Welcome to your Grade 8 Citizenship Education chapter 1
After carefully reading the following 30 questions, choose the correct answer.
1.
Which branch of ethics emphasizes the role of an individual’s character in determining the rightness of an action?
2.
What is the term for citizen dispositions or habits that are beneficial to the healthy functioning of a community?
3.
According to virtue ethics, how are moral virtues acquired?
4.
What is the polar opposite of a virtue, often associated with bad habits or personal corruption?
5.
Which of the following is an example of a vice?
6.
What is the first step in the five-step process of ethical decision making?
7.
In the context of ethical decision making, what is the purpose of identifying stakeholders?
8.
Which virtue is defined as the practice of not telling or accepting lies and being truthful in actions?
9.
What quality is described as the ability to make sound decisions to avoid danger or risk?
10.
Which virtue refers to the moral disposition to expend time, effort, and resources for the benefit of others?
11.
What is the definition of courage according to the glossary?
12.
Which virtue is the ability to put oneself in another’s shoes and understand what they are going through?
13.
Fairness is frequently defined as a method of evaluating people that is free of what?
14.
What does self-discipline involve?
15.
Which category of virtue refers to a reasoned commitment that all citizens are expected to fulfill?
16.
Why is paying fair taxes considered a civic virtue?
17.
What term describes the attempt to take commodities out of a country without paying required taxes?
18.
How does staying informed contribute to civic virtue?
19.
According to the text, a virtuous person is one who has no what?
20.
Ethics is the study of what ends to pursue in life?
21.
In virtue ethics, what is the emphasis placed on rather than following rules?
22.
A prudent person is someone who takes the time to do what before making a decision?
23.
What is the main benefit of virtue ethics mentioned in the unit summary?
24.
Which ancient Greek thinker is primarily associated with the development of virtue ethics?
25.
What is the result of a community composed of people of good character?
26.
In the five steps of ethical decision making, what do you do during "Evaluate each solution"?
27.
Prudence is also known as what type of wisdom?
28.
Which disposition allows a person to live in accordance with their values?
29.
What involves exercising caution and pausing to reflect before acting?
30.
Virtue ethicists value being honest and generous over what?
