answer: His conscience
His strength of personality
His desire to succeed through successful outcomes
His repentance
His leadership skills
Instructor
Explanation: 3. Thomas Aquinas
This connects to Aquinas’ concept of conscience affecting the
decision maker.
Points Received: 6 of 6
Question 4
.
Question :
An excessive fear of not upsetting the carrier air group
commander is indicative of which of the following?
Student Answer: Consequences-driven ethics
A deficiency of the virtue of courage
An honoring of the social contract
Deontological ethics
Care-based ethics
Instructor
Explanation: 4. Deficiency of the Virtue of Courage
With Aristotle’s virtue ethics of the mean, failure to bother the Carrier Air
Group Commander and even the reluctance to do so is a deficiency of the
virtue of courage: an aberration of the virtue.
Points Received: 6 of 6
Question 5
.
Question :
The maxim "I uphold only the ethical view that all rational beings
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ought uphold" follows _____.
Student Answer: Utilitarian ethics
An Aristotelian moderation of virtue
A strong application of care-based ethics
Kant's categorical imperative in the first formulation
Care-based ethics
Instructor
Explanation:
5. Kant’s Categorical Imperative, first formulation
The key word is maxim, which is only used in the course to connect with
categorical imperative in the first formulation (even though it can look
like care-based ethics is at work).
Points Received: 6 of 6
Question 6
.
Question :
A voice in one's head telling one what the right thing to do is
Student Answer: Aristotle's Virtues of the Mean.
An act of conscience.
Calculated acceptance of unavoidable consequences.
Being driven by personal self-interest and ambition.
Ends-based thinking of the Three Primary Schools of Ethics
Instructor
Explanation: 6. An Act of Conscience
As Ruggiero explains in our text, the notion of conscience is
frequently explained as being a voice in one's head.
Points Received: 6 of 6
Question 7
.
Question :
The CO's concern to maximize the best outcomes for ship and crew applies
which school of ethics?
Student Answer: Care-based school
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Virtue-based school
Ends-based school
Avoidance of extremes position
Rules-based school
Instructor
Explanation: 7. Utilitarian Ethics is within the ends-based school of the three schools of
ethics.
The key phrase best possible outcome is an ends-based indicator of
utilitarian ethics, acknowledging that there are some much worse
possible outcomes.
Points Received: 6 of 6
Question 8
.
Question :
If the CO were to put concern for his personal reputation ahead of the needs of
the injured sailor, what style of ethics would be operating?
Student Answer: Deficiency of courage
Kant's categorical imperative, second formulation
Aquinas' concept of natural law ethics
Ayn Rand's objectivism
James' logical positivism
Instructor
Explanation: 8. Ayn Rand’s Objectivism
The CO’s first, and possibly only, consideration is his own self-interest
for promotion of his career, even above the interests of the injured
sailor or the crew in general.
Points Received: 6 of 6
Question 9
.
Question :
For the CO to consider what the crew as a whole would want for handling the
situation involves what kind of ethics?
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Student
Answer:
Sphere of influence
Utilitarian ethics
Majority thinking
The principle of equity
Care-based ethics
Instructor
Explanation: 9. Utilitarian Ethics
The question asks what outcome is desired by the crew as stakeholders in
the activity, not what they would want for themselves personally if injured.
That consideration comes up at Question 10.
Points Received: 6 of 6
Question 10
.
Question :
If the CO were to take a care-based approach to this emergency situation, what
would he do?
Student Answer: He would try to sympathize with the sailor and feel his pain.
He would try to figure out what he would want if he were the sailor and had
suffered the injury.
He would contact the injured sailor's family at home.
He would follow the published instructions for this kind of emergency
He would get the carrier air group commander to send the helicopter, even
after dark.
Instructor
Explanation: 10. Care-based Ethics
Care-based ethics is indicated by the CO’s attempt to understand
and meet the desires of the sailor as the sailor sees it.
Points Received: 6 of 6
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