unit 1 DEFINITIONS

Question 1

End

Answer 1

the goal

Question 2

Means

Answer 2

how we acheive the end (the goal)

Question 3

Absolutism

Answer 3

one single universal standard (whats a moral duty for me must be a moral duty for you)

Question 4

Relativism

Answer 4

opposite of absolutism, denies that theres one single universal standard (whatever you think is right fro you)

Question 5

Ethics

Answer 5

what you should do (ends)

Question 6

Morality

Answer 6

what you would do (means/end goal- how you’re getting it)

Question 7

Teleology

Question 8

Deontology

Question 9

Human Excellence

Question 10

The Mean

Answer 10

to avoid too much or too little

Question 11

Magisterium

Answer 11

official teaching of the
Church, done by popes and bishops (guides moral thinking?)

Question 12

Conscience

Answer 12

judgement of reason (our awareness that theres right and wrong)

Question 13

Bystander Effect

Answer 13

responsibility is diffuesed amoung large crowd, no one feels responsible to act

Question 14

Free Will

Answer 14

internal freedom; freedom to act

Question 15

Freedom

Answer 15

external freedom; freedom of choice. the capacity to choose and to
act. I am free because I have possibilities and capacities to act on these possibilities.