CHAPTER 1: Lesson 2 - Moral Agent

Question 1

The standards of an individual or group has about what is right and wrong, or good and evil. It is not imposed from outside, but innate and can even be unconscious. It is a complex of concepts and philosophical beliefs by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong.

Answer 1

Morality

Question 2

Refer to a particular principal, usually as informal and general summary of a moral principle, as applied in a given human situation.

Answer 2

Moral

Question 3

Key features of morality

Answer 3

1. People experience a sense of moral of obligation and accountability
2. Moral values and moral absolutes exist
3. Moral law does exist
4. Moral law is known to humans
5. Morality is objective
6. Moral judgments must be supported by reasons

Question 4

A being that is capable of acting with the reference to right and wrong. Can be held responsible for behavior or decisions. An intelligent being who has the power of choosing. And scope to act according to his choice; one to whom the supreme governor has given a cognizable law

Answer 4

Moral agent

Question 5

Is an action which Springs from choice, and is not necessitated either by mental propulsions or external circumstances: intelligent, free, and account able.

Answer 5

Moral action

Question 6

The result of an undeviating and unfailing but blind propulsion

Answer 6

Instinctive action

Question 7

Those certain as instinct, is yet in the fullest sense intelligent and free.

Answer 7

Divine action

Question 8

Must be a living creature, as they must be able to comprehend abstract moral principles and apply them to decision making.

Answer 8

Moral agent

Question 9

These are a must have for a moral agent which allows him to devise plans for achieving his objective’s, two weigh alternatives, and so on.

Answer 9

Self-consciousness, memory, moral principles, other values, and the reasoning faculty

Question 10

Was the first to discuss moral responsibility.

Answer 10

Aristotle

Question 11

Also called law of nature because nearly philosophers thought that generally speaking everybody knows it by nature

Answer 11

moral law