Intro to Ethics 2306 FINAL EXAM Pry
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What is Ethics? - ✔✔the branch of philosophy that examines fundamental
questions about morality (good/evil and right/wrong).
Who's interested in ethics? - ✔✔Science, Business, Law, Religion, Education,
Medicine
Pojman's 5 purposes of morality: - ✔✔1) to keep society from falling apart
2) to ameliorate human suffering
3) to promote human flourishing
4) to resolve conflict of interest in just and orderly ways
5) to assign praise and blame, reward and punishment, and guilt
Describe the film Lord of the Flies: - ✔✔Author is William Golding
Original sin: innate tendency of humans towards savagery
What is Ethical Objectivism (Universalism)? - ✔✔moral truths are the same for
all people, at all times, at all places
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, What is Ethical Relativism? - ✔✔moral truths that are relative to particular
cultures or personal beliefs
What is egoism? - ✔✔the pursuit and promotion of one's own self interest and
well-being are the only criteria of right or wrong action
Ayn Rand - ✔✔advocate of egoism
wrote Atlas Shrugged and Fountain Head
Glaucon - ✔✔advocate of egoism
character in Plato's Republic
said it is "better to seem virtuous than to be virtuous."
said it can lead to loss of self (Example: Emma Bovary)
Thomas Hobbes - ✔✔advocate of egoism
17th century English philosopher
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Blinn College Questions with 100%
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What is Ethics? - ✔✔the branch of philosophy that examines fundamental
questions about morality (good/evil and right/wrong).
Who's interested in ethics? - ✔✔Science, Business, Law, Religion, Education,
Medicine
Pojman's 5 purposes of morality: - ✔✔1) to keep society from falling apart
2) to ameliorate human suffering
3) to promote human flourishing
4) to resolve conflict of interest in just and orderly ways
5) to assign praise and blame, reward and punishment, and guilt
Describe the film Lord of the Flies: - ✔✔Author is William Golding
Original sin: innate tendency of humans towards savagery
What is Ethical Objectivism (Universalism)? - ✔✔moral truths are the same for
all people, at all times, at all places
1|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, What is Ethical Relativism? - ✔✔moral truths that are relative to particular
cultures or personal beliefs
What is egoism? - ✔✔the pursuit and promotion of one's own self interest and
well-being are the only criteria of right or wrong action
Ayn Rand - ✔✔advocate of egoism
wrote Atlas Shrugged and Fountain Head
Glaucon - ✔✔advocate of egoism
character in Plato's Republic
said it is "better to seem virtuous than to be virtuous."
said it can lead to loss of self (Example: Emma Bovary)
Thomas Hobbes - ✔✔advocate of egoism
17th century English philosopher
2|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
