Intro To Ethics

Question 1

What are branches of of philosophy ?

Answer 1

Epistemology: the study of knowledge and belief

Methaphics: after physics what is real

Aeasthetic: what is beauty

Ethics: what is good

*all overlap

Question 2

What is ethics?

Answer 2

The study of moral decisions

Question 3

What is morality?

Answer 3

The realm of decisions making

Question 4

Value?

Answer 4

A moral principle

Question 5

Immoral?

Answer 5

An action that is judged to be bad

Question 6

Non-moral?

Answer 6

An action that is unrelated to morality

Question 7

Ammoral?

Answer 7

An action that is different to morality

Question 8

What are the types of statements?

Answer 8

Descriptive and normative

Question 9

What is a normative statement ?

Exp.

Answer 9

A normative statement:
Ethical statements are normative:
They are values judgements about the goodness of some action

We should reinstate the death penalty

Question 10

What is a descriptive statement ?

Exp.

Answer 10

Descriptive statements: describes people’s moral beliefs, claims

There are 30 desks in the classroom
Trump was the cause of the rise
Killing is a crime

Question 11

False or true do morality and law inform each other

Answer 11

True : morality and law do inform one another

Question 12

Are morality action are always legal and concide?

Answer 12

False: or moral action can not be legal or vice versa

Illegal but not immoral

.turning right on Ted light ..illegal
Jaying walk
Not paying parking

Immoral but not illegal

Slapping something with hands

Question 13

D or N?

Religious teach people the difference between right and wrong ?

Answer 13

Descriptive claim

Question 14

N or D

Seventy five per cent of candidate think that abortion should be legal

Answer 14

Descriptive

Not making a judgement

Question 15

Canada should reinstate the death penalty

N or D?

Answer 15

Normative

Question 16

The death penalty is an effective way of preventing criminals from reoffending

Answer 16

Descriptive

Question 17

The death penalty is an effective deterrent of crime

N or D

Answer 17

Descriptive

Question 18

Cheating on a test is morally permissible as long of you don’t get caught

D or n?

Answer 18

Normative

As long if you don’t get caught

Question 19

The best The best societies are those which street their adult elderly citizens with the most respect and care

Answer 19

Normative

Question 20

About half of marriages will end in divorce

D or n?

Answer 20

Descriptive

Question 21

It’s ok to steal food, but only if you need it to survive

Do or n

Answer 21

Normative

Question 22

We are never to lie to another person, even if the truth will cause great pain and suffering

Answer 22

Normative