Week 2: Ethical Theory and Critical Thinking

Question 1

What are the two kinds of Ethics?

Answer 1

Descriptive, Prescriptive

Question 2

What is Descriptive Ethics

Answer 2

-describe the state of affairs of a group and what they do about questions of right and wrong
-not judging the rightness or wrongness of these actions, simply describing them in detail to understand the context

Question 3

True or False: Morality Can mean “the view of right and wrong shared by a group of people at a certain time and place.”

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or False: Prescriptive ethics is usually just ethics

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or False: Prescriptive ethics has a justified reasoned explanation

Answer 5

False-judges as good or bad no reason

Question 6

What equals an ethical prescription

Answer 6

foundational concepts (meta-ethics) + facts/evidence/context + a theory

Question 7

Meta-ethics

Answer 7

ethics not about ethical issues (theory, not application

Question 8

True or False: Meta-ethics takes place outside ethics

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What is Realism?

Answer 9

universal ethical Truth (facts) exist outside of the mind (the truth is “real” – hence “realism”)

Question 10

What is Anti-Realism

Answer 10

denies that universal ethical Truth exists. Ethics are subjects or products of humans in certain places and times, and socially-constructed – not objectively real or universal.

Question 11

What does Health Sciences deal with

Answer 11

Matters of fact & matters of value

Question 12

Fact

Answer 12

-What is or is not/what was or will be factually the case

Question 13

Value

Answer 13

What should or should not/what ought or ought not be done

Question 14

True or False: you can disprove value

Answer 14

False

Question 15

True or False: statements of value come with statement of truth or falsity

Answer 15

False

Question 16

Two Varieties of statements of value and what are they

Answer 16

1. Aesthetic (to do with senses)
2. Moral (the value you put on questions and actions in terms of right or wrong)

Question 17

What are Tensions

Answer 17

those disagreements that exist even between people who have the same ethical orientation (they agree on method).