Chapter 12

Question 1

Have insisted that when we make ethical statements, we are expressing ideas that are either true or false

Answer 1

Naturalistic theory

Question 2

Simply express how someone feels about something

Answer 2

Emotivist ethics

Question 3

Is a natural experience that all humans occasionally undergo

Answer 3

Pain

Question 4

____ refer simply to themselves and are thus indefinable

Answer 4

Value terms

Question 5

Society treats them as dangerous

Answer 5

Psychopaths or sociopaths

Question 6

Moore believes that ethics is predicted upon?

Answer 6

Intrinsic goods

Question 7

the ethical non-naturalism of ____

Answer 7

G.E. Moore

Question 8

Has no definition because it is simple

Answer 8

Good

Question 9

Any act that increases the ___ value is thereby a right act

Answer 9

Intrinsic values

Question 10

____ tells a great deal about the character of the person doing the act but nothing about the morality of the act as such

Answer 10

Motive

Question 11

___ is not a satisfactory ethical theory

Answer 11

Consequentialism

Question 12

____ ethics deny that ethical statements are either true or false.

Answer 12

Emotivist