LES 305 Exam 1 Clark UPDATED Exam
Complete Questions and Guide Answers
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1. Ethics:
Answer: Manner by which one lives one's life according to a standard of right or wrong behavior
- In both how one thinks and behaves towards others and how one would like them to think and behave towards others
2. Factors That Influence Ethics:
Answer: - One's upbringing
- One's religion
- One's social traditions and beliefs
- Society: Structured community of people bound together by similar traditions and customs
3. Understanding Right and Wrong:
Answer: Moral Standards Principles by which judgments are made about good and bad behavior based on
1. Religious Beliefs
,2. Cultural Beliefs
- Culture: Particular set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that characterize a group of individuals
3) Philosophical Beliefs
4. Source of Beliefs:
Answer: Family and friends Ethnic
Background
Religion
School Media
Personal role models and mentors
Morality: Collection of influences built over a person's life
** Sources add up to morality
5. How Should One Live?: -
Answer: Standards of ethical behavior are absorbed by osmosis from everyone around
- Ethical behavior can be based on religious morality or experience of human existence
- Morals and values: Set of personal principles by which one aims to live one's life
- Value System: Set of personal principles formalized into a code of behavior
6. Intrinsic Value:
,Answer: Quality by which a value is a good thing in itself -> Pursued for its own sake, whether anything comes from that pursuit
or not (Ex happiness, health, self-respect)
7. Instrumental Value:
Answer: Quality by which the pursuit of one's value is a good way to reach another value (Ex money is valued for what it can
buy rather than for itself)
8. Value Conflicts:
Answer: - Impact of a value system on individuals is how much their daily lives are influenced by those values
- Occur when one is presented with a situation that places one's value system in direct conflict with an action
- Personal Value System: Specific choices and responses to a situation by an individual
9. The Golden Rule:
Answer: - Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- Problem with the rule is the assumption that others would follow the same principles as one would do
10. Ethical Theories:
Answer: Virtue Ethics, Utilitarianism, Universal Ethics
11. Virtue Ethics:
Answer: - Living one's life according to a commitment to the achievement of a clear ideal
- Criticism: societies can place ditterent emphasis on ditterent virtues
, 12. Utilitarianism: -
Answer: Ethical choices that otter the greatest good for the greatest number of people
- Criticism: idea that the ends justify the means
13. Universal Ethics: -
Answer: Actions that are taken out of duty and obligation to a purely moral idea rather than based on the needs of the situation
(Universal principles are seen to apply to everyone, everywhere, all the time)
- Criticism: Reverse of the weakness in ethics for the greater good
14. Ethical Relativism:
Answer: Traditions of one's society, one's personal opinions, and the circumstances of the present moment define
one's ethical principles
- Implies some degree of flexibility as opposed to strict black and white rules
- Otters the comfort of being a part of the ethical majority in the community or society
15. Ethical Dilemmas:
Answer: - Situations where there are no obvious right or wrong decisions, but rather a right or right answer
- Occurs when the decision one must make requires one to make a right choice knowing full well that one is: leaving an equally right
choice undone or likely to sutter something bad as a result of that choice
- Contracting a personal ethical principle in making that choice
Complete Questions and Guide Answers
100% Verified Graded A+
1. Ethics:
Answer: Manner by which one lives one's life according to a standard of right or wrong behavior
- In both how one thinks and behaves towards others and how one would like them to think and behave towards others
2. Factors That Influence Ethics:
Answer: - One's upbringing
- One's religion
- One's social traditions and beliefs
- Society: Structured community of people bound together by similar traditions and customs
3. Understanding Right and Wrong:
Answer: Moral Standards Principles by which judgments are made about good and bad behavior based on
1. Religious Beliefs
,2. Cultural Beliefs
- Culture: Particular set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices that characterize a group of individuals
3) Philosophical Beliefs
4. Source of Beliefs:
Answer: Family and friends Ethnic
Background
Religion
School Media
Personal role models and mentors
Morality: Collection of influences built over a person's life
** Sources add up to morality
5. How Should One Live?: -
Answer: Standards of ethical behavior are absorbed by osmosis from everyone around
- Ethical behavior can be based on religious morality or experience of human existence
- Morals and values: Set of personal principles by which one aims to live one's life
- Value System: Set of personal principles formalized into a code of behavior
6. Intrinsic Value:
,Answer: Quality by which a value is a good thing in itself -> Pursued for its own sake, whether anything comes from that pursuit
or not (Ex happiness, health, self-respect)
7. Instrumental Value:
Answer: Quality by which the pursuit of one's value is a good way to reach another value (Ex money is valued for what it can
buy rather than for itself)
8. Value Conflicts:
Answer: - Impact of a value system on individuals is how much their daily lives are influenced by those values
- Occur when one is presented with a situation that places one's value system in direct conflict with an action
- Personal Value System: Specific choices and responses to a situation by an individual
9. The Golden Rule:
Answer: - Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- Problem with the rule is the assumption that others would follow the same principles as one would do
10. Ethical Theories:
Answer: Virtue Ethics, Utilitarianism, Universal Ethics
11. Virtue Ethics:
Answer: - Living one's life according to a commitment to the achievement of a clear ideal
- Criticism: societies can place ditterent emphasis on ditterent virtues
, 12. Utilitarianism: -
Answer: Ethical choices that otter the greatest good for the greatest number of people
- Criticism: idea that the ends justify the means
13. Universal Ethics: -
Answer: Actions that are taken out of duty and obligation to a purely moral idea rather than based on the needs of the situation
(Universal principles are seen to apply to everyone, everywhere, all the time)
- Criticism: Reverse of the weakness in ethics for the greater good
14. Ethical Relativism:
Answer: Traditions of one's society, one's personal opinions, and the circumstances of the present moment define
one's ethical principles
- Implies some degree of flexibility as opposed to strict black and white rules
- Otters the comfort of being a part of the ethical majority in the community or society
15. Ethical Dilemmas:
Answer: - Situations where there are no obvious right or wrong decisions, but rather a right or right answer
- Occurs when the decision one must make requires one to make a right choice knowing full well that one is: leaving an equally right
choice undone or likely to sutter something bad as a result of that choice
- Contracting a personal ethical principle in making that choice
