Ethics in America DSST Exam Actual Exam
Questions with Correct Detailed Verified
Answers Latest Update 2025
Legal Pluralism --- correct answer ---Is the existence of multiple legal
systems within one (human) population and/or geographic area.
Moral pluralism --- correct answer ---Is the assumption there are moral
truths, but that they do not form a body of coherent and consistent truths as
those found in the sciences or mathematic approach.
Through the virtue of an implied contract. This is common sense morality. --
- correct answer ---Why should parents take care of their kids?
The state will intervene & the child no longer owes the parent a duty of
obedience. --- correct answer ---What happens if the parent doesn't act in
the best interests of the child?
That are close to us --- correct answer ---We have a duty of special concern
to those...?
,Best interest principle --- correct answer ---When educators, judges, and
doctors deal with children, they should follow this...
Beneficence, Non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy --- correct answer ---
According to the medical profession, what are the 4 main guiding ethical
principles derived from common morality?
Informed consent --- correct answer ---Doctors have to inform patients of
medical risks/benefits who then make an informed decision which signifies
their..?
Health professionals --- correct answer ---Owe their patients a duty of
care..?
Issues business ethics describe --- correct answer ---Corporate governance,
accurate accounting and audits, fair labor practices and environmental
management.
Fair labor practices --- correct answer ---Are essential to ensure that
workers are provided with a safe and humane working environment and
compensated with a fair wage.
Beneficience --- correct answer ---The duty to help others in need.
, Non-maleficience --- correct answer ---The duty to not harm others. This
includes acts committed or omitted. One example would be if a doctor forgot
to give a patient the correct care.
That they are self-evident. He called them prima facie duties. --- correct
answer ---What did WD Ross believe about certain basic moral principles?
Problem with prima facie duties --- correct answer ---They may not be self-
evident to those who are intellectually immature or those who haven't
thought about it enough.
Double-effect principle --- correct answer ---From Thomas Aquinas, and is
used to describe situations where harm is induced to cause good. It is
controversial, especially among utilitarians.
We should help others in danger --- correct answer ---If there is little risk
and even if it is not in our self-interest.
Joel Feinberg --- correct answer ---He wrote The Moral Limits of the
Criminal Law, which used 4 principles to determine legitimacy of
government intervention in individual freedom.
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law --- correct answer ---1. The Harm
Principle (originally from John Stuart Mill)
Questions with Correct Detailed Verified
Answers Latest Update 2025
Legal Pluralism --- correct answer ---Is the existence of multiple legal
systems within one (human) population and/or geographic area.
Moral pluralism --- correct answer ---Is the assumption there are moral
truths, but that they do not form a body of coherent and consistent truths as
those found in the sciences or mathematic approach.
Through the virtue of an implied contract. This is common sense morality. --
- correct answer ---Why should parents take care of their kids?
The state will intervene & the child no longer owes the parent a duty of
obedience. --- correct answer ---What happens if the parent doesn't act in
the best interests of the child?
That are close to us --- correct answer ---We have a duty of special concern
to those...?
,Best interest principle --- correct answer ---When educators, judges, and
doctors deal with children, they should follow this...
Beneficence, Non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy --- correct answer ---
According to the medical profession, what are the 4 main guiding ethical
principles derived from common morality?
Informed consent --- correct answer ---Doctors have to inform patients of
medical risks/benefits who then make an informed decision which signifies
their..?
Health professionals --- correct answer ---Owe their patients a duty of
care..?
Issues business ethics describe --- correct answer ---Corporate governance,
accurate accounting and audits, fair labor practices and environmental
management.
Fair labor practices --- correct answer ---Are essential to ensure that
workers are provided with a safe and humane working environment and
compensated with a fair wage.
Beneficience --- correct answer ---The duty to help others in need.
, Non-maleficience --- correct answer ---The duty to not harm others. This
includes acts committed or omitted. One example would be if a doctor forgot
to give a patient the correct care.
That they are self-evident. He called them prima facie duties. --- correct
answer ---What did WD Ross believe about certain basic moral principles?
Problem with prima facie duties --- correct answer ---They may not be self-
evident to those who are intellectually immature or those who haven't
thought about it enough.
Double-effect principle --- correct answer ---From Thomas Aquinas, and is
used to describe situations where harm is induced to cause good. It is
controversial, especially among utilitarians.
We should help others in danger --- correct answer ---If there is little risk
and even if it is not in our self-interest.
Joel Feinberg --- correct answer ---He wrote The Moral Limits of the
Criminal Law, which used 4 principles to determine legitimacy of
government intervention in individual freedom.
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law --- correct answer ---1. The Harm
Principle (originally from John Stuart Mill)
