Long Quiz 001 Review

Question 1

It is defined as the “Philosophy of Life”

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Ethics

Question 2

It is a process of internalizing values, judgement, and thought. Morally, it is a transition from what we should do to what is the best thing to do.

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Personal Development

Question 3

Logic is the science of right thinking while ethics is the science of right living. Thinking and Doing things go hand in hand. We cannot move without thinking right the same way. Every action is guided by reason.

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Ethics and Logic

Question 4

The two subjects dealt with the study of man, human nature, and human behavior, but that is where all their similarity ends. Ethics is interested in moral obligation.

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Ethics and Psychology

Question 5

Sociology deals with the study of society as well as the social order that regulates society as a whole. Any society is doomed to fail if devoid of the correct basis of thinking. But then, what is the foundation of their social order if there is no right and wrong, which is Ethics.

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Ethics and Sociology

Question 5

Not everything moral is legal, and not everything legal is moral. Good things do not need legislation and immoral acts that the state may approve.

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Morality and Law

Question 5

Napoleon once said that an army marches on its stomach. In economics, man has to fulfill his economic needs. The need for material wealth is inherent in man that there are instances that economic topics need ethical principles such as capital-labor relations, profit, interests, money, etc.

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Ethics and Economics

Question 5

Man’s constant search for happiness, temporal and eternal, is never ending. Politics and ethics are seen as poles that are apart, and this is the very reason why politics becomes dirty, for they deviate from ethics.

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Ethics and Politics

Question 6

Education, whether formal or informal, is a never-ending process and is the foundation of man’s moral, intellectual, and physical capacities.

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Ethics and Education

Question 6

Ethics is about positive morality, while art is beauty. The purpose of art is for appreciation that contributes to man’s ethics. Beautiful works of art will give a positive outlook to the looker that will be greatly appreciated.

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Ethics and Art

Question 7

Being capable of action, man can employ his bodily activities to perform actions. With man’s intellect, he can discern the good or evilness of his actions and at the same time equate the repercussions of his actions once asked to justify them. Free will is inherent and present in men.

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Man is the only Moral Being

Question 7

Religion is ethics, and ethics is religion. They are interchangeable, for any religious belief tends to ethical standards in relation to his most fundamental tenet. What unites them all boils down to three things: 1. Belief in the supernatural 2. Man’s beginning and end 3. Right living.

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Ethics and Religion

Question 8

Endowed with intellect, man can decide what’s best for him although their desires are the same with brutes such as hunger, thirst, pain, and sensual needs. Man moves based on reason while their lower counterparts have only instinct.

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Man is the highest form of animal

Question 8

When a person acts with full knowledge and complete freedom - we are fully aware of what we are doing

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Perfect voluntariness

Question 9

Ratio is the Latin term for reason, that means man has the power to discern things based on his previous knowledge of things. Unlike brutes, man has the power of abstraction - that is his ability to correlate ideas previously based on his mind as well as his understanding of the situation and hand, thereby giving him a logical or correct decision.

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Man is a rational animal

Question 10

They are correlative with each other because the intellect is the agent of knowing while the will is the agent of choice. From intellect - knowledge is stored, this will then guide the will to decide which is basically “good”

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The intellect and the will

Question 11

When a person acts without full understanding and no freedom - we are made to perform acts we did not like.

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Imperfect voluntariness

Question 12

It is the disposition of a person doing the activity regardless to his liking or not - this may be positive or negative. The former is making another do something while the other prevents him from doing things.

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Simple voluntariness

Question 13

This simply means absence of knowledge.

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Ignorance

Question 13

It is the situation when the person was forced by circumstances or under duress which he would not do under normal circumstances.

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Conditional voluntariness

Question 14

This ignorance can easily be corrected

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Vincible ignorance

Question 15

This ignorance cannot be rectified

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Invincible ignorance

Question 16

The type of ignorance in which the doer of the act escapes responsibility.

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Affected ignorance

Question 17

Psychic responses that may adhere or abhor them to either desirable or undesirable tendencies

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Passions

Question 18

It is the disturbance of the mind when confronted by danger to him/herself or a loved one. Actions done with fear or out of fear may affect one’s action.

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Fear

Question 19

It is physical force given to a free person to coerce him to do or not to do something.

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Violence

Question 20

They are done mechanically that thinking is no longer necessary. May be good or bad.

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Habits

Question 21

To follow human nature, which is the low end of a human being.

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Proximate norm

Question 22

It is the philosophy of pleasure, and that pleasure alone is the primary purpose of man’s existence. Man, desires happiness, but pleasure alone does not make a happy life.

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Hedonism

Question 22

To follow divine nature

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Ultimate norm

Question 23

The end of the action must be good. If it is not, then the action is unjustified.

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Utilitarianism

Question 24

The agent is the one who will gain

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Individual Utilitarianism (Egoism)

Question 25

The society is the one who will gain

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Social Utilitarianism (Altruism)

Question 26

It states that human reason is the only foundation of morality as postulated by German philosopher Immanuel Kant which he dubbed as the “Categorical Imperative”. However, as Kant further explained, we must do good because we ought to be good. He is implying blind obedience.

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Moral Rationalism

Question 27

It states that morality is adherence to State Laws as philosophized by Thomas Hobbes. The State is the foundation of morality since laws are gear toward the common good. An act is moral if he obeys the law and evil if he disobeys it.

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Moral Positivism

Question 28

Morality is ever-changing until it reaches its perfect form. Friedrich Nietzsche added that man was born with hardly any basis for right and wrong, and their collective lives are a never-ending struggle for change until they reach perfection.

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Moral Evolutionism

Question 29

Contrary to Moral Evolutionism, men are born with a special moral sense that is comparable to the five senses.

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Moral Sensism

Question 30

Although an economic theory, its social implication cannot be denied and is geared towards a classless society. They believed in the philosophy of material dialectics, which means two material things are the only things necessary for change.

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Communism