Intro to Philosophy - Ethics & Morality
Exam Question & Answers 2025
What is ethics/moral philosophy? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅The rightness and wrongness of human actions.
What are the main three areas of moral philosophy? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✅1. Applied ethics
2. Normative ethics
3. Metaethics
What is applied ethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅The
philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of
particular issues in private and public life. Asks: "what is
the moral status of this type of action?"
Examples: same-sex marriage, abortion, illegal
immigration, gun control, embryonic stem cell research,
drug legalization
What is normative ethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅What makes right acts right and wrong acts wrong
What is metaethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Discerning the fundamental nature of morality; is it
possible to know what makes an act right or wrong? What
is the ultimate ground of moral values?
, Intro to Philosophy - Ethics & Morality
Exam Question & Answers 2025
What are the metaethical views? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅- Moral realism: morality is objective; there are certain
moral truths that apply everywhere
- Moral relativism: an action is right or wrong only relative
to a set of values
- Social contract: correct moral principles are those that
people would agree to if they were behaving rationally;
advantageous to each person involved
What are moral theories? How many main moral theories
are there? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅Moral theories are
frameworks for understanding and explaining what makes
a certain action right or wrong.
Two basic theories: morality is relative, morality is
universal
What are the 'morality is relative' theories? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅1. Ethical subjectivism: morality is
nothing more than personal opinion or feelings
2. Cultural relativism: it looks to public opinion and
customs for moral standards
True or False?
Exam Question & Answers 2025
What is ethics/moral philosophy? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅The rightness and wrongness of human actions.
What are the main three areas of moral philosophy? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✅1. Applied ethics
2. Normative ethics
3. Metaethics
What is applied ethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅The
philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of
particular issues in private and public life. Asks: "what is
the moral status of this type of action?"
Examples: same-sex marriage, abortion, illegal
immigration, gun control, embryonic stem cell research,
drug legalization
What is normative ethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅What makes right acts right and wrong acts wrong
What is metaethics? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Discerning the fundamental nature of morality; is it
possible to know what makes an act right or wrong? What
is the ultimate ground of moral values?
, Intro to Philosophy - Ethics & Morality
Exam Question & Answers 2025
What are the metaethical views? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅- Moral realism: morality is objective; there are certain
moral truths that apply everywhere
- Moral relativism: an action is right or wrong only relative
to a set of values
- Social contract: correct moral principles are those that
people would agree to if they were behaving rationally;
advantageous to each person involved
What are moral theories? How many main moral theories
are there? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅Moral theories are
frameworks for understanding and explaining what makes
a certain action right or wrong.
Two basic theories: morality is relative, morality is
universal
What are the 'morality is relative' theories? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅1. Ethical subjectivism: morality is
nothing more than personal opinion or feelings
2. Cultural relativism: it looks to public opinion and
customs for moral standards
True or False?
