UNIT 1: OTHER MODEL OF MORAL THEORIES

Question 1

claims that the goodness or badness of human acts is based on authority

Answer 1

authoritarian ethics

Question 2

focuses on the fulfillment or the maximum realization of human
potentials or capacities

Answer 2

self-realization ethics

Question 3

who popularized pragmatism

Answer 3

william james

Question 4

and is also known as
American ethics. It claims that the morality is not categorical but relative; that is, if an act works well then, it is good; if not, then it is bad or immoral

Answer 4

pragmatism

Question 5

what is good or bad to a particular culture is applicable
only for persons possessing or living in that culture

Answer 5

cultural relativism

Question 6

• focuses on equal distribution of goods and services and of society’s burdens
• preaches universal brotherhood of man

Answer 6

communist ethics

Question 7

claims that the ultimate good of man is power

Answer 7

power ethics

Question 8

founder of power ethics moral movement

Answer 8

friedrich nietzsche

Question 9

focuses on the distribution of goods based on individual contributions to the
economic pool of society

Answer 9

capitalist ethics