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Question 1

What is Ethics?

Answer 1

Branch of Philosophy dealing with moral principles, values, and code of conduct that guide individuals.

Question 2

What does the term ‘Ethos’ mean?

Answer 2

Means habit or custom (Greek word of Ethics).

Question 3

What are the two kinds of Habit?

Answer 3

• Repetitive Good Action
• Repetitive Bad Action

Question 4

What is Human Positive Law?

Answer 4

Laws that are against divine law.

Question 5

What is Divine Law also known as?

Answer 5

The Ten Commandments.

Question 6

List examples of Ethics.

Answer 6

• Respect others
• Responsibility
• Fairness
• Be loving
• Compassion
• Charity
• Equality

Question 7

Define Moral.

Answer 7

Personal beliefs about what is wrong and right; subjective.

Question 8

What is Morality based on?

Answer 8

A person’s own values and feelings.

Question 9

What does the term ‘Mores’ refer to?

Answer 9

The action of bad or good; morality.

Question 10

What is the focus of the study of Ethics?

Answer 10

• Spiritual Aspect
• Intellectual Aspect
• Physical Aspect
• Political Aspect
• Economic Aspect
• Emotional Aspect
• Social Aspect

Question 11

What does ‘The Art of Correct Living’ provide?

Answer 11

Order and harmony in an artwork and in our lives.

Question 12

What do Filipino beliefs emphasize regarding moral integrity?

Answer 12

Essential to life.

Question 13

How does Ethics relate to Religion?

Answer 13

Ethics is a science relying on reason; teaches values representing duty towards the Supreme Being.

Question 14

What is the difference between legal and moral norms?

Answer 14

What is legal is not necessarily moral.

Question 15

What does the Atheistic Approach assume?

Answer 15

Only matter exists; morality is an invention of man.

Question 16

What does the Theistic Approach assume?

Answer 16

God is the Supreme Lawgiver; morality is based on absolute principles.

Question 17

What are General Ethics?

Answer 17

Principles of morality.

Question 18

What are Special Ethics?

Answer 18

Application of the principles of General Ethics.

Question 19

What is Medical Ethics concerned with?

Answer 19

How doctors and nurses make ethical decisions.

Question 20

What are the three characteristics that reveal man’s moral nature?

Answer 20

• Ability to distinguish between good and evil
• Obligation to do good and avoid evil
• Accountability for actions

Question 21

What does the term ‘Prosophon’ mean in an ethnological context?

Answer 21

A mask worn by stage actors.

Question 22

Define Personality.

Answer 22

Combination of traits, behaviors, and emotional tendencies defining interaction with the world.

Question 23

What does Character refer to?

Answer 23

Set of moral qualities, virtues, and traits defining ethical behavior.

Question 24

What is Moral Character?

Answer 24

Set of qualities and virtues that define how a person behaves regarding right and wrong.

Question 25

What are the types of kindness?

Answer 25

* Materialistic * Time * Service * Touching * Word affirmation

Question 26

What does the Social Dimension of the Person refer to?

Answer 26

Ways relationships help understand the impact of actions on others.

Question 27

What is the definition of a Human Act?

Answer 27

Action that one decides upon.

Question 28

What are the three elements of a Human Act?

Answer 28

* Knowingly * Freely * Willfully

Question 29

What distinguishes Moral acts?

Answer 29

Follow the standard of morality and are acceptable to society.

Question 30

What are Intrinsically Evil acts?

Answer 30

Wrongness is part of the nature of such acts.

Question 31

What are Extrinsically Evil acts?

Answer 31

Wrongfulness comes from an outside factor.

Question 32

What is Perfect Voluntariness?

Answer 32

Possession of full knowledge and complete freedom.

Question 33

What is Conditional Voluntariness?

Answer 33

Forced by circumstances to perform an act one would not normally do.

Question 34

Define Moral Accountability.

Answer 34

Human acts are voluntary and accountable acts.

Question 35

What are the modifiers of Human Act?

Answer 35

* Ignorance * Intention * Consent

Question 36

What is the significance of Human Acts?

Answer 36

They express the thought and desire of a person, revealing moral character.

Question 37

What is the Tabula Rasa theory?

Answer 37

Suggests human nature as a blank sheet.

Question 38

What is the definition of ignorance?

Answer 38

The absence of knowledge which a person ought to possess. ## Footnote Ignorance is considered the root of evil because it leads to misunderstanding, poor decisions, and harmful actions, as stated by Socrates.

Question 39

What is Invisible Ignorance?

Answer 39

It renders an act involuntary; a person is not morally liable if not aware of their state of ignorance. ## Footnote This type of ignorance occurs when someone knows something but cannot present it.

Question 40

What is Vincible Ignorance?

Answer 40

It does not destroy, but lessens the voluntariness and corresponding accountability over an act. ## Footnote In this case, the person is aware of their ignorance.

Question 41

What is Affected Ignorance?

Answer 41

Though it decreases voluntariness, it increases the accountability of an act.

Question 42

What is the difference between a mistake and a fault?

Answer 42

Mistake: you did not follow the instructions; Fault: ## Footnote The definition of 'Fault' was not provided in the content.

Question 43

What are passions or concupiscence?

Answer 43

Psychic responses that are tendencies towards desirable objects or away from undesirable objects.

Question 44

What does refinement of emotion refer to?

Answer 44

The superiority of reason over emotion.

Question 45

What is the virtue of temperance?

Answer 45

To have temper or control about something.