Ethics and the Future of Business 6314M0507Y
2022
General Exam Practice Questions
, Session 1
1. What is morality, ethics and an ethical theory?
Answer: See definitions on slide 12.
2. What is the difference between ethics and the law?
Answer: See description on slide 14.
3. Which dimensions of the Moral Machine experience more agreement?
Answer: See Awad et al. 2018 and slide 18; There is variance in agreement across different dimensions,
but sparing humans instead of pets, sparing more characters instead of fewer, and sparing the young
instead of the old tend to receive more agreement.
4. Which cultural differences come through in the Moral Machine when comparing Western, Eastern and
Southern cultures?
Answer: Examine Awad et al. 2018 and slide 19 to identify key differences.
5. What are the core normative theories in Modernist Western thinking? What are the core ideas of each?
Answer: We examined ethical egoism, utilitarianism, ethics of duties, and rights and justice perspectives.
See basic elements in Crane et al. 2019 and slides 21 to 34.
6. What are alternative theories to Modernist Western normative theories described above?
Answer: Crane et al. 2019 list virtue ethics, feminist ethics, discourse ethics and postmodern ethics; See
slide 35 and Crane et al. 2019 for descriptions of key elements.
7. What kind of practices can we implement to create more value in a utilitarian sense?
Answer: See Bazerman 2020 and slide 37.
8. What is the difference between ethical absolutism, relativism and pluralism?
Answer: See Crane et al. 2019 and slide 40.
2022
General Exam Practice Questions
, Session 1
1. What is morality, ethics and an ethical theory?
Answer: See definitions on slide 12.
2. What is the difference between ethics and the law?
Answer: See description on slide 14.
3. Which dimensions of the Moral Machine experience more agreement?
Answer: See Awad et al. 2018 and slide 18; There is variance in agreement across different dimensions,
but sparing humans instead of pets, sparing more characters instead of fewer, and sparing the young
instead of the old tend to receive more agreement.
4. Which cultural differences come through in the Moral Machine when comparing Western, Eastern and
Southern cultures?
Answer: Examine Awad et al. 2018 and slide 19 to identify key differences.
5. What are the core normative theories in Modernist Western thinking? What are the core ideas of each?
Answer: We examined ethical egoism, utilitarianism, ethics of duties, and rights and justice perspectives.
See basic elements in Crane et al. 2019 and slides 21 to 34.
6. What are alternative theories to Modernist Western normative theories described above?
Answer: Crane et al. 2019 list virtue ethics, feminist ethics, discourse ethics and postmodern ethics; See
slide 35 and Crane et al. 2019 for descriptions of key elements.
7. What kind of practices can we implement to create more value in a utilitarian sense?
Answer: See Bazerman 2020 and slide 37.
8. What is the difference between ethical absolutism, relativism and pluralism?
Answer: See Crane et al. 2019 and slide 40.
