ETHICS IN AMERICA DSST STUDY GUIDE
2026 2027 VERIFIED ANSWERS ACTUAL
UPDATED PRACTICE QUESTIONS HIGH
YIELD STUDY MATERIAL EXAM PREP
MATERIAL LATEST VERSION TEST BANK
GRADED A+ SUCCESS REVIEW PACK
COMPLETE EDITION REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS
1. Ethics: The academic discipline of analyzing morality, based on reasoning, rules and
logic.
2. Cosmogony: The study of the origin of the universe.
3. Pythagoras: A pre-Socratic philosopher, mathematician and cosmologist who wrote
nothing himself, but is historically thought to have believed in the magic of numbers
and reincarnation.
4. Sophists: 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.
5. Relativism: The belief that every point of view and standard of behavior is equally
valid.
6. Thucydides: 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.
7. Socrates: 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.
8. Dialectic: 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.
9. Plato: Founder of the Academy and writer of the Republic.
10. Allegory of the Cave: 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).
11. Aristotle: A philosopher and Plato's student who concentrated on empirical
knowledge. He believed that change is necessary and natural, and everything has a
purpose. He wrote Nicomachean Ethics, and that balance was the key to happiness.
12. Stoics: Followers of Zeno, Greeks who believed that absolute laws and destiny ruled
the universe, and that since humans could not change fate, they were happiest when
they simply accepted it and lived with self-control.
13. Hedonists: Also known as Epicureans after their original teacher, these believed that
happiness was the purpose of life, and anything that reduced pain and increased
happiness was therefore good.
1/5
,
2026 2027 VERIFIED ANSWERS ACTUAL
UPDATED PRACTICE QUESTIONS HIGH
YIELD STUDY MATERIAL EXAM PREP
MATERIAL LATEST VERSION TEST BANK
GRADED A+ SUCCESS REVIEW PACK
COMPLETE EDITION REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS
1. Ethics: The academic discipline of analyzing morality, based on reasoning, rules and
logic.
2. Cosmogony: The study of the origin of the universe.
3. Pythagoras: A pre-Socratic philosopher, mathematician and cosmologist who wrote
nothing himself, but is historically thought to have believed in the magic of numbers
and reincarnation.
4. Sophists: 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.
5. Relativism: The belief that every point of view and standard of behavior is equally
valid.
6. Thucydides: 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.
7. Socrates: 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.
8. Dialectic: 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.
9. Plato: Founder of the Academy and writer of the Republic.
10. Allegory of the Cave: 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).
11. Aristotle: A philosopher and Plato's student who concentrated on empirical
knowledge. He believed that change is necessary and natural, and everything has a
purpose. He wrote Nicomachean Ethics, and that balance was the key to happiness.
12. Stoics: Followers of Zeno, Greeks who believed that absolute laws and destiny ruled
the universe, and that since humans could not change fate, they were happiest when
they simply accepted it and lived with self-control.
13. Hedonists: Also known as Epicureans after their original teacher, these believed that
happiness was the purpose of life, and anything that reduced pain and increased
happiness was therefore good.
1/5
,
