Exam 1: Ethics and the Examined Life

The ultimate purpose of doing normative ethics is to establish the soundness of moral norms,especially the norms embodied in a comprehensive moral system.

Applied ethics involves the application of moral norms to specific moral issues or cases.

The principle of universalizability states that a moral principle or rule that applies in one situation must apply in all other situations that are relevantly similar.

The application of moral norms to specific moral issues or cases is known as:

The scientific study of moral beliefs and practices is known as _______ ethics.

Another term for ethics is moral philosophy

Normative ethics is the study of the principles,rules,or theories that guide our actions and judgments.

Something that is valuable in itself,rather than as a means to something else,is ________ valuable.

Religious believers have no need to do ethics.

Morality and ethics are different terms for the same thing.

Things that are valuable because they are a means to something else are said to be:

Morality is:

Philosophers distinguish three major divisions in ethics:

There are never any good reasons for treating someone differently from the way we treat others.

Many great religious thinkers have relied on reason to understand the truths of morality.

The idea that something is right only if God wills it to be so is known as:

All major religious thinkers have accepted the divine command theory.

Morality is both accessible and meaningful to us whether we are religious or not.

Racial discrimination violates the principle of impartiality.

Ethics is the scientific study of morality.