Exam 7: Ethics

What 1973 Supreme Court case ruled that government may not make laws restricting abortions performed during the first six months of pregnancy?

Immanuel Kant said that the only thing in the world that has absolute,unqualified moral value is

What philosopher argues that sexual activities are unnatural and immoral when they deny a basic good without necessity and do so for the sake of sexual pleasure?

Divine command theory is a(n)____ ethical theory.

What view holds that different societies or cultures have different moralities?

Aristotle endorsed:

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

Aristotle developed an early version of virtue ethics.

Aquinas defended the principle of double effect.

Donald Levy believes that sexual acts that cannot result in reproduction are wrong.

Nel Noddings' book Caring agrees with Kant that caring for others must be based on a firm sense of moral obligations and not on feelings.

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

Bentham was a utilitarian.

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

The utilitarian ethics of Bentham and Mill is a version of

What philosopher argues that sexual acts that exclude the possibility of procreation are "unnatural" and therefore morally wrong?

Epicurus was a hedonist.

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

Richard Taylor is

Aristotle argued that (true) ____________________ is based on two people's mutual recognition of the goodness of the other.