Christian Ethics Exam with Correct Answers
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Terms in this set (104)
• Because we crave happiness, and ethics is about
happiness
• Because moral concerns are unavoidable in life
1. Explain why it is • Because moral concerns may be approached in
important to study ethics. diverse ways
• Because moral values often conflict with each other
• Because of the conflicting assessments of morality in
our society
• Morality is a first order set of beliefs and practices
2. What is the relationship
about how to live a good life.
between ethics and
• Ethics is a second order conscious reflection on our
morality?
beliefs and practices (reflection on morality)
• Meta-ethics is the attempt to understand the
metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and
What is meta-ethics?
psychological presuppositions and commitments of
moral thought, talk, and practice.
o Metaphysical where does ethics come from?
o Epistemological how do we know what is right/wrong?
what does it mean to say that something is right or
o Semantic
wrong?
does moral responsibility presuppose free will? If so,
o Psychological
what counts as free will? Free will is limited.
• Descriptive ethics describes the way people actually live
,• Normative ethics concerned with how people should live
• Philosophical ethics secular ethics
the critical evaluation of human conduct from the
• Christian Ethics
Christian perspective
. How should Christian • Christian ethics lies between Christian theology
ethics be related to other (nature of god, human nature, grace, forgiveness, etc.)
scholarly disciplines, such and the sciences (sociology, psychology, biology, etc
as Christian theology and
the sciences?
- any ethics in which the rightness of an action is
determined by its end, result, or consequence./
"Explains the differences between good and bad by
• Teleological Ethics
the effects which modes of conduct and acts of will
naturally produce upon the life of the agent and his
surroundings"
• Hedonism If it feels good, do it."
• Utilitarianism Make the world a better place"
• Virtue Ethics "Be a good person"
the good is that which promotes general social and
• Marxism
economic equality among all persons
Identify these types of • Latin American theologies, black theologies, and
teleological ethics: feminist/womanist theologies are the main types of
hedonism; utilitarianism; liberation ethics.
virtue ethics; Marxism.
What are the main types
of liberation ethics?
• Deontological ethics focuses on law, duty, obligation, and constraint
deontological (or • Deontological ethics begins with the foundational
formalistic) ethics and its principles of right and wrong which lead to the good
basic approach to
ethics/decision-making
, the view that basic moral principles are known
• Intuitionalism
intuitively.
grew up learning that morality is outside of people
but he rejected it; the fact that humans are the image
• Kantian
of God gives humans a dignity and ability to know
right
I do this or do not this because God says so (Abraham
• Divine Command
example)
determining the right course of action for me- we
• Personalist ethics
can't make absolute rules in advance of situations.
• Ethical egoism watch out for #1; we have no duties to anyone but
(objectivism ourselves.
always ask yourself what is the loving thing to do- "we
• Christian situation ethics
must love one another"
• Human behavior is not totally a matter of free
choice.
What does behaviorism • People's actions are determined by conditioning-
(or, determinism) social, cultural, & economic circumstances; personal
contribute to our background; genetic factors; other factors over which
understanding of ethics? individual has little or no control.
• No free choice (we have free will but we don't have
an absolute free will.
What did these persons • Immanuel Kant had 3 main ideas: autonomy, reason,
contribute to the study of and categorical imperatives:
ethics: Immanuel Kant
(know his ideas well
no authority external to ourselves is needed to
constitute or inform us of the demands of morality; we
1. Autonomy
don't need another person, book or anything else to
tell us what is morally right and wrong
Save
Terms in this set (104)
• Because we crave happiness, and ethics is about
happiness
• Because moral concerns are unavoidable in life
1. Explain why it is • Because moral concerns may be approached in
important to study ethics. diverse ways
• Because moral values often conflict with each other
• Because of the conflicting assessments of morality in
our society
• Morality is a first order set of beliefs and practices
2. What is the relationship
about how to live a good life.
between ethics and
• Ethics is a second order conscious reflection on our
morality?
beliefs and practices (reflection on morality)
• Meta-ethics is the attempt to understand the
metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and
What is meta-ethics?
psychological presuppositions and commitments of
moral thought, talk, and practice.
o Metaphysical where does ethics come from?
o Epistemological how do we know what is right/wrong?
what does it mean to say that something is right or
o Semantic
wrong?
does moral responsibility presuppose free will? If so,
o Psychological
what counts as free will? Free will is limited.
• Descriptive ethics describes the way people actually live
,• Normative ethics concerned with how people should live
• Philosophical ethics secular ethics
the critical evaluation of human conduct from the
• Christian Ethics
Christian perspective
. How should Christian • Christian ethics lies between Christian theology
ethics be related to other (nature of god, human nature, grace, forgiveness, etc.)
scholarly disciplines, such and the sciences (sociology, psychology, biology, etc
as Christian theology and
the sciences?
- any ethics in which the rightness of an action is
determined by its end, result, or consequence./
"Explains the differences between good and bad by
• Teleological Ethics
the effects which modes of conduct and acts of will
naturally produce upon the life of the agent and his
surroundings"
• Hedonism If it feels good, do it."
• Utilitarianism Make the world a better place"
• Virtue Ethics "Be a good person"
the good is that which promotes general social and
• Marxism
economic equality among all persons
Identify these types of • Latin American theologies, black theologies, and
teleological ethics: feminist/womanist theologies are the main types of
hedonism; utilitarianism; liberation ethics.
virtue ethics; Marxism.
What are the main types
of liberation ethics?
• Deontological ethics focuses on law, duty, obligation, and constraint
deontological (or • Deontological ethics begins with the foundational
formalistic) ethics and its principles of right and wrong which lead to the good
basic approach to
ethics/decision-making
, the view that basic moral principles are known
• Intuitionalism
intuitively.
grew up learning that morality is outside of people
but he rejected it; the fact that humans are the image
• Kantian
of God gives humans a dignity and ability to know
right
I do this or do not this because God says so (Abraham
• Divine Command
example)
determining the right course of action for me- we
• Personalist ethics
can't make absolute rules in advance of situations.
• Ethical egoism watch out for #1; we have no duties to anyone but
(objectivism ourselves.
always ask yourself what is the loving thing to do- "we
• Christian situation ethics
must love one another"
• Human behavior is not totally a matter of free
choice.
What does behaviorism • People's actions are determined by conditioning-
(or, determinism) social, cultural, & economic circumstances; personal
contribute to our background; genetic factors; other factors over which
understanding of ethics? individual has little or no control.
• No free choice (we have free will but we don't have
an absolute free will.
What did these persons • Immanuel Kant had 3 main ideas: autonomy, reason,
contribute to the study of and categorical imperatives:
ethics: Immanuel Kant
(know his ideas well
no authority external to ourselves is needed to
constitute or inform us of the demands of morality; we
1. Autonomy
don't need another person, book or anything else to
tell us what is morally right and wrong
