Unit 1

Question 1

Deals with deeper issues in life

Answer 1

Ethics

Question 2

Ethymology og ethics: Greek word meaning custom and habit

Answer 2

Ethos

Question 3

He said “capacity to think critically about moral values”

Answer 3

Larry Churchill

Question 4

Determinung grounds or bases for a specific set of values

Answer 4

Ethics

Question 5

Things we give importance

Answer 5

Values

Question 6

Judgement of personal approval or dissaproval that we made about what we see, hear, and smell or taste.

Answer 6

Aesthetics

Question 7

Greek word of aesthetics meaning sense or feeling

Answer 7

Aesthesis

Question 8

Proper way of doing things

Answer 8

Technique / Technical

Question 9

Concerned with right and wrong actions maintained by the society to which we belong

Answer 9

Etiquette

Question 10

Meaning or context of words is being subject to different interpretations

Answer 10

Usage of negation “not”

Question 11

It is a word used to oppose in a neutral manner

Answer 11

Ammoral

Question 12

Intellectual discipline belonging to human philosophy (professional ethics)

Answer 12

Ethics

Question 13

Refer to specific beliefs or attitudes people have

Answer 13

Morals

Question 14

Discipline of studying and underdtanding behavior and ideal ways of thinking

Answer 14

Ethics

Question 15

Make moral valuations without judgement either for or against

Answer 15

Descriptive Study of Ethics

Question 16

A subjective study based on own opinion and analysis

Answer 16

Normative Study of Ethics

Question 17

Situations that are sources of inconclusive debate

Answer 17

Moral Issue

Question 18

What to act and what to perform for you to decide

Answer 18

Moral Decision

Question 19

Making an assessment on the actions or behavior of someone

Answer 19

Moral Judgement

Question 20

Choosing between two goods or between the lesser of two evils

Answer 20

Moral Dilemma

Question 21

Rationally established grounds by which one justifies and maintains her moral decisions and judgement

Answer 21

Principle

Question 22

Systematic attempt to establish the validity of maintaining certain moral principles

Answer 22

Moral Theory

Question 23

Interconnected ideas and structure where we evaluate our reasons

Answer 23

Framework

Question 24

We can reconsider, clarify, modify and strengthen our principles

Answer 24

Importance

Question 25

A source of authority that ones guide to ethical behavior

Answer 25

Law

Question 26

Enforced by way of a system of sanctions administered through various sanctions and institutions

Answer 26

Law

Question 27

Different rules and regulation put forward by an authority that requires compliance

Answer 27

Positive Law

Question 28

Ethically acceptable or unacceptable is relative or dependent to one's culture

Answer 28

Cultural Relativism

Question 29

Done in moral philosophy or theology

Answer 29

Normative Study of Ethics

Question 30

Prescribes what we ought to maintain as our standards or bases for moral valuation

Answer 30

Normative Study of Ethics

Question 31

Reasons we give to decide or to judge and the basis of action

Answer 31

Reasoning

Question 32

Example of basis of action

Answer 32

Punishment or reward, principle

Question 33

Sources of Authority

Answer 33

Law, Religion, Culture

Question 34

Has a benefit of providing an objective standard that is obligatory and applicable to all

Answer 34

Law

Question 35

It cannot tell us what to pursue, but only what to avoid

Answer 35

Law

Question 36

Constrains us from performing act that we are not supposed to do

Answer 36

Prohibitive nature of law

Question 37

"One is obliged to God in all things, as a foundation for ethical values."

Answer 37

Divine Command

Question 38

The customs, arts, social intitutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group

Answer 38

Culture

Question 39

He identifies the problems in cultural relatuvism

Answer 39

James Rachels

Question 40

Three theories in ethics that center on the self

Answer 40

Subjectivism, Psychological Egoism, Ethical Egoism

Question 41

Individual thinking person (the subject) is at the heart of all moral valuations

Answer 41

Subjectivism

Question 42

The underlying dynamic behind all human actions as a matter of pursuit of self-interest

Answer 42

Psychological Egoism

Question 43

It does not suppose that all our actions are already inevitably self-serving

Answer 43

Ethical Egoism

Question 44

Prescribes that we make our own ends, our own ends, interests as our single overriding concern

Answer 44

Ethical Egoism