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Stephen L. Carter, The Insufficiency of Honesty

Stephen L. Carter, The Insufficiency of Honesty

Read The Insufficiency of Honesty and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Carter’s crowd broke into applause when he said he was going to talk about what?

responsibility

integrity

justice

happiness

2. Which of the following is not one of Carter’s three steps to integrity?

decisive action

willingness to compromise

articulation of intent

distinguishing right from wrong

3. All laws have only two functions:

to enforce some actions and to forbid others.

to enact the decisions of the majority and to prevent the rebellion of the minority.

remuneration and retaliation.

justice and prevention.

4. According to Carter, promise or consent does not tell us

what we should do.

what we would like to do.

what others expect us to do.

what we can do.

5. According to most anthropologists, linking obligations to promises is

a uniquely American way of looking at moral responsibility.

common in most civilized nations.

found in societies as early as the ancient Greeks.

not practiced by most religions.