Ethics (p. 1-2)

Question 1

‘Ethike’

Answer 1

Greek - habit/behaviour

Question 2

Ethics

Answer 2

examines guiding principles that direct an action

Question 3

Meta-ethics

Answer 3

study of the nature of ethical thinking (‘ethics of ethics’)

Question 4

Normative ethics

Answer 4

study of principles underlying a specific theory

Question 5

Applied ethics

Answer 5

considers debates that arise when normative ethical theories are applied to moral issues (e.g. animal experimentation)

Question 6

Absolutist

Answer 6

belief in a standard of right/wrong

(!) fully binding to all humans

Question 7

Relativist

Answer 7

no absolute right/wrong

Question 8

Subjective

Answer 8

ethical system dependent upon a personal view

Question 9

Objective

Answer 9

ethical system independent of a personal view

Question 10

Consequentialism

Answer 10

considers consequences of an action

(!) Utilitarianism - consequentialist

Question 11

Teleological

Answer 11

consequences produced determine rightness/wrongness of action

(!) qualifies as consequentialist
(!) Teleological Greek for ‘duty’/’obligation’

Question 12

‘Summa Theologica’

Answer 12

Work of St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

Question 13

‘NiComachean’ ethics

Answer 13

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

Question 14

‘On The Republic’

Answer 14

Cicero (106-43 BCE)

Question 15

‘Proportionalism’

Answer 15

Bernard Hoose (1987)

Question 16

“True law is right reason in agreement with nature. It is applied universally and is..

Answer 16

unchanging and everlasting… one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and rule, that is God.” - Cicero