Ethics in America DSST Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The academic discipline of analyzing
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morality, based on reasoning, rules and logic.
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Cosmogony - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The study of the origin of the
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universe.
Pythagoras - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A pre-Socratic philosopher,
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mathematician and cosmologist who wrote nothing himself, but is
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historically thought to have believed in the magic of numbers and
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reincarnation.
Sophists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A group of traveling teachers from the
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fifth century BC who were paid to lecture on a variety of topics. They
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can be considered the first relativists, and gained a reputation for being
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untrustworthy thanks to their reliance on persuasion over truth.
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Relativism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The belief that every point of view
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and standard of behavior is equally valid.
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, Thucydides - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A Greek historian who wrote The | | | | | | | | |
History of the Peloponnesian War, which presented a mixture of facts
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and fact-based fictionalization. In it he raises questions of the ethics of
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war. He equated freedom with happiness and courage.
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Socrates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-One of the most famous thinkers of all
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time, not for his beliefs, but his dialectic method of teaching. He never
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wrote anything himself, but was memorialized in the works of his
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student, Plato. For him, virtue and knowledge were the same, and all
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wickedness stemmed from ignorance. The Athenian government saw | | | | | | | |
him as a threat and had him executed.
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Dialectic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Also known as the Socratic Method, a
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method of argument in which one person asks the other questions to
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try to get them to realize their own answers or the flaws in their
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argument.
Plato - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founder of the Academy and writer of
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the Republic.
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Allegory of the Cave - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An extended metaphor
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created by Plato. It describes a group of prisoners in a cave, chained so
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their backs are to the entrance. They believe that the shadows (sensed
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reality) before them are reality, until someone manages to get free, turn
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around and see the source of the shadows (the real world, which can
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only be experienced intellectually).
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With Correct Answers
Ethics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The academic discipline of analyzing
| | | | | | | |
morality, based on reasoning, rules and logic.
| | | | | |
Cosmogony - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The study of the origin of the
| | | | | | | | | |
universe.
Pythagoras - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A pre-Socratic philosopher,
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mathematician and cosmologist who wrote nothing himself, but is
| | | | | | | | |
historically thought to have believed in the magic of numbers and
| | | | | | | | | | |
reincarnation.
Sophists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A group of traveling teachers from the
| | | | | | | | |
fifth century BC who were paid to lecture on a variety of topics. They
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
can be considered the first relativists, and gained a reputation for being
| | | | | | | | | | | |
untrustworthy thanks to their reliance on persuasion over truth.
| | | | | | | |
Relativism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The belief that every point of view
| | | | | | | | | |
and standard of behavior is equally valid.
| | | | | |
, Thucydides - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A Greek historian who wrote The | | | | | | | | |
History of the Peloponnesian War, which presented a mixture of facts
| | | | | | | | | | |
and fact-based fictionalization. In it he raises questions of the ethics of
| | | | | | | | | | | |
war. He equated freedom with happiness and courage.
| | | | | | |
Socrates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-One of the most famous thinkers of all
| | | | | | | | | |
time, not for his beliefs, but his dialectic method of teaching. He never
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
wrote anything himself, but was memorialized in the works of his
| | | | | | | | | | |
student, Plato. For him, virtue and knowledge were the same, and all
| | | | | | | | | | | |
wickedness stemmed from ignorance. The Athenian government saw | | | | | | | |
him as a threat and had him executed.
| | | | | | |
Dialectic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Also known as the Socratic Method, a
| | | | | | | | | |
method of argument in which one person asks the other questions to
| | | | | | | | | | | |
try to get them to realize their own answers or the flaws in their
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
argument.
Plato - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Founder of the Academy and writer of
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the Republic.
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Allegory of the Cave - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An extended metaphor
| | | | | | | | |
created by Plato. It describes a group of prisoners in a cave, chained so
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
their backs are to the entrance. They believe that the shadows (sensed
| | | | | | | | | | | |
reality) before them are reality, until someone manages to get free, turn
| | | | | | | | | | |
around and see the source of the shadows (the real world, which can
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
only be experienced intellectually).
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