Ethics Test 1

Question 1

What is ethics?

Answer 1

the systematic study of standards of right and wrong, justice and injustice, virtue and vice, with a view toward applying those standards in the realities of our lives.

Question 2

What is a moral life?

Answer 2

behavior in which we have a sense of “oughtness” or obligation.

Question 3

Consquentialists

Answer 3

concerned with, and believe that what makes actions right or wrong are, the results.

Question 4

Principal Ethics

Answer 4

concerned with and believe that some things are inherently right or wrong.

Question 5

Teleological ethics

Answer 5

Ethics of consequences

Utilizes an evaluation of results

Question 6

Deontological ethics

Answer 6

Principal approach

utilizes rules and principals

Question 7

Cultural Relativism

Answer 7

asserts that there are no universal morals, rights, or correct behavior for mankind as a whole.

Question 8

Diversity Thesis

Answer 8

moral practices vary widely for culture to culture and even within one culture at different times.

Question 9

Dependency Thesis

Answer 9

moral practices and ethical principals are NOT arrived at by thought, judgment or discourse - dependent on cultural environment.

Question 10

Problems with cultural relativism

Answer 10

is only descriptive

“no universal practices” does not hold up

Question 11

Emotivist ethics

Answer 11

How one feels emotionally about a topic or action

No universal ethics

Question 12

Disgust

Answer 12

followed by rejection of the thing under consideration

Question 13

Pleasure

Answer 13

universally followed by acceptance and/or attempts to prolong.

Question 14

Cultural relativism & emotivist

Answer 14

largely unconscious and automatic ethical evaluations.

completely subjective

Question 15

Ethical egoism

Answer 15

cognitive or thought based ethical model.
relies on rational thinking than feeling.
maximizing positive outcomes.

Question 16

Utilitarianism

Answer 16

all decisions to be made in order to maximize the benefit of the largest number of people.

Question 17

Clergy Confusion (anomie)

Answer 17

lack of clear delineation of authority. Bewilderment on who to serve and what to do. What has the final word.

Question 18

ways of learning or knowing

Answer 18

cultural differences
gender differences
group differences

Question 19

Character ethics

Answer 19

what we aught to BE. What is important is not what we do but who we are.

Question 20

Virtues

Answer 20

habits deemed desirable

Question 21

Vices

Answer 21

habits deemed undesirable

Question 22

character

Answer 22

inner and distinctive core of a person from which moral discernment, decisions, and actions spring.

Question 23

3 things - ethics class

Answer 23

stimulates moral imagination
hones moral analysis
elicits a sense of moral obligation

Question 24

classic defense

Answer 24

an educated person
an expert person
institutional person
responsible person
dedicated person

Question 25

moral decision

Answer 25

unless judgment can be made, a decision is not a moral decision.