KEY WORDS IN ALL TOPICS

Question 1

UTILITARIANISM

Answer 1

• Utility: Something useful
• Teleological: Rightness or wrongness of an action decided by the consequence it produces
• Consequentialist: Looks at the consequences of an action
• A posteriori knowledge: Logical deductions made from observations of the empirical word
• Relativist: no set rules
• Hedonism: Pleasure is the highest good

Question 2

SITUATION ETHICS

Question 3

NATURAL LAW

Question 4

KANTIAN ETHICS

Answer 4

• Deontological: Actions can be right or wrong in themselves
• Absolutist: Fixed rules
• A priori: Prior to human knowledge- transcends human experience
• Transcendental idealism: The view that concepts or ideals do exist + have a universal meaning
• Maxim: underlying rule
• Summum bonum: the highest good
• Autonomy: self-ruling
• Good will: having good intentions

Question 5

EUTHANASIA