Ethics Unit 4 Review (Fall 2020)

Philosophy has four major branches.  Which branch would inquire into the nature of unseen reality with questions such as, “What is time?” or  “Does an unseen spiritual realm surround us?”

• Metaphysics

• Epistemology

• Ethics

• Logic

Epistemology is concerned with the study of:

• 1. Right and wrong (strictly in terms of morality)

• 1. The nature of unseen reality

• 1. Arguments and their structure

• 1. How we come to understand information as "true knowledge".

If you evaluate how the Categorical Imperative applies to the decision to buy an SUV, you are doing _ Ethics.

• Normative

• Meta

• Applied

Deontology, Virtue Ethics, and Consequentialism are all abstract theories that provide specific definitions of right and wrong. What aspect of ethics would they fit under?

• Applied Ethics

• Normative Ethics

• Metaethics

Metaethics

• Does not define right and wrong but instead asks, "What is morality to begin with?"

• Provides theories that define right and wrong.

• asks "how does this theory apply to a real-life situation?"

_ is the father of Deontology (write their last name only).

Choose the central factor that a deontologist would use as a guide for a moral decision.

• Authority

• Duty

• Consequence

• Personal Feelings

What does deontology consider to be the basis of all knowledge about what is right?

• Eudaimonia

• Pure practical reason

• Hedonism

• A posteriori

Would I want this action to become a universal law? Does this action treat people as rational ends?

What deontological thought experiment asks these two questions?

Which statement below best describes deontological ethics?

• “I didn’t study for my final, but it’s not OK for everyone to cheat; therefore, I will not cheat.”

• 1. “I didn’t study for my final. I’d cheat, but I don’t want to get caught and fail, so I won’t.”

• 1. “I didn’t study for the final, so I am going to cheat.”

• 1. “I didn’t study for the final. I could cheat, but that is dishonest, and I want my teacher to like me.”