Exam 7: Ethics

____________________ consists of the standards that an individual or a group has about what is right and wrong.

Hume believed that the end of all moral speculations was to teach us our duty.

Aristotle wrote that human beings can be happy only if they fulfill their basic human ____________________. or

Epictetus was a

____________________ ____________________ denies the existence of a single, universally applicable moral standard.

Bentham developed a(n) ____________________ calculus.

Richard Taylor is

The view that only pleasure is worth having for its own sake is

Aquinas defended the principle of double effect.

A consequentialist theory measures the morality of an action by its ____________________ consequences.

Do you believe that a theory of what makes an action right should also provide an account of why we should perform right actions? If you do not, explain what you think the purpose of moral theories is, if they are not intended to motivate persons to do the right thing. If you do think that moral theories should be prescriptive in this sense, choose either (a) Kantian deontology, or (b) utilitarianism, and asses how well their achieve this end.

Basic to the doctrines of Buddhism are the

A theory that measures the morality of an action by its consequences is a

Epicurus was a hedonist.

Carol Gilligan believed that moral development for a woman was marked by progress towards more adequate ways of caring for herself and others.

Who developed the categorical imperative?

____________________ is allowing someone or something else to decide the moral principles that one will follow.

Epictetus was concerned only with appearances.

Bentham was a utilitarian.

John H. Newman believed that knowledge and virtue were the same.