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Choose the best answer for each of the following questions. 1) The view that phy

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Question

Choose the best answer for each of the following questions.

1) The view that physicians should always tell the truth to their patients as to do otherwise would be to fail to respect their autonomy would be best justified by

a) utilitarianism.

b) Ross’s view of prima facie duties.

c) Rawls’s moral view.

d) Kantian ethics.

2) According to Kant, happiness is

a) the supreme principle of morality.

b) not a good at all.

c) a conditional good.

d) a categorical imperative.

3) According to Kant, if I donate a kidney because I wish to be praised for my generosity, my action can be described in which of the following ways?

a) My action has no inner moral worth.

b) My action is in accordance with duty.

c) My action is not performed from duty.

d) All of these choices

4) What, according to utilitarianism, is intrinsically valuable?

a) Happiness

b) Acting from duty

c) Acting in accordance with duty

d) Autonomy


5) According to Kant, what sort of duty does a physician have to accept someone as a patient?

a) A perfect duty

b) A rational duty

c) A duty of beneficence

d) An imperfect duty

Explanation / Answer

1.The view that physicians should always tell the truth to their patients as to do otherwise would be to fail to respect their autonomy would be best justified by?

ans: KANTIAN ETHICS

2.According to Kant, happiness is

ans: THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE OF MORALITY

3.According to Kant, if I donate a kidney because I wish to be praised for my generosity, my action can be described in which of the following ways?

ans: ALL THE ABOVE.

4.What, according to utilitarianism, is intrinsically valuable?

ans: HAPPINESS

5.According to Kant, what sort of duty does a physician have to accept someone as a patient?

ans:A PERFECT DUTY.