"Established Laws Are Generally Considered Minimum Standards for Ethics

question 46

Multiple Choice

"Established laws are generally considered minimum standards for ethics." Which of the following standards is based on the preceding statement?

• A) the legal test
• B) the utilitarian principle
• C) Kant's categorical imperative
• D) the golden rule
• E) the four-way test

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Definitions:

Sexual Ambivalence

A state of mixed or conflicting feelings about sexual matters or sexual orientation.

Matrilineal Societies

Societies in which descent and inheritance are traced through the mother's lineage rather than the father's.

Three-Component Attitude Model

An attitude consists of cognitive, affective, and behavioural components. This threefold division has an ancient heritage, stressing thought, feeling, and action as basic to human experience.

Conative

Related to volition, it involves aspects of mental life associated with desire, volition, and striving, including the act of volitional intention to perform actions.