ETHICS MIDTERM COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Normative.
Answer: How people ought to behave (morality)
◉ Descriptive.
Answer: How people do behave (observation)
◉ Divine Command Theory.
Answer: Any position in ethics which claims that the rightness or
wrongness of actions depends on whether they correspond to God's
commands or not.
◉ Sound Argument.
Answer: A valid argument in which all of the premises are true
◉ Justification.
Answer: the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by
reasoning
◉ Rationalization.
, Answer: Explanation of an act that may or may not have been right,
to convince yourself you were right
◉ Ethical Theory.
Answer: Examines the different principles, ideas, systems, and
philosophies used to make judgments about what is right and wrong
and good and bad.
Two types of ethical theories:
1. utilitarianism
2. Kant's Moral Theory
◉ Motive.
Answer: cause for action
◉ Act.
Answer: Doing something
◉ Consequentialist Theory.
Answer: A theory asserting that what makes an action right is its
consequences (the ends of an action)
◉ Non-Consequentialist Theory.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Normative.
Answer: How people ought to behave (morality)
◉ Descriptive.
Answer: How people do behave (observation)
◉ Divine Command Theory.
Answer: Any position in ethics which claims that the rightness or
wrongness of actions depends on whether they correspond to God's
commands or not.
◉ Sound Argument.
Answer: A valid argument in which all of the premises are true
◉ Justification.
Answer: the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by
reasoning
◉ Rationalization.
, Answer: Explanation of an act that may or may not have been right,
to convince yourself you were right
◉ Ethical Theory.
Answer: Examines the different principles, ideas, systems, and
philosophies used to make judgments about what is right and wrong
and good and bad.
Two types of ethical theories:
1. utilitarianism
2. Kant's Moral Theory
◉ Motive.
Answer: cause for action
◉ Act.
Answer: Doing something
◉ Consequentialist Theory.
Answer: A theory asserting that what makes an action right is its
consequences (the ends of an action)
◉ Non-Consequentialist Theory.
