NAME: DATE:

PROFESSOR: COURSE & YEAR:

I. True or False. Write T if the statement is true; F if false.

_______ 1. Humans have not only feelings but also reason, and reason plays a vital role in Ethics.

_______ 2. Morality commends what it commends, regardless of our feelings, attitudes, opinions, and
desires

_______ 3. The principle of impartiality assumes that every person, generally speaking, is equally
important; that is, no one is seen as intrinsically more significant than anyone else.

_______ 4. When two opposing alternatives are offered the consequences of one are the mirror image
of the other.

_______ 5. It must be realized that one common element to moral impartiality is that there are no easy
and painless solutions to them.

_______ 6. A moral judgment is true if it is espoused by better reasons than the alternatives.

_______ 7. At least in Philosophy, reason is the basis or motive for an action, decision, or conviction.

_______ 8. The rightful moral decision involves selecting the option that has the power of reason on its
side.

_______ 9. Reason is a principle of justice holding that decisions ought to be based on objective criteria,
rather than on the basis of bias, prejudice, or preferring the benefit to one person over
another for improper reasons.

_______ 10. Reason spells the difference of moral judgments from mere expressions of personal
preference.
II. Matching Type (based on the 7-step Moral Reasoning). Match column A with column B.

_____ 1. Identify the principles that have a a. The indispensable first step prior to any ethical
bearing on the case analysis and reflection on the case

_____ 2. Determine the ethical issues b. The step where both positive and negative
consequences are to be considered

_____ 3. Gather these facts c. The step when one decides whether some
principles are to be weighed more heavily than
others

_____ 4. List the Alternatives d. This involves eliminating alternatives according to

the moral principles that have a bearing on the
case

_____ 5. Make a Decision e. Moral issues should be correctly stated in terms of

competing interests

_____ 6. Asses/Weight the Consequence f. This part of the model is done after deliberation

_____ 7. Compare Alternatives with g. This involves coming up with various alternatives
Principles courses of action as part of the creative thinking