The Wise Owl guide to DSST Ethics in
America Questions With Correct Answers
Evaluation can fall into 2 categories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Empirical
| | | | | | | | |
(descriptive)
| it can be tested
| | |
| it is considered to be fact
| | | | |
Normative (moral) |
| an evaluation that demonstrates the belief of the
| | | | | | | |
evaluator
Ethics is divided into 3 main categories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | |
Normative - The search for a norm or a standard of
| | | | | | | | | | |
| behaviors |
Applied - Applying ethics to specific problems or
| | | | | | | |
| issues
Meta-ethics - the study of the terminology,
| | | | | | |
| systems, and concepts of ethics
| | | |
,Objectivists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Believe that their truth is absolutly
| | | | | | | | |
true regardless of circumstance.
| | |
What is right is always right and what is wrong is always wrong.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Relativists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Believe that right and wrong are
| | | | | | | | |
defined by cultural or individual circumstances.
| | | | |
Virtues and vices are not fixed.
| | | | |
Cultural relativists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-each society determines
| | | | | | |
what is right
| |
Personal relativists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-each person defines what is
| | | | | | | |
right
|
Consequentialists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-morality is determined by
| | | | | | |
the consequences of the action
| | | |
Deontologists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-morality is not determined by
| | | | | | | |
the consequences of the action.
| | | |
, It is right or wrong regardless of the result.
| | | | | | | |
Universal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Applies to all people
| | | | | |
An absolutist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-holds that an ethical principle
| | | | | | | | |
should apply without exception.
| | |
This is difficult to accept or defend.
| | | | | |
Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | |
Prominent greek philosphers | |
Thucydides (460 - 400) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-wrote history of the
| | | | | | | | | |
Peloponnesian war |
He believed that war was caused by human nature not gods or fate.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Socrates (470 - 399) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a contemporary of
| | | | | | | | |
Thucydides
Regarded as the first major ethical philosopher.
| | | | | |
America Questions With Correct Answers
Evaluation can fall into 2 categories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Empirical
| | | | | | | | |
(descriptive)
| it can be tested
| | |
| it is considered to be fact
| | | | |
Normative (moral) |
| an evaluation that demonstrates the belief of the
| | | | | | | |
evaluator
Ethics is divided into 3 main categories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | |
Normative - The search for a norm or a standard of
| | | | | | | | | | |
| behaviors |
Applied - Applying ethics to specific problems or
| | | | | | | |
| issues
Meta-ethics - the study of the terminology,
| | | | | | |
| systems, and concepts of ethics
| | | |
,Objectivists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Believe that their truth is absolutly
| | | | | | | | |
true regardless of circumstance.
| | |
What is right is always right and what is wrong is always wrong.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Relativists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Believe that right and wrong are
| | | | | | | | |
defined by cultural or individual circumstances.
| | | | |
Virtues and vices are not fixed.
| | | | |
Cultural relativists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-each society determines
| | | | | | |
what is right
| |
Personal relativists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-each person defines what is
| | | | | | | |
right
|
Consequentialists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-morality is determined by
| | | | | | |
the consequences of the action
| | | |
Deontologists - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-morality is not determined by
| | | | | | | |
the consequences of the action.
| | | |
, It is right or wrong regardless of the result.
| | | | | | | |
Universal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Applies to all people
| | | | | |
An absolutist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-holds that an ethical principle
| | | | | | | | |
should apply without exception.
| | |
This is difficult to accept or defend.
| | | | | |
Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | |
Prominent greek philosphers | |
Thucydides (460 - 400) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-wrote history of the
| | | | | | | | | |
Peloponnesian war |
He believed that war was caused by human nature not gods or fate.
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Socrates (470 - 399) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a contemporary of
| | | | | | | | |
Thucydides
Regarded as the first major ethical philosopher.
| | | | | |
