Moral Relativism

Question 1

This is also known as moral individualism, agent relativism, and subjective relativism.

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Moral Subjectivism

Question 2

This claims that what makes an action right for someone is that it is approved by that person. It claims that moral judgments are always relative to the individual.

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Moral Subjectivism

Question 3

This claims that there are no objective, universal moral truths.

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Moral subjectivism

Question 4

This is what makes an action right for the members of a particular culture is that it is approved by that culture.

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Cultural relativism or cultural conventionalism

Question 5

True or False: In cultural relativism, good means socially approved.

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True

Question 6

This is the study of the values and guidelines by which we live, as well as the justification of these values and guidelines. It is the study of morality.

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Moral Philosophy

Question 7

This is a set of norms and principles that govern our actions with respect to each other and which are taken to have a special kind of weight or authority.

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Morality

Question 8

What are the two traditional subdivisions in moral philosophy?

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Normative ethics
Theoretical ethics

Question 9

This is concerned with the study of the values and guidelines by which we live. It also includes the study of moral issues such as euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality, disparities of wealth between nations, international trade and immigration policy, warfare, and global warming.

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Normative ethics

Question 10

This is the application normative ethics.

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Applied ethics

Question 11

This is also known as metaethics, is concerned with the justification of these values and guidelines. These justifications involve skill in moral reasoning and critical thinking.

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Theoretical ethics

Question 12

This is a conceptual framework for explaining a set of facts or concepts. In moral philosophy, it explains why a certain action—such as torturing babies—is wrong and why we ought to act in certain ways and be a certain type of person.

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Theory

Question 13

True or false: Morality and ethics are substantially the same

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True

Question 14

The English philosopher _________ tells us that when people don’t come together to cooperate in an ethical manner, they will have “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” life.

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Thomas Hobbes

Question 15

According to this ethical theory, there are objective, fundamental and universal moral principles at all times, in all places, for all people.

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Moral Realism or Moral Objectivism

Question 16

This ethical theory states that there are no moral standards, moral truths, nor values. Nothing is inherently true or false.

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Moral Nihilism

Question 17

In this ethical theory, involves doubts that human can have knowledge of moral facts, even if they exist. It asks if we can ever truly know what is morally right or wrong.

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Moral Skepticism

Question 18

In this ethical theory, moral statements do not express propositions that can be true or false. Instead, they are expressions of emotional attitudes or prescriptions.

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Moral Non-COgnitivism

Question 19

In this theory, moral truths are constructed by human practices, agreements, or conventions. Morality is a human-made framework, emerging from social processes rather than existing independently.

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Moral Constructionism

Question 20

This is the doctrine that what makes an action right is that God commands it to be done.

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Divine Command Theory or Supernaturalism

Question 21

This is a logic that which draws a conclusion about what ought to be, based on what is.

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Naturalist Fallacy