PHIL 235 EXAM PREP Questions and Answers (Scored A)
PHIL 235 EXAM PREP Questions and Answers (Scored A) What are the 3 types of categories of ethics? - ANSWER-meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics What is meta-ethics? - ANSWER-Study of morality. Does morality exist can it be justified? What is normative ethics? - ANSWER-Statements and principles that tell people how to behave to live a moral life. Example: guidelines, standards, rules What is applied ethics? - ANSWER-Study of morality and problems linked with specific contexts. For example, medicine, research, engineering What is Kant's Moral Theory? - ANSWER-Deontology What is John Stuart Mills theory? - ANSWER-Consequentialism What is consequentialism? - ANSWER-the doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences. right or wrong is determined What is deontology? - ANSWER-defines actions as right or wrong. Example killing is ALWAYS wrong. What is the feminist movement? - ANSWER-critique of traditional, ethical theories of rational, individual and self-interested thinking of male understanding (Western) What is biomedical ethics? - ANSWER-Research ethics in implementation of medical decision making What are prima-facie duties? - ANSWER-Duties that are obligatory unless there are strong, compelling reasons to override them What is implicit ethical subjectivisim? - ANSWER-A commitment to protecting the
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