Prelim | The Good and Right

Question 1

Has to do with achievement of goals

Answer 1

Good

Question 2

Has to do with laws and rules.

Answer 2

Right

Question 3

Recognizes that people have desires and aspirations

Answer 3

Goodness pradigm

Question 4

Recognizes that people live in
groupsthat require organization and regulations

Answer 4

Rightness paradigm

Question 5

Frames values in terms of what enables a being to achieve its ends.

Answer 5

Goodness pradigm

Question 6

Frames values in terms of duty and conformance to rules

Answer 6

Rightness paradigm

Question 7

What is good has to do with (1). We can think of this instrumentally or biologically

Answer 7

1. benefits

Question 8

What is right has to do with conformance to (1) or (2).

Answer 8

1. rules
2. regulations

Question 9

Right: Correct, truthful, as in “—.”

Answer 9

the right answee

Question 10

Right: Best possible option or a very good option, as in “—.”

Answer 10

the right choice

Question 11

Right: Fitting, (1), (2) with the way things are.

Answer 11

1. appropriate
2. in harmony

Question 12

What the speaker approves of or assumes people generally approve of. This is an uncritical usage and is the least useful.

Answer 12

Right

Question 13

Goodness and rightness are not complementary portions of the moral field but alternative ways of (1) the whole field to carry out the tasks of (2).

Answer 13

1. organizing
2. morality

Question 14

If someone says something is good, one can always ask “(1)” If someone says something is right, one can always ask “(2)”
The two domains of discourse really are separate, and it is not useful to mix them.

Answer 14

1. good for what?
2. according to what rule?

Question 15

These are not just sufficient but rather necessary to social beings in the promotion of the common good in every society.

Answer 15

Rules

Question 16

Making the distinction between good and right is important because it promotes (1) and
allows an individual to (2) and understand why rules have to be followed.

Answer 16

1. clarity of thought
2. assess oneself

Question 17

Principles, norms or models an individual or a group has about what is right or wrong, what is good or bad.

Answer 17

Moral standards

Question 18

It is an indication of how human beings ought to exercise their freedom.

Answer 18

Moral standards

Question 19

These are expressed as general rules about our actions or behaviors

Answer 19

Norms

Question 20

Normally promote the good that is the welfare and well-being of humans as well as animals and environment

Answer 20

Moral standards

Question 21

Moral standards are a combination of what?

Answer 21

Norms and values

Question 22

They point us towards achievable ideals

Answer 22

Moral standards as norms and values

Question 23

What moral standards do?
1. It promotes (a) or well-being;
2. It promotes the “(b)” (animals, environment, and future generations)
3. It prescribes what humans ought to do in terms of (c) i.e. responsibilities to society and (d) i.e. specific values/virtues

Answer 23

a. human welfare
b. good
c. Rights
d. Obligations

Question 24

General rules about actions or behavior (ex. Killing innocent people)

Answer 24

Norms

Question 25

Enduring beliefs about what is good and desirable or nor (ex. Helping the poor)

Answer 25

Values