University of Dayton

PHL 313

CHAPTER 3

Multiple-Choice Questions

1)According to Robert Solomon, planning for the good life begins with:

1. 1. Planning for your career
   2. Good luck
   3. Planning to get married
   4. Asking yourself questions about your needs and ideals
   5. Having friends

2. Aristotle’s ethics primarily examines what is good in terms of:
   1. Depression
   2. Happiness
   3. Rules and logic
   4. The human spirit
   5. Duty

3. Ciulla mentions four values that guide our choices about work. Which of these is NOT one of them?
   1. Meaningful, important, interesting work
   2. Leisure time
   3. Money
   4. Prestige
   5. Security

4. In Ciulla’s article about work and life, she defines an instrumental activity as one that is:
   1. Done in leisure time, not for pay
   2. Important for one’s happiness in life
   3. Chosen after careful thought
   4. Pleasurable for its own sake
   5. A means to an end

5. An “epicurean” is someone who lives for:
   1. Pain
   2. Happiness
   3. Pleasure
   4. Masochism
   5. Others

6. Epicurus argues that pleasure is:
   1. Sensuality
   2. Drinking and reveling
   3. Sober reasoning
   4. The satisfaction of lusts

1. 5. Leisure

7. Carnegie thinks that it is essential that the basic laws of the market:
   1. Be regulated
   2. Be controlled in the interest of the many
   3. Be regulated by government
   4. Be studied and analyzed
   5. Be left free

8. Carnegie argues that most dollars spent in charity in his own day are:
   1. Ill-gotten
   2. Wasted
   3. Wisely invested
   4. Redistributed
   5. Given out of guilt

9. Schimmel argues that greed is a cause of much:
   1. Happiness
   2. Success
   3. Well-being
   4. Self-deception
   5. Unhappiness

10. Greed is also known as:
    1. Avarice
    2. Penury
    3. Frugality
    4. Caritas
    5. Hedonism

11. Ciulla compares the experience of teens who work to pay for college or to help support their families to the experience of teens who work to buy luxury items. She concludes:
    1. Working for a lasting, meaningful goal may be more satisfying.
    2. Working to buy things for yourself may be more satisfying.
    3. The reason for working is not as important as the kind of work chosen.
    4. The work experience is different for students, who can quit when the summer is over.
    5. Teens who work more hours spend less time drinking.

12. Bertrand Russell here insists that the wise use of the products of civilization and education is the wise use of:
    1. Leisure
    2. Money
    3. Work
    4. Learning
    5. Natural resources

13. McFall argues that integrity is a personal virtue with implications that are:
    1. Financial
    2. Selfish
    3. Physical
    4. Social
    5. Irrelevant

14. The commitments that, for McFall, reflect what we take to be most important in life are commitments about:
    1. Truth
    2. Morality
    3. Knowledge
    4. Identity
    5. Honesty

15. Impersonal interests are
    1. Exciting, because you invest your whole life in them
    2. Irritating, because your conscious mind is never allowed to relax
    3. Exhausting, because you have to make quick decisions
    4. Relaxing, because you don’t have to make decisions or take action
    5. Inspiring, because they make you work harder

True/False Questions

1. Business ethics is not really concerned with “doing the right thing.”

2. Eudoxus argues that pleasure is at the heart of the good.

3. Choices about work may require a trade-off between meaningful work, leisure time, money, and security.

4. Epicurus maintains that pleasure is the point of all good activities.

5. Carnegie argues that “the problem of rich and poor” can be solved through taxation and regulation.

6. Solomon Schimmel argues that “greed is good.”

7. Bertrand Russell argues that idleness is a vice.

8. We can understand work as a trade people make of leisure for consumption.

9. Integrity, for McFall, includes making the virtues “cohere.”