(P) Part I: The Moral Agent Flashcards
quality that some people have more than others; depends on some factors like status, class, education, taste in music or film, and speech habits
Culture
Sometimes, people visit places like museums or art galleries to increase their so called ________
Cultural awareness
used to denote that which is related to the arts
and humanities
Culture
cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience,
beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies,
religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations,
concepts of the universe and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving
Culture
consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups,
Culture
sum total of the learned behavior of a group of
people that are generally considered to be the
tradition of that people and are transmitted from generation to generation
Culture
cultivated behavior in its broadest sense; that is, the totality of a person’s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning
Culture
cultivated behavior in its broadest sense; that is, the totality of a person’s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, or more briefly, behavior through social learning
Culture
the process by which individuals acquire
knowledge from others in the groups to which
they belong, as a normal part of childhood
Social learning
The process by which infants and children
socially learn the culture, including morality, of
those around them
Enculturation or socialization
They say that there are nothing but just social
conventions
Moral laws
those things agreed upon
by people like through their authorities
Convention
usual or customary ways
through which things are done within a
group
Convention
means positive development or
development toward achieving a goal or
reaching a higher standard
Progress
Refers to not just changing, but
changing for the better
Moral progress
people who tried to
change the moral ideas of their own age for
the better; people who understood morality
better than others did.
Reformers or Pioners
when one says
that a particular action “ought” or “ought not” to be done, he/she is not simply echoing social
approval or disapproval.
Social conditioning theory
perhaps the most famous
form of moral relativism, a theory in ethics
which holds that ethical judgments have their
origins either in individual or cultural
standards.
Cultural relativism
