Chapter 7

Question 1

Things that are preferred or desired

Answer 1

Values

Question 2

Things that we want more

Answer 2

Values

Question 3

Things that we want less of

Answer 3

Disvalues

Question 4

Study of our valuing nature and the kind of the things that we value

Answer 4

Axiology

Question 5

Four major areas of axiology are

Answer 5

“All of them are controversial”

Question 6

Four major areas of axiology

Answer 6

Truth
Holy
Beauty
Human behavior

Question 7

Study of truth and its meaning

Answer 7

Epistemology

Question 8

Axiology when it deals with the nature of the beautiful is known as

Answer 8

Esthetics

Question 9

Some actions that we want more

Answer 9

Peace love sharing well being

Question 10

Actions we want less of

Answer 10

War hate greed fear

Question 11

Pair of terms refers to a situation or state of affairs that is desired or preferred

Answer 11

Good and evil

Question 12

Refers to actions that people do or attitudes they choose to embrace

Answer 12

Right and wrong

Question 13

Words that refer to a sense of inner constraint that binds our consciences

Answer 13

Ought and obligation

Question 14

Feeling of constraint is a sense of?

Answer 14

Obligation

Question 15

Within our power to enhance a value, we feel that we _____ to do it

Answer 15

Ought

Question 16

“Only my own good that matters”

Answer 16

Egoism

Question 17

Concerned with the good of others

Answer 17

Altruism

Question 18

Are terms used to refer to two approaches to moral dilemmas

Answer 18

Act theory and rule theory

Question 19

Are often intangible or spiritual values, such as knowledge or love

Answer 19

Intrinsic vales

Question 20

Are considered to be things that cannot be taken away from us without our consent

Answer 20

Intrinsic values

Question 21

Gains whatever value they possess from something outside themselves

Answer 21

Extrinsic values

Question 22

They are valuable only as instruments by which we can gain something that is valuable in itself

Answer 22

Extrinsic/ instrumental values

Question 23

Refers to special questions pertaining to ethics that have become important in 20th century philosophy

Answer 23

Metaethics

Question 24

Deals with the analysis of ethical terms

Answer 24

Metaethics

Question 25

Goes behind ethics itself

Answer 25

Metaethics

Question 26

Holds ethical statements are true-false statements and thus have cognitive value

Answer 26

Cognitivism

Question 27

Claims that ethical statements are not true or false at all

Answer 27

Noncognitivism

Question 28

Pair of terms refers to the source of values

Answer 28

Objectivism and subjectivism

Question 29

Holds that values have their source in something outside of mankind

Answer 29

Objectivism

Question 30

Holds that all values arise from human consciousness

Answer 30

Subjectivism

Question 31

Consciousness of individual

Answer 31

Atheistic existentialism

Question 32

Subjectivism tends to _____

Answer 32

Ethical relativism

Question 33

Objectivism tends to

Answer 33

Greater or lesser degrees of absolutism

Question 34

Study of values

Answer 34

Axiology