Bioethics Unit 1 and 2 Test Study Guide
True or False: The discipline of bioethics is the study of the biological sciences and how
biology provides answers to our ultimate questions about the meaning of life. - answer
False
True or False: The discipline of bioethics includes environmental or ecological ethics
and the study of the good stewardship of Earth, of agriculture and in fact, of the whole
biosphere of living things. - answer True
True or False: Ethics is the study of the good to do, in particular what good we should
do to become angelic immortals, thus earning our place in Heaven. - answer False
True or False: Every time we choose the true good to do we become freer, and we
move toward perfection, becoming more fully human and preparing for our ultimate end
in perfect happiness. - answer True
True or False: The real motivation for our choices and actions is to do what we think will
make us popular because what is popular is always good and what is good is always
popular. - answer False
True or False: Bioethics helps us to judge if a certain biomedical technology can be
used ethically. - answerTrue
True or False: The standard for our ethical decisions should be the dignity of the human
person. - answerTrue
True or False: One question that we should ask ourselves when judging a technology is:
will the act of using the technology respect or disrespect the human person? -
answerTrue
True or False: One question that we should ask ourselves when judging a technology is:
will the act of using the technology do justice or injustice to the human person? -
answerTrue
True or False: The matter, tools, or technology that were used in a biomedical act are
the intention of the act not the means, object, or behavior chosen to do the act. -
answerFalse
True or False: The end (object, means, behavior chosen, technology) intended of a
medical act is the action of using the biomedical technology. - answerFalse
, True or False: Bioethics is a particular aspect of the science of ethics which guides our
judgment concerning the morality of human acts in the use of biomedical technologies. -
answerTrue
True or False: In moral theology we judge a biomedical act relative to our supernatural
end (perfect happiness in God), but in ethics we judge such acts relative to our natural
end (temporal happiness that should be ordered to ultimate happiness). - answerTrue
True or False: In this course we will use faith more than reason and religion more than
science. - answerFalse
True or False: In ethics, when we judge an action, our resources include reason (natural
moral law, conscience, act of the intellect), contemporary and historical experience
(memories, teachings). - answerTrue
Why do we know that human persons are acting in accord with personal loving
communion with other human persons? - answerhuman persons are designed to freely
choose to love
Why must we realize that a genetically distinct member of the human species, a unique
individual human being, is a human person? - answerTo do otherwise would be
arbitrary, unreasonable and unscientific
Mr. Obama's advisors for bioethical issues rejected natural law theory and suggested
that a consensus, which could change with time, should be used to judge the morality of
bioethical issues. Why is it unreasonable to vote on the morality of a bioethical issue as
if truth evolves or why must we respect the natural moral law when judging the morality
of a bioethical issue? - answerTruth (true good) is objective, unchanging, not subjective.
Natural moral law is the objective standard of the true good for a well-formed
conscience. (His advisors might be suffering from malformed consciences or malicious
wills)
True or False: When someone obeys the natural moral law in the judgment of an action
while considering personal experience and the teaching of others, he is using his
conscience, an act of his intellect. - answerTrue
True or False: We can use reason alone to reach the following conclusions or
judgments: God exists, human souls are immaterial and immortal and knowledge is
immaterial. - answerTrue
True or False: An act is truly good, natural and in accord with our human nature, which
thrives on objective truth, when it conforms to and is informed by right reason
(prudence). - answerTrue
True or False: The discipline of bioethics is the study of the biological sciences and how
biology provides answers to our ultimate questions about the meaning of life. - answer
False
True or False: The discipline of bioethics includes environmental or ecological ethics
and the study of the good stewardship of Earth, of agriculture and in fact, of the whole
biosphere of living things. - answer True
True or False: Ethics is the study of the good to do, in particular what good we should
do to become angelic immortals, thus earning our place in Heaven. - answer False
True or False: Every time we choose the true good to do we become freer, and we
move toward perfection, becoming more fully human and preparing for our ultimate end
in perfect happiness. - answer True
True or False: The real motivation for our choices and actions is to do what we think will
make us popular because what is popular is always good and what is good is always
popular. - answer False
True or False: Bioethics helps us to judge if a certain biomedical technology can be
used ethically. - answerTrue
True or False: The standard for our ethical decisions should be the dignity of the human
person. - answerTrue
True or False: One question that we should ask ourselves when judging a technology is:
will the act of using the technology respect or disrespect the human person? -
answerTrue
True or False: One question that we should ask ourselves when judging a technology is:
will the act of using the technology do justice or injustice to the human person? -
answerTrue
True or False: The matter, tools, or technology that were used in a biomedical act are
the intention of the act not the means, object, or behavior chosen to do the act. -
answerFalse
True or False: The end (object, means, behavior chosen, technology) intended of a
medical act is the action of using the biomedical technology. - answerFalse
, True or False: Bioethics is a particular aspect of the science of ethics which guides our
judgment concerning the morality of human acts in the use of biomedical technologies. -
answerTrue
True or False: In moral theology we judge a biomedical act relative to our supernatural
end (perfect happiness in God), but in ethics we judge such acts relative to our natural
end (temporal happiness that should be ordered to ultimate happiness). - answerTrue
True or False: In this course we will use faith more than reason and religion more than
science. - answerFalse
True or False: In ethics, when we judge an action, our resources include reason (natural
moral law, conscience, act of the intellect), contemporary and historical experience
(memories, teachings). - answerTrue
Why do we know that human persons are acting in accord with personal loving
communion with other human persons? - answerhuman persons are designed to freely
choose to love
Why must we realize that a genetically distinct member of the human species, a unique
individual human being, is a human person? - answerTo do otherwise would be
arbitrary, unreasonable and unscientific
Mr. Obama's advisors for bioethical issues rejected natural law theory and suggested
that a consensus, which could change with time, should be used to judge the morality of
bioethical issues. Why is it unreasonable to vote on the morality of a bioethical issue as
if truth evolves or why must we respect the natural moral law when judging the morality
of a bioethical issue? - answerTruth (true good) is objective, unchanging, not subjective.
Natural moral law is the objective standard of the true good for a well-formed
conscience. (His advisors might be suffering from malformed consciences or malicious
wills)
True or False: When someone obeys the natural moral law in the judgment of an action
while considering personal experience and the teaching of others, he is using his
conscience, an act of his intellect. - answerTrue
True or False: We can use reason alone to reach the following conclusions or
judgments: God exists, human souls are immaterial and immortal and knowledge is
immaterial. - answerTrue
True or False: An act is truly good, natural and in accord with our human nature, which
thrives on objective truth, when it conforms to and is informed by right reason
(prudence). - answerTrue
