The quiz below has questions on Kantian ethics and engineering ethics. Every line of work has a code of ethics that people are expected to follow, and the quiz below is perfect to see how the knowledge you are when it comes to what is right or wrong. Do give it a try and see how engineering ethics are similar to the Kantian one. All the best this year!
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Kantianism cannot account for the aspirational aspect of common morality, which advocates promoting well-being and the benefit of others
Utilitarianism cannot account for the importance that happiness and well-being plays in common morality, because of it's focus on consequences
Kantianism cannot account for the importance of equal treatment in common morality, because of its emphasis on duty
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The responsibilities of duty are inscribed on all rational beings, by nature of their rationality
Duties are established at a communal level, allowing for variation across cultures
Duties are primarily derived from lessons learned in experience
None of the above
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The former is gained independent of experience, while the latter is dependent on experience
The former involves the mathematical data, while the content of the latter is moral
The former is made as a prediction, while the latter is made after the fact
The former cannot be verified, while the latter is easily verifiable
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The features selected should describe the negative paradigm and not the positive paradigm
The features selected should describe the test case as closely as possible
The features selected should help to determine whether the test case resembles the positive or negative paradigm more closely
The features selected should be irrelevant to the paradigms
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A decision that may affect the health, safety or well-being of others
A decision that may only be taken by licensed engineers
A decision that may affect the health, safety or well-being of others, or involves technical matters that require engineering expertise
A decision for which engineers can be held responsible according to the NSPE code even if the actual decision was taken by the engineer's manager
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Microscopic vision
Normalizing deviance
Self-interest
Moral apathy
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A building collapse in San Antonio that was the result of the use of deficient materials
An explosion at a school that was caused by a gas leak killing nearly 300
A drilling rig explosion that occurred off the coast of Texas and threatened the lives of members of the public
A methane explosion that occurred in a coal mine and killed 169 workers
Utilitarianism is a form of relativism, so the permissibility of lying will depend on the ethics of the communicty
If the consequences of a lie are on the whole better than those of telling the truth, then lying is the right course of action
It is morally permissible to lie in order to save others from harm, but never for one's own benefit
Lying is immoral, and immoral acts produce bad consequences, so one should always tell the truth
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Commercial air travel
Nuclear power
The rise of the internet
Climate change
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They often hold a weak conception of professionalism
They have a good reason for their failure to act ethically
They always have a long record of moral irresponsibility
They are never aware of professional codes of conduct
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A risk is an unwanted event that occurs with a known probability, whereas an uncertain event occurs with a probability that is unknown or undefined
There is no difference between risk and uncertainty
A risk is an unwanted event that occurs with a probability of at least 1%; an uncertain event occurs with a probability of less than 1%
An uncertain event occurs with a known probability, whereas a risk occurs with a probability that is unknown or undefined.
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We become so accustomed to deviant behavior in a technological system that we decide to implement new rules that makes this behavior normal
We become so accustomed to deviant behavior in a technological system that we no longer consider it deviant, despite the fact that we have exceeded the applicable safety rules
We become so accustomed to deviant behavior in a technological system that we no longer consider it as deviant, and therefore revise the applicable safety rules to reflect the new practice
None of the above
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Consequentialists seek to maximize equality, whereas utilitarians seek to maximize the sum total of happiness
Consequentialism and utilitarianism are two different names of the same ethical theory
Consequentialism is a family of ethical theories that evaluate our actions solely according to their consequences. Utilitarianism is one of several examples of consequentialist theories
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Preventive and supererogatory
Preventive and obligatory
Prohibitive and permissible
Prohibitive and obligatory
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A factual issue
A conceptual issue
An application issue
A moral issue
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Cultural nihilism
Ethical subjectivism
Cultural relativism
Cultural realism
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Rule utilitarians believe it is impossible to judge acts on an individual basis
Act utilitarians believe the features of an act relevant to moral analysis are nothing other than the consequences of that particular act alone
Act utilitarians believe it is too difficult to develop rules that will satisfy everyone
Act utilitarians do not believe following rules can lead to good consequences
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No such investigations were made because of political concerns
NASA had an established program through which engineers and other employees could register dissent to policies with which they disagree
The culture was one in which the organization could be considered at least part of the "cause" of the accident
It was one in which a "culture of dissent" was firmly established
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The NSPE code of ethics is perhaps more emphatic than the TBPE rules in describing this responsibility as "paramount"
The TBPE rules do not mention public health, only public safety
The NSPE code does not address the engineer's responsibility to the profession
The TBPE rules address the engineer's responsibility to the environment by introducing the terminology of 'sustainable development'
All of the above are true
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By asking whether an individual engineer's utility would be maximized if he or she accepted the bribe
By asking whether utility would be maximized if engineers generally accepted bribes
By asking what the total consequences of that act would be for everyone concerned
By asking whether a rational and impartial person would conclude that utility is maximized for himself if engineers in general accepted bribes
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They were overly deferential to authority
They were not thinking like managers
They should not bear full responsibility for the harm they caused
They knew what they were doing was wrong at the time
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Whether an act is permissible depends on the consequences it brings about
Although focused on wellbeing, utilitarianism does not consider pleasure morally valuable
As a theory, utilitarianism is generally confined to engineering
There is no moral obligation to future generations
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Emotivism
Virtue ethics
Deontology
Moral relativism
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Design of engineered products or projects
Supervision of construction of engineered public works projects
Responsible charge of teams of unlicensed engineers working on engineering projects
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None of the above
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