ETHICS-MODULE-1 Answers
ETHICS-MODULE-1 Answers
Evaluation: EXERCISE 1
FALSE 2. Ethics and Morality does not have any distinction whatsoever.
TRUE 3. General Ethics presents truth about human acts and from these truths deduces the
general principles of morality. .
FALSE 4. Ethics is a practical science that deals purely with theories and principles.
TRUE 5. Normative analysis examines the standard for the rightness or wrongness of actions.
TRUE 6. Legalistic Ethics determines right from wrong, based on a body of clearly state and
well-documented body of laws
FALSE 8. Non-consequential ethics maintains that the morality of an action is determined solely
by its consequences.
TRUE 9. Ethics and Morality have practically the same literal origin or etymology, which
refers to “custom.”
Human Act or Act of Man. Write your answer before the number.
TRUE 2. Actual Voluntariness is present in a human act willed here and now.
FALSE 3. Perfect Voluntariness is present in the human act when the agent does not fully know
and fully intends the act.
TRUE 4. In Principle of Double Effect, the good effect must outweigh in importance the evil
result
FALSE 6. Imperfect Voluntariness is present when there is no defect in the agent’s knowledge,
intention or both
FALSE 10. Conditional Voluntariness is present in a human act performed, whether the agent
likes or dislikes doing it
MODULE 2.2
MODIFIERS OF HUMAN ACTS
Choose only three among modifiers of human acts (Ignorance, Concupiscence, Fear,
Violence, Habit) and provide an example or situation for each chosen modifier.
Examples: Concupiscence = the ambivalent feeling upon seeing for the first time the person
whom I truly admire the most.
Ignorance = driving along the road without knowing that such road has a local
ordinance enforcing the “one way” rule or “no U-turn spot in this specific area”
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