Applied Ethics - Unit 1 Exam Review
Philosophy - Question and answers- a quest of genuine answers about reality
- a search for wisdom concerning what to do with the knowledge we have
Metaethics - Question and answersThe branch of ethical theory that involves
philosophizing about the very terms of ethics and considering the structure of ethics as
an object of inquiry
Normative ethics - Question and answersThe branch of philosophical ethics that
investigates the set of questions that arise when discussing how one ought to act
Applied ethics - Question and answersthe branch of Ethics that deals with controversial
moral problems - for example abortion, premarital sex, capital punishment, euthanasia,
and civil disobedience
Morality - Question and answersPrinciples concerning the distinction between right and
wrong or good and bad behavior
Law - Question and answersThe system of rules that a particular country or community
recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition
of penalties
Deontology - Question and answersThe view that certain features in the act itself have
intrinsic value
"there is no truth" - Question and answersThis statement commits intellectual suicide. Is
that statement true?
Polemics - Question and answersAttacking another argument
Apologetics - Question and answersDefending an argument
Why is relativism so attractive to many? - Question and answersIt seems to promote
tolerance and acceptance
Subjectivism and it's problems - Question and answers- States that right and wrongs
are relative to the individual
- Could be used to justify murder, rape, etc
Conventionalism and it's problems - Question and answers- States that right and
wrongs are relative to the culture
Philosophy - Question and answers- a quest of genuine answers about reality
- a search for wisdom concerning what to do with the knowledge we have
Metaethics - Question and answersThe branch of ethical theory that involves
philosophizing about the very terms of ethics and considering the structure of ethics as
an object of inquiry
Normative ethics - Question and answersThe branch of philosophical ethics that
investigates the set of questions that arise when discussing how one ought to act
Applied ethics - Question and answersthe branch of Ethics that deals with controversial
moral problems - for example abortion, premarital sex, capital punishment, euthanasia,
and civil disobedience
Morality - Question and answersPrinciples concerning the distinction between right and
wrong or good and bad behavior
Law - Question and answersThe system of rules that a particular country or community
recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition
of penalties
Deontology - Question and answersThe view that certain features in the act itself have
intrinsic value
"there is no truth" - Question and answersThis statement commits intellectual suicide. Is
that statement true?
Polemics - Question and answersAttacking another argument
Apologetics - Question and answersDefending an argument
Why is relativism so attractive to many? - Question and answersIt seems to promote
tolerance and acceptance
Subjectivism and it's problems - Question and answers- States that right and wrongs
are relative to the individual
- Could be used to justify murder, rape, etc
Conventionalism and it's problems - Question and answers- States that right and
wrongs are relative to the culture
