Lesson 6. Flashcards
What is a moral dilemma?
A moral dilemma is a situation wherein a person is required to make a difficult choice.
What is an expert?
A person who is very knowledgeable about or skilful in a particular area.
How did Terry Waite maintain hope in difficult circumstances?
By having an active mind and exercising faith in God.
What brings courage to Stanley Spencer, and what did he do?
Thinking of relationships that could have been continued gave Stanley Spencer courage. He painted a picture that depicted his dead relatives.
What is the meaning behind Tennyson’s poem?
Tennyson is describing about how difficult it is to understand anything, even a flower, in its entirety. He’s stating that if he could manage to somehow understand the flower fully and perfectly, then he could be able to understand what God and Man is.
What brings courage to the Dalai Lama?
Curiosity.
What is retail therapy?
It is a form of comforting oneself in which you indulge in materialistic desires and purchase a lot of things.
Explain why people cannot be absolutely right.
Absolutely right implies that it cannot be refuted, even by the billions of people in this planet. This is very difficult, as there are many conflicting opinions in the world. No-one can be completely right, as they won’t be able to secure enough evidence to stop the entire world from trying to rebuke the point.
Who is David Attenborough?
He is a humanist expert in the environment, who wants to save it from the threat of global warming.
List the differences between normal dilemmas and moral dilemmas.
Moral dilemmas are different to normal dilemmas, as they are harder to solve, are typically much more complicated and involve deciding between “right” and “wrong”.
