Complete the mcq:
1 Ethics of the deontological school would drive the commanding officer (CO) to make what decision?
To seek the best welfare for his sailor
To take risks of courage
To calculate the best possible outcome
To ask what virtues he seeks to honor
To do his duty under rules and procedures
2 For the CO to think about what is best for all indicates what kind of decision making?
Ethical egoism
Utilitarian ethics
Care-based ethics
An Aristotelian excess of the virtue
The duty of the situation
3 If the CO's conscience was bothering him while making a decision, reading up on what ethicist would have made him aware of his thinking and deciding?
Ayn Rand
St. Anselm
St. Thomas Aquinas
John Locke
John Stuart Mill
4 What virtue is not shown if the CO shows unwillingness to contact the carrier air group commander about the welfare of his sailor because of fear?
Procrastination
Selfishness
The virtue of courage
Wisdom
Moderation
5 If the CO follows a principle that relates to the first formulation of the categorical imperative, what is the proper term of Kant's that should be used?
Precept
Decision
Criterion
Determination
Maxim
6 When the CO wants to avoid doing "stupid things," what theory of ethics is he displaying?
Plato's doctrine of civil responsibility
Aristotle's doctrine of the mean
Hobbes' state of nature
Augustine's notion of sin
Locke's idea of social contract
7 The CO's concern to maximize the best outcomes for ship and crew applies which school of ethics?
Care-based school
Virtue-based school
Ends-based school
Avoidance of extremes position
Rules-based school
8 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?
Deficiency of courage
Kant's categorical imperative, second formulation
Aquinas' concept of natural law ethics
Ayn Rand's objectivism
James' logical positivism
9 For the CO to consider what the crew as a whole would want for handling the situation involves what kind of ethics?
Sphere of influence
Utilitarian ethics
Majority thinking
The principle of equity
Care-based ethics
10 If the CO were to take a care-based approach to this emergency situation, what would he do?
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.