Ethics

Question 1

Main point of ethics

Answer 1

Right vs. wrong

Question 2

Where does the word ethics come from

Answer 2

Greece

Question 3

What does ethos mean

Answer 3

Custom

Question 4

What is the word for ethics in Latin

Answer 4

Mores

Question 5

What does mores mean

Answer 5

Morality

Question 6

Ethical constitution of a human act

Answer 6

Knowledge
Voluntariness
Freedom

Question 7

Ethics for Socrates

Answer 7

Good life only if men have knowledge. If he knows what is good, he will always act to achieve that good. Evil is from ignorance

Question 8

Plato on ethics

Answer 8

Good is an intellectual task. Goodness is a form that is eternal and not known by the senses. Not all men have capacity to gain knowledge.

Question 9

Aristotle on ethics

Answer 9

What is good and how ought men to act. Humans are part of the animal world. We are rational animals. The good life is conducted under reason. Man is also social.

Question 10

Greek word for pleasure

Answer 10

Hedone

Question 11

Hedonism

Answer 11

Pleasure is the only good. Only goods are of the moment. Live moderately but pleasantly.

Question 12

Founder of stoicism

Answer 12

Zeno

Question 13

Augustine on ethics

Answer 13

Man is a deprived creature who needs the help of God.

Question 14

What else is conscience sometimes called

Answer 14

The voice of God

Question 15

Direct killing of an inopnocent

Answer 15

Murder

Question 16

Direct killing of oneself

Answer 16

Suicide

Question 17

Giving of painless death to one suffering from an incurable or agonizing disorder

Answer 17

Mercy killing

Question 18

Expulsion of a non viable fetus that involves killing

Answer 18

Abortion

Question 19

Conditions to self defense

Answer 19

Motive must be self defense

Force only used during time of attack

Force in,y used when u can’t repel the attack