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Ethics Multiple Choice Questions
1. Ethics is the science of :
A. beauty
B. truth
C. conduct
D. mind
Answer: C. conduct
2. The word “ethics” is derived from the Greek word :

A. ethos
B. ethies
C. ethees
D. ethise
Answer: A. ethos
3. Ethos means:
A. conduct
B. customs
C. character
D. good
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Answer: C. character
4. The word mores means:

A. conduct
B. customs
C. character
D. good
Answer: B. customs
5. The term Right is derived from the Latin

A. ritus
B. ritchus
C. rectus
D. rightss
Answer: C. rectus
6. Rectus means:
A. straight
B. direct
C. correct
D. good
Answer: A. straight
7. The term Good is connected with the German term:

A. goto
B. gutte
C. gud
D. gut
Answer: D. gut
8. Ethics is a⸻⸻⸺science.
A. positive
B. applied
C. normative
D. systematic
Answer: C. normative
9. Normative science deals with:

A. standards
B. facts
C. judgements
D. none of these
Answer: A. standards
10. Aesthetics deals with the standard of:

A. beauty
B. truth
C. goodness
D. conduct
Answer: A. beauty
11. Ethics deals with the standard of:

A. beauty
B. truth
C. goodness
D. fact
Answer: C. goodness
12. Logic deals with the norm of:

A. beauty
B. truth
C. goodness
D. conduct
Answer: B. truth
13. Positive science concerned with:

A. facts
B. norms
C. standards
D. rules
Answer: A. facts
14. ‘Ethics is neither a practical science nor an art’, This assertion is:
A. wrong
B. correct
C. neither right nor wrong
D. none of these
Answer: B. correct
15. Truth, Beauty, and ⸻—-are considered as the principles of

philosophy.
A. fact
B. goodness
C. conduct
D. none of these
Answer: B. goodness
16. The applied dimension of Ethics is known as:

A. applied ethics
B. normative ethics
C. meta ethics
D. none of these
Answer: A. applied ethics
17. ⸻⸺- deals with logical and semantic questions like ‘What do
we mean by “freedom” and “determinism”
A. applied ethics
B. normative ethics
C. practical ethics
D. meta ethics
Answer: D. meta ethics
18. Ethics determines rightness or wrongness of⸻⸻-

A. human actions
B. human thought
C. human judgements
D. none of these
Answer: A. human actions
19. When we a say that conduct is right, we mean primarily that;

A. it is according to truth
B. it is according to rule
C. it is according to law
D. none of these
Answer: B. it is according to rule
20. A thing is generally said to be good when it is valuable for

A. some end.
B. some practice
C. some action
D. some facts
Answer: A. some end.
21. Positive science deals with judgments of facts while ethics is

concerned with judgments of:
A. beauty
B. truth
C. thought
D. value
Answer: D. value
22. Logic deals with the correctness of

A. thought
B. conduct
C. perception
D. intuition
Answer: A. thought
23. Ethics deals with the correctness of
A. conduct
B. thought
C. perception
D. intuition
Answer: A. conduct
24. ⸻⸻ is not a normative discipline.

A. ethics
B. logic
C. metaphysics
D. aesthetics
Answer: C. metaphysics
25. Ethics deals with the standards to describe⸻⸻⸺

A. good and evil
B. true and false
C. right and good
D. all of these
Answer: C. right and good
26. Ethics is concerned the ⸻⸻- to judge human conduct

A. standards
B. facts
C. objects
D. all of these
Answer: A. standards
27. Logic, Ethic and Aesthetics- these three sciences are essentially
⸻⸻-
A. positive
B. intuitive
C. cognate
D. none of these
Answer: C. cognate
28. Ethics investigates the nature of its fundamental notions like

right, duty and ⸻
A. beauty
B. good
C. thought
D. none of these
Answer: B. good
29. Ethics considers the ⸻— of goodness.

A. standard
B. fact
C. object
D. all of these
Answer: A. standard
30. Morality consists of goodness, which is really an ⸻—- end

A. effective
B. intrinsic
C. instrumental
D. teleogical
Answer: B. intrinsic
31. ⸻⸺is a collective name for voluntary actions:

A. virtue
B. conduct
C. desire
D. will
Answer: B. conduct
32. ⸻⸻–is a sense of longing for a person or object or hoping

for an outcome.
A. wish
B. instinct
C. tendency
D. desire
Answer: D. desire
33. ‘Human desire is the fundamental motivation of all human action’.
Whose view is this?

A. hobbes
B. mathew arnold
C. mcdougall
D. mackenzie
Answer: A. hobbes
34. Consciousness of ⸻-is called an appetite.

A. a wish
B. a desire
C. a motive
D. an organic need
Answer: D. an organic need
35. Who defines an instinct as an inherited psycho physical

disposition?
A. hobbes
B. mathew arnold
C. mcdougall
D. mackenzie
Answer: C. mcdougall
36. The desires that predominate or continue to be effective is

called:
A. wish
B. will
C. instinct
D. none of these
Answer: A. wish
37. ⸻—- a conscious mental process which moves a man to act in

a particular way.
A. wish
B. will
C. instinct
D. motive
Answer: D. motive
38. The term intention corresponds the term:

A. desire
B. purpose
C. instinct
D. none of these
Answer: B. purpose
39. The whole willed scheme of action, which is anticipated by the

doer is called:
A. desire
B. purpose
C. instinct
D. intention.
Answer: D. intention.
40. According to Mackenzie the formal intention means the

⸻⸻-embodied in fact
A. principle
B. purpose
C. instinct
D. action
Answer: A. principle
41. The particular result as a realised fact is:

A. remote intention
B. formal intention
C. immediate intention
D. material intention
Answer: D. material intention
42. The remote intention of an act is sometimes called:

A. motive
B. purpose
C. instinct
D. action
Answer: A. motive
43. “The motive means, of course, what moves us or causes us to act

in a particular way”. Who asserted this?
A. mcdougall
B. hobbes
C. mackenzie
D. mathew arnold
Answer: C. mackenzie
44. A person’s conduct corresponding to his ⸻⸻—

A. motive
B. habit
C. character
D. action
Answer: C. character
45. Desire is a sense of longing of a person for ⸻⸺-

A. an end
B. a action
C. an outcome
D. none of these
Answer: C. an outcome
46. Hobbes asserted that human desire is the ⸻⸻—– of all
human action.
A. fundamental intention
B. fundamental nature
C. fundamental character
D. fundamental motivation
Answer: D. fundamental motivation
47. An intention which the agent does not definitely avows to himself
is called:
A. remote intention
B. formal intention
C. unconscious intention
D. conscious intention
Answer: C. unconscious intention
48. When a man acts blindly without considering the end or result of
his action. Such actions is called:
A. impulsive action
B. voluntary action
C. organic actions
D. none of these
Answer: A. impulsive action
49. A motive is ⸻⸻– mental process

A. an intuitive
B. a conscious
C. an unconscious
D. an immediate
Answer: B. a conscious
50. Sucking of the thump by a child is a:

A. impulsive action
B. involuntary action
C. habitual action
D. none of these
Answer: C. habitual action
51. McDougall defines an instinct as ⸻⸻—- psycho physical

disposition
A. an inherited
B. an intentional
C. an immediate
D. an effective
Answer: A. an inherited
52. Human beings share some kinds of needs with the lower animals
and even with plants are called:
A. natural needs
B. organic needs
C. immediate needs
D. none of these
Answer: B. organic needs
53. ⸻⸺-is the general term for the theories that regards
happiness
A. intuitionism
B. hedonism
C. emotivism
D. eudemonism
Answer: B. hedonism
54. Hedonism the term derives from the Greek word :

A. hedone
B. hedine
C. hedon
D. hedoine
Answer: A. hedone
55. Hedone means:

A. happy
B. good
C. delight
D. pleasure
Answer: C. delight
56. Hedonism is a school of thought that argues that ⸻—- is the

only intrinsic good.
A. pleasure
B. virtue
C. justice
D. freedom
Answer: A. pleasure
57. According to the nature of seeking pleasure hedonism can be

divided broadly in to Psychological hedonism and ⸻⸻—-
A. physiological hedonism
B. natural hedonism
C. ethical hedonism
D. none of the above
Answer: C. ethical hedonism
58. Men always seeks pleasure-this position is known as:

A. psychological hedonism
B. natural hedonism
C. ethical hedonism
Answer: A. psychological hedonism
59. Man ought to seeks pleasure, the position is known as:

A. ethical hedonism
B. psychological hedonism
C. . natural hedonism
Answer: A. ethical hedonism
60. Each man seeks, or ought to seek, is his own pleasure, this type
of ethical hedonism is called:
A. universal ethical hedonism
B. utilitarianism
C. egoistic ethical hedonism
D. none of these
Answer: C. egoistic ethical hedonism
61. The theory which holds that the right action is the one that
produces the greatest happiness for all is:
A. universal ethical hedonism
B. psychological hedonism
C. egoistic ethical hedonism
D. none of these
Answer: A. universal ethical hedonism
62. The most influential contributor to Universal ethical hedonism is:

A. kant
B. sidgwick
C. butler
D. john stuart mill
Answer: D. john stuart mill
63. Universalistic Ethical Hedonism is also known as:

A. hedonism
B. universalism
C. utilitarianism
D. none of these
Answer: C. utilitarianism
64. Utilitarian school having the slogan:

A. the greatest happiness of the individual
B. the greatest happiness of greatest number
C. the happiness of all
D. the happiness of greatest number
Answer: B. the greatest happiness of greatest number
65. The ⸻⸻— is a method of counting the amount of pleasure

and pain that would likely be caused by different actions.
A. utility calculus
B. universal calculus
C. idealistic calculus
D. hedonistic calculus
Answer: D. hedonistic calculus
66. The Hedonic Calculus is a method of counting the amount of

⸻⸻- that would likely be caused by different actions.
A. pleasure and pain
B. result
C. virtue
D. none of these
Answer: A. pleasure and pain
67. Who introduced the method of hedonic calculus?

A. kant
B. sidgwick
C. bentham
D. john stuart mill
Answer: C. bentham
68. ⸻⸺- refers to the likelihood that the pleasure or pain will
occur
A. certainty
B. purity
C. propinquity
D. intensity
Answer: A. certainty
69. ⸻⸻— refers to how long away the pleasure or pain is.
A. certainty
B. purity
C. propinquity
D. intensity
Answer: C. propinquity
70. ⸻⸻—– refers to the likelihood of the pleasure or pain

leading to more of the same sensation.
A. certainty
B. fecundity
C. propinquity
D. intensity
Answer: B. fecundity
71. ⸻—- refers to the likelihood of the pleasure or pain leading to

some of the opposite sensation.
A. certainty
B. purity
C. propinquity
D. intensity
Answer: B. purity
72. ⸻—– refers to the number of people the pleasure or pain is

likely to affect.
A. certainty
B. purity
C. propinquity
D. extent
Answer: D. extent
73. ⸻⸺– refers to the felt strength of the pleasure or pain.

A. certainty
B. purity
C. propinquity
D. intensity
Answer: D. intensity
74. ⸻—– refers to how long the pleasure or pain are felt for.
A. certainty
B. duration
C. propinquity
D. intensity
Answer: B. duration
75. Hedonic Calculus of Bentham is a ⸻⸻—– calculus.

A. five point
B. eight point
C. nine point
D. seven point
Answer: D. seven point
76. The hedonism which, focuses the quantity of the pleasure, rather
than the quality is called:
A. quantitative hedonism.
B. qualitative hedonism
C. universal hedonism
D. none of these
Answer: A. quantitative hedonism.
77. Bentham’s version of hedonism is known as:

D. none of these
Answer: A. quantitative hedonism.
78. J. S. Mill’s version of hedonism is known as:

D. none of these
Answer: B. qualitative hedonism
79. Mill argues that ⸻⸻– are superior to physical forms of

pleasure.
A. moral pleasures
B. emotional pleasure
C. material pleasure
D. none of these
Answer: A. moral pleasures
80. Mill made ⸻⸺- separation of pleasures.

A. quantitative
B. qualitative
C. psychological
D. none of these
Answer: B. qualitative
81. Mill argued that pleasures could vary in:

A. duration
B. quantity
C. intensity
D. quality
Answer: D. quality
82. According to J.S. Mill Lower pleasures are those associated with
the:
A. body
B. mind
C. soul
D. intellect
Answer: A. body
83. According to J.S. Mill higher pleasures are those associated with
the:
A. body
B. mind
C. soul
D. intellect
Answer: B. mind
84. According to J.S. Mill ⸻—–pleasures are those associated

with the mind
A. higher
B. lower
C. quantitative
D. none of these
Answer: A. higher
85. According to J.S. Mill ⸻⸺- pleasures are those associated
with the body.

A. higher
B. lower
C. quantitative
D. none of these
Answer: B. lower
86. Mill justified ⸻⸻—– pleasures are more valuable than

bodily pleasures.
A. emotional
B. instinctive
C. intellectual
D. none of these
Answer: C. intellectual
87. Mill’s theory of Hedonism focuses on the quality of the pleasure,

rather than the quantity, so it is called:
A. egoistic hedonism
B. ethical hedonism
C. qualitative hedonism.
D. quantitative hedonism
Answer: C. qualitative hedonism.
88. Laws of ⸻— can be violated but cannot be changed

A. nature
B. constitution
C. ethics
D. none of these
Answer: C. ethics
89. The laws of ethics can be violated but cannot be ⸻⸺-

A. changed
B. obliged
C. explained
D. described
Answer: A. changed
90. According to Immanuel Kant the moral law is known ⸻⸺.

A. empirically
B. practically
C. intuitively
D. intellectually
Answer: C. intuitively
91. According to Immanuel Kant moral law is:

A. a priori
B. a posteriori
C. empirical
D. none of these
Answer: A. a priori
92. According to Immanuel Kant moral law is:

A. empirical
B. self evident
C. intellectual
D. none of these
Answer: B. self evident
93. According to Kant the moral law is a:

A. assertorial imperative
B. conditional imperative
C. categorical imperative
D. none of these
Answer: C. categorical imperative
94. According to Kant a natural law is:

A. unconditional
B. categorical
C. assertorial
D. none of these
Answer: C. assertorial
95. Kant argues that Categorical Imperative is the ⸻⸻- it

applies to all persons.
A. universal moral law
B. universal natural law
C. conditional moral law
D. none of these
Answer: A. universal moral law
96. According to Kant ⸻⸺– is the fundamental postulate of

morality.
A. freedom of the will
B. freedom of the judgment
C. freedom of the intellect
D. none of these
Answer: A. freedom of the will
97. ‘Freewill is implied by morality’ Who argues this?

A. sidgwick
B. john stuart mill
C. bentham
D. kant
Answer: D. kant
98. Kant’s ethical doctrine is called:

A. hedonism
B. utilitarianism
C. intuitionalism
D. formalism
Answer: D. formalism
99. Kant’s ethical theory is called:

A. teleology
B. deontology
C. axiology
D. none of these
Answer: B. deontology
100. Kant assumes that ⸻⸻— are the only two motives of
actions.
A. freedom and duty
B. duty and self-interest
C. duty and good will
D. none of these
Answer: B. duty and self-interest
101. According to Kant duty as the fundamental concept of ethics,

this view is called:
A. teleology
B. deontology
C. concequntalism
D. none of these
Answer: B. deontology
102. Self- realisation is the highest good, this notion is known called:
A. perfectionism
B. utilitarianism
C. hedonism
D. none of these
Answer: A. perfectionism
103. The Greek term eudemonia means:

A. perfection
B. goodness
C. happiness
D. virtue
Answer: C. happiness
104. Perfectionism is also called:

A. intuitionism
B. eudemonism
C. formalism
D. hedonism
Answer: B. eudemonism
105. ‘My station and its Duties’ is related with:

A. sidgwick
B. f. h. bradley
C. bentham
D. kant
Answer: B. f. h. bradley
106. ‘Ones duties relate to his own station in life’ Who argues this?
A. sidgwick
B. bentham
C. f. h. bradley
D. kant
Answer: C. f. h. bradley
107. According to F. H. Bradley, performance of duties appropriate to

ones station will leads to :
A. perfection
B. happiness
C. pleasure
D. self- realisation
Answer: D. self- realisation
108. F. H. Bradley argues that each member has a particular station

in society determined by his peculiar
A. talent
B. happiness
C. virtue
D. none of these
Answer: A. talent
109. ‘His duties are determined by his station in society’, Who said
this?
A. sidgwick
B. bentham
C. f. h. bradley
D. kant
Answer: C. f. h. bradley
110. F. H. Bradley asserts that, society is a⸻⸻—-

A. social organism
B. moral organism
C. cultural organism
D. none of these
Answer: B. moral organism
111. According to F. H. Bradley different ⸻⸺– are organs of the

moral organism
A. communities
B. sects
C. individuals
D. none of these
Answer: C. individuals
112. The highest personal good is in harmony with the highest social
good. – Who claims this notion?
A. sidgwick
B. f. h. bradley
C. bentham
D. kant
Answer: B. f. h. bradley
113. F. H. Bradley claims that ⸻⸺ is never possible apart from

society.
A. liberation
B. happiness
C. existence
D. self-realization
Answer: D. self-realization
114. According to F. H. Bradley personal morality apart from social

morality is an ⸻
A. abstraction
B. imperfection
C. intuitional
D. none of these
Answer: A. abstraction
115. Bradley means by self-realization, realization of the:

A. infinite self
B. finite self
C. life
D. none of these
Answer: A. infinite self
116. Bradley argues that morality is :

A. subjective
B. individualistic
C. personal
D. objective
Answer: D. objective
117. The hedonism of Herbert Spencer is called:

A. evolutionary hedonism
C. quantitative hedonism
D. universalistic hedonism
Answer: A. evolutionary hedonism
118. ‘Data of Ethics’ is related with:

A. sidgwick
B. f. h. bradley
C. bentham
D. spencer
Answer: D. spencer
119. Herbert Spencer deduces moral laws from:

A. natural laws
B. biological laws
C. sociological laws
D. none of these
Answer: B. biological laws
120. Who deduces hedonism from the law of biological evolution?

A. sidgwick
B. f. h. bradley
C. spencer
D. kant
Answer: C. spencer
121. Spencer deduces hedonism from the law of:

A. sociological evolution
B. natural evolution
C. biological evolution
D. universal evolution
Answer: C. biological evolution
122. Morality is a product of evolution- Who holds this view?

A. spencer
B. f. h. bradley
C. bentham
D. kant
Answer: A. spencer
123. Spencer defines ⸻⸺- as the adjustment of acts to ends.

A. good will
B. freedom
C. conduct
D. virtue
Answer: C. conduct
124. ‘Pleasure in an index of increase of life; pain is an index of

decrease of life’ Who advocates this view?
A. sidgwick
B. f. h. bradley
C. spencer
D. kant
Answer: C. spencer
125. ‘Pleasure-giving acts are life-sustaining; pain-giving acts are

life-destroying’- Who holds this position?
A. sidgwick
B. f. h. bradley
C. kant
D. herbert spencer
Answer: D. herbert spencer
126. Thus pleasure is both ⸻⸻- and ethically good.

A. biologically
B. naturally
C. empirically
D. none of these
Answer: A. biologically
127. According to Herbert Spencer Self-preservation and race-

preservation are the ultimate ends of ⸻⸻⸺-
A. natural evolution
B. sociological evolution
C. biological evolution
D. political evolution
Answer: C. biological evolution
128. Spencer distinguishes between Absolute ethics and⸻⸻-

A. relative ethics
B. ultimate ethics
C. intuitive ethics
D. none of these
Answer: A. relative ethics
129. Spencer argues that Relative ethics deals with relative morality
in ⸻—–society.
A. a perfect
B. an imperfect
C. good
D. bad
Answer: B. an imperfect
130. Spencer argues that absolute ethics deals with the absolute
morality in ⸻society
A. a perfect
B. an imperfect
C. good
D. bad
Answer: A. a perfect
131. ‘To realise the completely rational universe is to realize the true
self’, Who holds this view?
A. sidgwick
B. f. h. bradley
C. spencer
D. t. h. green
Answer: D. t. h. green
132. T. H. Green holds that there is a ⸻⸻—– in nature.

A. natural principle
B. spiritual principle
C. cosmic principle
D. none of these
Answer: B. spiritual principle
133. ‘Moral progress is the gradual reproduction of divine perfection

in man’- Who holds this view?
A. sidgwick
B. f. h. bradley
C. spencer
D. t. h. green
Answer: D. t. h. green
134. Butler’s ethical position is called as:

A. hedonism
B. perfectionism
C. naturalism
D. intuitionism
Answer: D. intuitionism
135. Bishop Butler regarded ⸻⸺–as the highest principle in

human nature.
A. good will
B. conscience
C. soul
D. freedom
Answer: B. conscience
136. According to Butler Conscience is:

A. conditional
B. flexible
C. categorical
D. none of these
Answer: C. categorical
137. “Man is a law to himself”. Who asserts this?

A. sidgwick
B. f. h. bradley
C. spencer
D. butler
Answer: D. butler
138. Rogers calls Butler’s doctrine as:
A. autonomic intuitionism.
B. autonomic empiricism
C. autonomic positivism
D. autonomic expressionism
Answer: A. autonomic intuitionism.
139. Hennery Sidgwick’s ethical position is known as:

A. intuitional utilitarianism
B. rational utilitarianism
C. qualitative utilitarianism
Answer: B. rational utilitarianism
140. Sidgwick holds that ⸻⸺is the only intrinsic value.

A. pleasure
B. virtue
C. good will
D. freedom
Answer: A. pleasure
141. Sidgwick considers knowledge, beauty, and virtue are:

A. ends of pleasure
B. means to pleasure
C. pleasure itself
D. none of these
Answer: B. means to pleasure
142. Rights are ⸻⸻-of individuals recognised by society

A. obligation
B. moral claims
C. moral freedom
D. none of these
Answer: B. moral claims
143. Duties are ⸻⸻– of individuals recognised by society

A. obligations
B. moral claims
C. moral freedom
D. none of these
Answer: A. obligations
144. Right is a:
A. claim
B. need
C. justifiable claim
D. none of these
Answer: C. justifiable claim
145. Duties are :

A. obligations
B. moral claims
C. moral freedom
D. moral obligations
Answer: D. moral obligations
146. ⸻- are indispensible for the realization of the highest good

and common good.
A. duties
B. moral rights
C. virtue
D. desire
Answer: B. moral rights
147. Rights and duties are:

A. contradictory to each other
B. opposed to each other
C. correlative to each other
D. none of these
Answer: C. correlative to each other
148. The first right of man is:

A. the right to live
B. the right to freedom
C. the right to property
D. the right to education
Answer: A. the right to live
149. The sacredness of life should be recognised in:

A. right to live
B. right to freedom
C. right to property
D. right to education
Answer: A. right to live
150. ‘Rights of property are essentially personal’- Who hold this

position?
A. kant
B. mill
C. hegel
D. butler
Answer: C. hegel
151. Right to employment should be recognised by every

⸻⸻—–
A. state
B. developed country
C. welfare state
D. none of these
Answer: C. welfare state
152. The right of contract necessarily arises out of the ⸻⸺–

A. right of live
B. right of freedom
C. right of property
D. right of education
Answer: C. right of property
153. “Thou shall not kill”- the maxim related with:

A. respect for life
B. respect for freedom
C. respect for property
D. respect for truth
Answer: A. respect for life
154. “Be a person and respect others as persons”- assertion is

related with:
A. kant
B. j.s. mill
C. hegel
D. butler
Answer: C. hegel
155. We should keep our promises and fulfil our contracts- related
with:
A. respect for life
D. respect for truth
Answer: D. respect for truth
156. We should maintain the social system to which we belong. We

should not revolt against the State and produce chaos.- related with:
A. respect for life
D. respect for society
Answer: D. respect for society
157. We should cultivate fellow feelings- Related with:

A. respect for world harmony
B. respect for life
C. respect for freedom
D. respect for property
Answer: A. respect for world harmony
158. ‘vir’ means:

A. perfect
B. good
C. man or hero
D. leader or saint
Answer: B. good
159. Duties of imperfect obligation are called:

A. virtues
B. good
C. vice
D. none of these
Answer: A. virtues
160. Duties are turned into virtues by ⸻-.

A. habit
B. culture
C. practice
D. none of these
Answer: A. habit
161. Virtue denotes a ⸻⸻–

A. character
B. morals
C. good character
D. goodness
Answer: C. good character
162. ⸻⸺is the excellence of character

A. morality
B. goodness
C. virtue
D. none of these
Answer: C. virtue
163. Virtue is the habit of deliberate choice of:

A. right actions
B. morality
C. actions
D. moral principles
Answer: A. right actions
164. ⸻⸺ is the habit of deliberate choice of wrong actions

A. morality
B. goodness
C. virtue
D. vice
Answer: D. vice
165. ⸻– is expressed in the commission of sins

A. virtue
B. vice
C. goodness
D. merit
Answer: B. vice
166. ‘Virtue is a permanent state of mind’ Who holds this position?

A. kant
B. j.s. mill
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: D. aristotle
167. “virtue is knowledge”- related with:

A. kant
B. j.s. mill
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: C. socrates
168. Cardinal virtues – related with:

A. plato
B. j.s. mill
C. socrates
D. aristotle
Answer: A. plato
169. Which of the following is not a Cardinal virtue?

A. wisdom
B. courage
C. temperance
D. goodness
Answer: D. goodness
170. ⸻⸻–comprehends all cardinal virtues.

A. wisdom
B. courage
C. temperance
D. justice
Answer: D. justice
171. According to Plato Wisdom is the special virtue of the ⸻⸺-

A. ruling class
B. fighting class
C. traders
D. common class
Answer: A. ruling class
172. According to Plato courage is the special virtue of the ⸻⸺-

A. ruling class
B. fighting class
C. traders
D. common class
Answer: B. fighting class
173. According to Plato ⸻—- is the special virtue of the traders

A. temperance
B. wisdom
C. courage
D. justice
Answer: A. temperance
174. “Virtue is the habit of choosing the relative mean” Who holds
this view?
A. kant
B. j.s. mill
C. socrates
D. aristotle
175. Who made the distinction between intellectual virtue and moral
virtue?
A. kant
B. j.s. mill
C. socrates
D. aristotle
176. According to Aristotle the ⸻—– belongs to the rational soul

A. intellectual virtue
B. moral virtue
C. virtue
D. none of these
Answer: A. intellectual virtue
177. Aristotle divides justice into two; one is distributive justice and
the other is:
A. corrective justice
B. corrective justice
C. supreme justice
D. none of these
Answer: A. corrective justice
178. The aim of ⸻—- theory of punishment is to prevent or deter

others from committing similar offences.
A. reformative
B. retributive
C. deterrent
D. none of these
Answer: C. deterrent
179. ⸻— theory justifies capital punishment

A. reformative
B. reflective
C. deterrent
D. none of these
Answer: D. none of these
180. The aim of punishment is to educate the offender himself- this

theory of punishment is called:
A. reformative
B. retributive
C. deterrent
D. none of these
Answer: A. reformative
181. The punishment theory which is supported by criminology is:

A. retributive
B. reformative
C. deterrent
D. none of these
Answer: B. reformative
182. The theory which not justify capital punishment is:

A. reformative
B. retributive
C. deterrent
D. none of these
Answer: A. reformative
183. ‘Eye for an eye’,- ‘tooth for a tooth’,- is the motto of :

A. retributive theory
B. reformative theory
C. deterrent theory
D. none of these
Answer: A. retributive theory
184. The right which justify the Capital punishment is:

A. right to freedom
B. right to property
C. right to live
D. right to contract
Answer: C. right to live
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2. The word “ethics” is derived from the Greek word :

4. The word mores means:

5. The term Right is derived from the Latin

7. The term Good is connected with the German term:

9. Normative science deals with:

10. Aesthetics deals with the standard of:

11. Ethics deals with the standard of:

12. Logic deals with the norm of:

13. Positive science concerned with:

C. neither right nor wrong

15. Truth, Beauty, and ⸻—-are considered as the principles of

16. The applied dimension of Ethics is known as:

Answer: A. applied ethics

Answer: D. meta ethics

18. Ethics determines rightness or wrongness of⸻⸻-

Answer: A. human actions

19. When we a say that conduct is right, we mean primarily that;

Answer: B. it is according to rule

20. A thing is generally said to be good when it is valuable for

Answer: A. some end.

21. Positive science deals with judgments of facts while ethics is

22. Logic deals with the correctness of

23. Ethics deals with the correctness of

24. ⸻⸻ is not a normative discipline.

25. Ethics deals with the standards to describe⸻⸻⸺

B. true and false

C. right and good

Answer: C. right and good

26. Ethics is concerned the ⸻⸻- to judge human conduct

28. Ethics investigates the nature of its fundamental notions like

29. Ethics considers the ⸻— of goodness.

30. Morality consists of goodness, which is really an ⸻—- end

31. ⸻⸺is a collective name for voluntary actions:

32. ⸻⸻–is a sense of longing for a person or object or hoping

33. ‘Human desire is the fundamental motivation of all human action’.

Whose view is this?

34. Consciousness of ⸻-is called an appetite.

Answer: D. an organic need

35. Who defines an instinct as an inherited psycho physical

36. The desires that predominate or continue to be effective is

37. ⸻—- a conscious mental process which moves a man to act in

38. The term intention corresponds the term:

39. The whole willed scheme of action, which is anticipated by the

40. According to Mackenzie the formal intention means the

41. The particular result as a realised fact is:

Answer: D. material intention

42. The remote intention of an act is sometimes called:

43. “The motive means, of course, what moves us or causes us to act

44. A person’s conduct corresponding to his ⸻⸻—

45. Desire is a sense of longing of a person for ⸻⸺-

46. Hobbes asserted that human desire is the ⸻⸻—– of all

Answer: D. fundamental motivation

Answer: C. unconscious intention

Answer: A. impulsive action

49. A motive is ⸻⸻– mental process

50. Sucking of the thump by a child is a:

Answer: C. habitual action

51. McDougall defines an instinct as ⸻⸻—- psycho physical

Answer: B. organic needs

54. Hedonism the term derives from the Greek word :

55. Hedone means: