Chapter 1

Question 1

The word ethics comes from the Greek ethos means

Answer 1

customs or habits.

Question 2

Ethics is also often called

Answer 2

moral philosophy.

Question 3

The word moral is from the Latin mores means

Answer 3

customs or habits.

Question 4

______ means the science of customs or habits of society.

Answer 4

Ethics

Question 5

_________ refers to customs, ethics extend to mean habitual conduct or character.

Answer 5

Morals or morality

Question 6

Morality deals with our _______ and ethics with our _______.

Answer 6

1 doing
2 reasoning

Question 7

‘the science of rightness and wrongness of character and conduct.’

Answer 7

Ethics

Question 8

2 Types of Ethics

Answer 8

1 Normative ethics
2 Metaethics

Question 9

question the good or bad of an action.

Answer 9

Normative ethics

Question 10

dig into the morality of ethical claims.

Answer 10

Metaethics

Question 11

Normative ethics or Metaethics

Is it wrong to kill one person to save many lives?

Answer 11

Normative ethics

Question 12

Normative ethics or Metaethics

It is wrong to kill.

Answer 12

Metaethics

Question 13

True or False
The Learning of ethics does not guarantee morality on the part of the person’s concrete and practical conduct and behavior.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

True or False
Morality provides certain principles guidelines as to what is good and bad, right and wrong in human conduct.

Answer 14

False: Ethics

Question 15

True or False
Morality is the study of CHOICES people make regarding right and wrong, good or bad since many of us face several ethical choices in the course of our lives.

Answer 15

False: Ethics

Question 16

True or False
Ethics is not purely intellectual exercise

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False
Knowing what is right without changing the way we believe morally is useless knowledge.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Is legality is identical with morality?

Answer 18

No.
legality is not identical with morality.
What is legal is not always moral. At other times, what is moral is not always legal.

Question 19

Difference between Ethics and religion?

Answer 19

Ethics as a philosophical discipline solely relies on natural reason, logic and experience.

Religion on the other hand, relies primarily and mainly on supernatural reason, that is divine revelation of divine authority.

Question 20

Material Object of Ethics is the __________

Answer 20

Human Conduct or Human Act.

Question 21

Formal Object of ethics in its investigation is the

Answer 21

morality or the moral rectitude of human act or human conduct.

Question 22

Divisions of Ethics (2)

Answer 22

1 General Ethics
2 Special or Applied Ethics

Question 23

mainly deals with the morality of human acts and specific determinants of morality.

Answer 23

General Ethics

Question 24

essentially applies the specific and fundamental norms and principles of General Ethics in various specific areas of human life and activity, both in the individual and social domain.

Answer 24

Special or Applied Ethics

Question 25

This norm has to do with survival, health and well-being.

Answer 25

Technical Norm

Question 26

in need for group cohesion and for strengthening the bond that keeps the community together.

Answer 26

Societal Norm

Question 27

Refers to typical perceptual forms like color, shape, movement, sound, feeling, emotion, and even touch.

Answer 27

Aesthetic Norm

Question 28

Refers to the ideal vision of an ideal stage or perfection of serves as the ultimate goal and norm.

Answer 28

Ethical or Moral Norm

Question 29

What are the Kinds of Valuation and Types of Norms (4)

Answer 29

1 Technical Norm
2 Societal Norm
3 Aesthetic Norm
4 Ethical or Moral Norm

Question 30

What kind of norm?
Right way of Planting rice.

Answer 30

Technical Norm

Question 31

What kind of Norm?
The Taste of Chicken Adobo is very good.

Answer 31

Aesthetic Norm

Question 32

What kind of norm?
In our community, we practiced “Mano po.”

Answer 32

Ethical or Moral Norm

Question 33

What kind of Norm?
Knock first before you open the door.

Answer 33

Societal Norm

Question 34

What are the Characteristics of Moral Principles (8)

Answer 34

1 Reasonability
2 Impartiality
3 Prescriptivity
4 Overridingness
5 Autonomous from Arbitrary Authority
6 Publicity
7 Practicability
8 Universalizability

Question 35

Moral standards must be supreme from all other standards.

Answer 35

Overridingness

Question 36

Practical, or action- guiding nature morality, commanding aspect.

Answer 36

Prescriptivity

Question 37

An ethical and moral rule is supposed to apply to everyone regardless of status.

Answer 37

Impartiality

Question 38

Primarily judgments must be backed by good reasons.

Answer 38

Reasonability

Question 39

Moral rule or principle must be applicable to everyone, without exception, provided of course that all people are in a relevantly similar situation or context.

Answer 39

Universalizability

Question 40

Moral rules should not be impossible to achieve or else they are not for men but for angels.

Answer 40

Practicability

Question 41

Moral rules and principles must be made public if they are to serve as clear guidelines to our actions.

Answer 41

Publicity

Question 42

Moral standards should stand on their own logic independent of the arbitrariness of the majority.

Answer 42

Autonomous from Arbitrary Authority -