Overall Key Terms Flashcards
Applied Ethics
The debates that arise when ethical issues are considered.
Meta-ethics
The debates that arise when the nature of ethics is considered.
Normative ethics
The debates that arise when ethical theories are considered.
Absolutist
An ethical system that believes there exists a standard of right and wrong that is fully and totally binding on all human beings.
Relativist
An ethical system that believes there is no absolute right or wrong.
Deontological
A theory that explores obligation or duty.
Teleological
A theory concerned with the end purpose or goal of an action.
Hexis
A Greek word used by Aristotle for a person’s manner of behaviour.
Akrasia
Incontinent, that is, lacking self-restraint and uncontrolled.
Akrates
One who is weak-willed and overcome by vices.
Enkrates
One who is tempted, but strong, and lives in the mean.
Sophron
One who effortlessly lives according to the mean.
