ethics quiz 1 Flashcards
Utilitarianism
Greatest good/happiness for the greatest amount of people with the least amount of pain.
Theodicy
Divine justice (or, defense of the highest wisdom against the charge of what is counterpurposive)
Deontology
Non-Hindu (i.e., Western) ethical term for the study or practice or duty
Poverty
Mill suggests that this may be completely extinguished by the wisdom of society
Lying
Einstein suggests that this destroys confidence, without which social cooperation is impossible
Pain
Levinas: “The justification of the neighbor’s _____ is certainly the source of all immorality.”
Yajna
Hindu practice of devotion or self-“sacrifice,” serving other’s before serving oneself.
good
yes
Teleology
end or goal,
Emotions
Einstein: scientific concepts do not express what?
Trimurti
Brahma (creator), Vishnu (preserver), and Shiva (destroyer)
Love
Levinas suggests that this might be “a non-useless suffering.”
Dike
This is the name of the Greek god(dess) of Justice, often represented as blindly weighing a scale.
First Cause
The cosmological argument for the existence of god (Aristotle) rests finally upon this.
Tridevi
Saraswati (knowledge), Lakshmi (fertility), and Parvarti (energy/love)