Week 1 Foundations of Ethics

Question 1

The branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness or wrongness of certain actions and the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions

Answer 1

Ethics

Question 2

The set of values, ideas, and opinions of an individual or a group

Answer 2

Philosophy

Question 3

A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: sacred beliefs, emotional feelings accompanying these beliefs, and overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings

Answer 3

Religion

Question 4

The branch of moral philosophy in which ethics is based solely on human faculties such as logic, empathy, reason, or moral intuition and not derived from belief in supernatural revelation or guidance; the source of ethics in many religions

Answer 4

Secularism

Question 5

A system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship

Answer 5

Secularism

Question 6

Beliefs held in high esteem; tell us what’s good – they’re the things we strive for, desire and seek to protect

Answer 6

Values

Question 7

A rule of ethical conduct found in some form in most major religions usually phrased, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Answer 7

Golden Rule

Question 8

A category of philosophy that determines what an individual believes about morality and right and wrong

Answer 8

Personal Ethics

Question 9

Moral principles that vary with circumstance

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Situational Ethics

Question 10

Values related to human conduct as applied to a business

Answer 10

Business Ethics

Question 11

Rules that govern society

Answer 11

Laws