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Ethics And Morality Flashcards

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are two words which are oftentimes used interchangeably, not just in ordinary discourse and in popular media but also in academic discussions and fora.

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Ethics and morality

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Etymologically, the word “ethics” is derived from the Greek word “______ which can be roughly translated in English as _____ or a particular way and manner of acting and behaving.

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ethos

custom

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custom would also mean here as a form of behavior or character.

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Ethos

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The Latin equivalent for custom is

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Mos or Mores

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deal with the goodness or badness, rightness or wrongness of the human act or human conduct

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both ethics and morality

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“But in ethics, we specifically study ____

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morality

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gives ethics a particular perspective of what to study about that is the rectitude of whether an act is good or bad, right or wrong.

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Morality

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provides with a quality that determines and distinguishes right conduct from wrong conduct”

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Morality

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T or F| “the learning” of ethics- does not actually guarantee morality on the part of the person’s concrete and practical conduct and behavior.

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True

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It has been said that the farthest distance for a person to cross is the distance between…

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the head and the heart.

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(the theory) provides certain principles, and guidelines as to what is good and bad, right and wrong in human conduct

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ethics

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actualizes the theory.

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morality

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Ethics, as one particular author beautifully puts it, is the ‘___’, while morality is the “____’.

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word

flesh

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, therefore, is here aptly understood as the application (praxis) of ethics (theory)

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Morality

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“As_____outlines theories of right and wrong and good or bad actions,_____ translates these theories into real actions. Thus,_____ is nothing else but a doing for the practice] of______”

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ethics

morality

morality

ethics

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serves practice, for each new truth learned is a new reason for a better life”

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Knowledge

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“Knowing what is right without actually changing the way we behave morally is nothing but useless_____.

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knowledge

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“without_______ perception, man
is only an ______. Without morality, man as a rational [and free] being is a_____”

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moral

animal

failure

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The living of the “________” has always been one of mankind’s most noble and enduring pursuits since time immemorial.

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good life

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served as the very foundation of every human society.

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ethics and morality

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Without ethics or at least a sense of morality, of what’s right and wrong, good and bad in relation to their conduct and behavior, people and society in general would naturally and expectedly______.

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deteriorate

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When the_____ foundation of a nation is shaken, and at the brink of collapse, society itself, as its very core, is also threatened - as to its very existence.

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moral

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as a practical science, is the study of the choices people make regarding right and wrong, good and bad, and since many of us face several ethical choices in the course of our lives, it is a given why studying Ethics is of prime importance.

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Ethics

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Big and small, the choices and decisions that we make in our individual and collective lives affect also the kind of life we live to a considerable extent.
Hence, we become good and bad persons through the______ we make.

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choices

25
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The study of_____ can provide us with certain moral paradigms or perspectives that will, in a way, guide us in determining what’s right and what’s wrong under such condition.

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Ethics

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Our ___________should be backed by good and sound arguments.

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moral views

27
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“If you do not have good
[and defensible] reasons for your____________, why should anyone pay attention to them? More important, why should you yourself pay attention to them, if you do not have good reasons for holding them”

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moral opinions

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, as a rational enterprise, will enable us to critically examine the ground and foundation of our moral beliefs and claims, whether they are valid or not.

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Ethics

29
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We are______ beings who cannot help but want to understand the nature of the good life and all that it implies”

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rational

30
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Life’s ultimate questions involve questions regarding the meaning of____ and what it means to be truly human?

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life

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As the great_______ famously said: “An unexamined life is not worth living.
“

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Socrates

32
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are necessary even if we have the laws that are implemented by civil authorities since legality is not identical with morality.

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Ethical rules

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T or F |
At times, what is legal is not always moral. At other times, what is moral is not always legal.

Ethics is not identical with the law.

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True

34
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are only concerned with actions that are usually “public;” actions that in a way often harmed those around us. These types of actions are external ones that society forbids because they are detrimental to the common good or the general public.

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laws

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goes beyond the concern and parameters of law, for it includes human motivations in its investigation._____, in this respect, includes the thoughts and feelings of individuals, not iust their external conduct and actions, and subject them to moral analysis and evaluation.

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Ethics

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includes things that we do that do not directly harm others or even ourselves.

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Morality

37
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Here, our innermost motives and intentions, even if they are not carried out in concrete

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Morality

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are usually the product of a collective agreement of some sort a kind of a social contract where people come together and decide among themselves what’s good and bad.

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laws

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is not all about how many people say that something is good or bad, or of how many individuals favor and decide that a certain act is right or wrong.
______is much deeper than that.

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Morality

40
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serves as the very foundation of our laws.

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ethics

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“[I’t is because of_____… that we have laws in the first place, and we continue to need____ in order to refine and perfect our legal system”

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ethics

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, in a sense, are not morally sensible without ethics.

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laws

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as a ______ discipline, as mentioned, solely relies on(natural reason, logic and experience, especially in the justification and validation of certain theories and principles concerning good and bad.

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Ethics

philosophical

44
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, on the other hand, relies primarily and mainly on _______ reason, that is divine revelation or divine authority:

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Religion

supernatural

45
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;/Ethics is defined as the practical science of the morality of human act or conduct and of the good life.

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Philosophically

46
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As a______, Ethics/is a body of knowledge systematically arranged and presented in such manner that it arrives at its conclusions Coherently and logically.

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science

47
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Ethics as a branch of Philosophy, is also known as

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Moral Philosophy

48
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It] is that branch of philosophy that deals with how we ought to live, with the idea [and the pursuit] of the Good and with concepts as ‘right’ and ‘wrong”

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Ethics/ Moral Philosophy

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As a major area of the philosophical enterprise,____ tries to investigate and examine critically as well as systematically, through the use of natural reason, certain principles and codes of right or wrong, good or bad, particularly those pertaining to human action.

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Ethics

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Ethics as a philosophical discipline, deals with ultimate principles and truth concerning the morality of human conduct through the use of human reason and experience alone, without the aid of______ reason or divine revelation.

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supernatural

51
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, which the science of ethics mainly deals with,

refers to the act that is done by a human person which he/she is conscious of, which proceeds from one’s deliberation and freewill, and thus, for which one is held morally responsible.

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Human conduct

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deals with the human person’s right conduct, whether his/her actions conform to right reason which is the immediate norm of morality.

is that quality in the human act by which it is judged to be good or bad, right or wrong, moral or immoral.

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Ethics

Morality

53
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These sciences merely deal with the way humans actually behave, without telling and judging the rightness and wrongness, goodness and badness of their actions

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science of Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics and the like.

54
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studies how one ought to behave It tries to assess and determine whether the actions are moral and worth doing, or immoral, and have to be avoided.

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Ethics

55
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This makes ethics as a critical _____ and ______ discipline, while the other above mentioned fields are simply_______. They just. deal with the facts as they are and do not make any evaluative judgments on them whatsoever

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normative and prescriptive

descriptive

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