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GEB 4004 Quiz 1What are resume virtues? - ANS-The ones you list on your resume, this skills that you
bring to the job market and that contribute to external success.
What are eulogy virtues? - ANS-The virtues that get talked about at your funeral, the
ones that exist at the core of your being-whether you are kind, brave, honest, or faithful;
what kind of relationships you formed.
What book helped David Brooks think about the two sets of virtues? - ANS-Lonely Man
of Faith by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
Does the world think eulogy virtues or resume virtues are more important? -
ANS-Eulogy virtues
Which Adam is the career-oriented, ambitious side of our nature? - ANS-Adam 1
Which Adam wants to build, create, produce, and discover things and wants to have
high status and win victories? - ANS-Adam 1
Which Adam is the internal one and wants to embody certain moral qualities? -
ANS-Adam 2
Which Adam wants to have a serene inner character, a quiet but solid sense of right and
wrong - not only to do good, but to be good? - ANS-Adam 2
To nurture your Adam ___ career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. - ANS-1
To nurture your Adam ___ moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses. -
ANS-2
We live in a culture that nurtures Adam ___ and neglects Adam ___. - ANS-1;2
Who said the quote "the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor
between classes, nor between political parties either-but right through every human
heart." and what does it mean? - ANS-Aleksandr Solzhenitsym; it is an explanation of
life's essential problem
,Moral Ecology - ANS-A set of norms, assumptions, beliefs, and habits of behavior and
an institutionalized set of moral demands that emerge organically
What is the Big Me? - ANS-A culture that encouraged people to see themselves as the
center of the universe.
How do you earn self respect? - ANS-By being better than you used to be, by being
dependable in times of testing, and straight in times of temptation
When does a moral dilemma arise? - ANS-When two legitimate moral values clash
What does it mean to be an emotivist? - ANS-You make moral judgments on the basis
of the feelings that burble up.
What is humility? - ANS-Having an accurate assessment of your own nature and your
own place in the cosmos
What three effects has information technology had on moral ecology? - ANS-1.
Communications have become faster and busier
2. Social media allows a more self-referential information environment
3. Social media encourages a broadcasting personality.
What does self-effacing mean? - ANS-Not making yourself noticeable, or not trying to
get the attention of other people
What is vocation? - ANS-Life's destiny, bigger than personal progress. it is not a career,
not chosen by an individual. it is a calling
What does the humility code say? - ANS-we don't live for happiness we live for holiness;
proposition one defines the goal of life; pride is a central vice - it blinds us; no person
can achieve self-mastery on his or her own; the things that lead us astray are short-term
How does the author describe the U curve? - ANS-"They had to go down to go up. They
had to descend into the valley of humility to climb to the heights of character."
Who are the two quarterbacks discussed in Chapter 10? - ANS-Johnny Unitas - more
Adam 2
Joe Namath - more Adam 1
, What were the names of the humanists that emphasized how little we can know, how
hard it is to know ourselves, and how hard we have to work on the long road virtue? -
ANS-Samuel Johnson, Michel de Montaigne, and George Eliot
What was the name of the moral romantic that placed emphasis on our inner
goodness? - ANS-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who published the book "Peace of Mind" that urged people to engrave a new morality
on their hearts? - ANS-Rabbi Joshua L. Liebman
Who was the most influential psychologist of the twentieth century? - ANS-Carl Rogers
What was the name of the woman discussed in Chapter 10 that was elected president
of the Washington Post Company in 1963? - ANS-Katharine Meyer
What was the "crooked timber" tradition? - ANS-It emphasized our own brokenness. It
was a tradition that demanded humility in the face of our own limitations. But it was also
a tradition that held that each of us has the power to confront our own weaknesses,
tackle our own sins, and that in the course of this confrontation with ourselves we build
character.
Who said this quote: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever
made."? - ANS-Immanuel Kant
What are resume virtues? - ANS-The ones you list on your resume, this skills that you
bring to the job market and that contribute to external success.
What are eulogy virtues? - ANS-The virtues that get talked about at your funeral, the
ones that exist at the core of your being-whether you are kind, brave, honest, or faithful;
what kind of relationships you formed.
What book helped David Brooks think about the two sets of virtues? - ANS-Lonely Man
of Faith by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
Does the world think eulogy virtues or resume virtues are more important?
Our education
system is certainly oriented
around the _______ virtues
more than the ________ ones. - ANS-Eulogy virtues
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