BCPP Test

Question 1

Morals

Answer 1

The actual content of right and wrong

Question 2

Norms

Answer 2

Are sentences meanings with practical, I.e. Action-oriented (rather than descriptive, explanatory, or expressive) import, the most common of which are commands, permissions, and prohibitions. Another popular account of norms describes them as reasons to act, believe or feel.

Question 3

Values

Answer 3

Ideals and beliefs that move us to action, to particular kinds of behaviors and lifestyles. Better used as verb

Question 4

Principles

Answer 4

General foundational perspectives and guidelines for human behavior. They are duties, ideals, responsibilities, and life orientation that are set forth in broad terms. Principles can be imperatives or indicatives, and often they can contain a breadth of application because of their more general nature.

Question 5

Virtue

Answer 5

Habits or inner dispositions to perform acts considered morally and theologically excellent; character traits deemed morally praiseworthy.

Question 6

Character

Answer 6

Basic moral orientation that gives unity, definition, and direction to our lives by forming our habits and intentions into meaningful and predictable patterns that have been determined by our dominant convictions (W.Willimon)

Question 7

Descriptive Ethics

Answer 7

A sociological discipline that attempts to describe the morals of society, often by studying other cultures.

Question 8

Normative Ethics

Answer 8

Refers to the discipline that produces moral norms or rules as its end product. It prescribes moral behavior.

Question 9

Aretaic Ethics

Answer 9

Virtue Theory: Category of ethics that focuses on the virtues produced in people, not the morality of specific acts.

Question 10

Axiology

Answer 10

“What should I value?” Axiology has two major divisions: Ethics applies value to judge human behavior; Aesthetic: applies values to judge what is beautiful

Question 11

Philosophical Ethics

Answer 11

The project of integrating meta ethics and normative ethics in a systematic way, trying to gain insight into what is valuable and obligatory (normatively) by understanding what value and obligation are (metaethically).

Question 12

Metaethics

Answer 12

Investigates the meaning of moral language, or the epistemology of ethics, and also considers the justification of ethical theories and judgments. Focuses on the meaning of the major terms used in ethics such as: right, good, and just.

Question 13

Objective Ethics

Answer 13

“Absolute ethics” affirms that a deed is either moral or not, regardless of human opinion, guided by norms and principles.

Question 14

Subjective Ethics

Answer 14

Assert that an ethical choice is up to the individual or culture

Question 15

Motive

Answer 15

Is the emotion or motivational factor which drives someone to act in a situation.

Question 16

End

Answer 16

Is the desired result of the act

Question 17

Means

Answer 17

Is the method one goes about achieving his/her end.

Question 18

Consequences

Answer 18

Are what actually happen as a result of the act.

Question 19

Divine Command Ethics

Answer 19

System in which the ultimate foundation for morality is the revealed will of God, namely, the commands of God found in Scripture.

Question 20

Natural Law

Answer 20

Refers to universal moral principles that are not specifically derived from special revelation (as with observations from nature)

Question 21

Worldview

Answer 21

Basic fundamental attitude toward and understanding of ultimate reality.

Question 22

Categorical Imperative

Answer 22

(Immanuel Kant) - would denote an absolute, unconditional requirements that exerts its authority in all circumstances, both required and justified as an end in itself. It is best known in its first formulation: “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become universal law.”

Question 23

Cognitivists

Answer 23

Hold that moral statements do express beliefs and that they are apt for truth and falsity. But cognitivism need not be a species of realism since a cognitivist can be an error theorist and think all moral statements false.

Question 24

Non-cognitivists

Answer 24

Agree with error theorists that there are no moral properties or moral facts. But rather than thinking that this makes moral statements false, non-cognitivists claim that moral statements are not in the business of predicting properties or making statements which could be true or false in any substantial sense. Roughly put, non-cognitivists think that moral statements have no truth conditions. Rather they are expressing non-cognitive attitudes more similar to desires, approval or disapproval.

Question 25

Ethics

Answer 25

Process of determining right and wrong.

Christian Ethics: The expression of integral conduct and character that glorifies God, practices biblical faith, values moral truth, and reflects the virtues intrinsic to a relationship with God the Father, Jesus, and through the Holy Spirit.