ETHICS: Week 3

Question 1

Origin: Derived from societal norms, legal systems, religious doctrines, or cultural traditions.

Answer 1

EXTERNAL AUTHORIRY

Question 2

Origin: Stems from an individual’s values, conscience, and sense of morality.

Answer 2

INTERNAL AUTHORITY

Question 3

_____ refers to a system of rules, regulations, and principles established by a governing authority

Answer 3

LAW

Question 4

multiplicity of _________

Answer 4

RELIGION (FAITH)

Question 5

cultural relativism (aesthetic differences, religious differences, etiquette differences.)

Answer 5

CULTURE

Question 6

______ defines cultural relativism as the position that claims that there is no such thing as objective truth in the realm of morality

Answer 6

JAMES RACHEL (1941-2003)

Question 7

The starting point of _________ is the recognition that the individual thinking person is at the heart of all moral valuations.

Answer 7

SUBJECTIVISM

Question 8

“Human beings are naturally self-centered so all our action are always already motivated by self-interest.

Answer 8

PSYCHOLOGICAL EGOISM

Question 9

We should make our own ends, our own interest, as the single overriding concern.

Answer 9

ETHICAL EGOISM