Morality Based on Judgment of Others

Question 1

Types of Moral Judgements

Answer 1

judge actions to be right/wrong, judge people, their characters, their motives, their moral principles

Question 2

descriptive ethics

Answer 2

tries to identify the principles the people do, in fact, use to make moral judgments (practiced by sociologists)

Question 3

normative ethics

Answer 3

tries to identify the principles that people should use to do right or avoid wrong (practiced by philosophers)

Question 4

evolutionary ethics

Answer 4

actions that promote the survival and existence of the human species

Question 5

absolutism

Answer 5

moral values are fixed regardless of context, time, place, culture, situation, or person (black and white, clear cut)

Question 6

relativism

Answer 6

moral values are based on context, time, place, culture, situation, or person

Question 7

divine command theory

Answer 7

what makes an action right is that God commands it to be done