Intro to Ethics

THE FOUR BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY

Match the following branches of philosophy to the questions they ask

• What is the nature of reality? For ex: what is time? Is there a spiritual realm?

• Logic

• What is the structure of a good argument?

• Ethics

• How do we address questions of right and wrong?

• Metaphysics

• What is knowledge? How do we gain it? What are its limits?

• Epistemology

Ethics is one of the four branches of philosophy. Ethics can be further divided into into two kinds. One of the kinds is called

_ ethics (which discusses WHAT IS, in relation to human behavior)

Ethics is one of the four branches of philosophy. Ethics can be further divided into into two kinds. One of the other kinds is called _ philosophy (which discusses WHAT SHOULD BE in relation to human behavior)

Moral Philosophy is the type of Ethics that describes how we SHOULD behave. It has three divisions. Match the division of moral philosophy to its correct description.

• The foundational ideas that underlie a given ethical theory.

• Applied Ethics

• The lived experience of ethical theories in a particular context.

• Normative Ethics

• Already established ethical theories that we use to guide our actions.

• Metaethics

An anthropologist writes a report on the ethical norms of a society in the Amazon rain forest. What kind of ethics is this?

• Descriptive Ethics

• Moral Philosophy

What is the best description of the critical reasoning that is involved in doing Ethics?

• Following one's true feelings

• Consulting the law of the land

• Re-examining right and wrong as we face new situations

• Observing the norms of those around us

A student wants a dog so that they have an excuse to talk with their crush who also owns a dog. For this student, the dog has what kind of value and why?

• Instrumental Value: The dog has value for what it is and not for what the student can get from it.

• Instrumental Value: The dog has value based on what it can do for the student

• Intrinsic Value: The dog has value based on what it can do for the student

• Intrinsic Value: The dog has value for what it is and not for what the student can get from it.

Socrates and Glaucon discuss the following question in the Ring of Gyges Dialogue:

• Is it worth it to get a formal education?

• Does religion add value to your life?

• Should you be moral if you REALLY don't have to be?

• Should we punish those who cheat?

In the Ring of Gyges dialogue, who takes the position that without laws, all people would naturally act out of corrupt self interest?

• Glaucon

• Socrates

In Transcendentalism, moral values are (choose all that apply):

• Objective

• Universal

• Based on lived experience

• subjective