Test #1 Review

What does critical & ethical reasoning help us to decide upon?

• Decisions of Morality, Living a Life, and Shared Goodness

• Decisions of Good and Evil

• Theological Decisions about the existence of God

• Only helps us with kindness to others

What happens if we do not have a strong grasp of our own ethics?

• We intrinsically know our own moral beliefs.

• We tend to become isolated from those around us.

• It undermines our personal freedoms and capacities.

• If we do not think about ethics, we will never have to make ethical decisions.

Where do we get our ethics from?

• We are born ethical.

• Only from our parents and our friends.

• Only from schooling and books.

• From many different places, like our parents, peers, media, etc.

What subfield of ethics is the main focus of this course?

• Normative Ethics: the study of how we should act (morally)

• Descriptive Ethics: the study of people's beliefs about morality

• Metaethics: the study of the foundation of moral values.

• Applied Ethics: The application of ethics to real-world problems.

Which of the following have moral value?

• Money.

• People.

• Technology.

• Education.

Which of the following have intrinsic value?

• Technology & Money.

• Love & Chocolates.

• Happiness & Empathy.

• Education & Books.

What does the "preeminence of reason" suggest?

• Reason should not only be the biggest part of our ethics, but it should be the entirety of our ethics.

• Reason should be taken at the same weight as emotions.

• Reason is the last thing we should consider in ethics.

• All of our ethics must be informed by reason.

What is the "principle of universality" mean?

• Everyone needs to be treated equally in moral decisions.

• Moral statements that apply in one situation must apply across all similar situations.

• Ethics must be the same across the entire world.

• Ethics come from the universe as an intrinsic understanding, and should guide our actions.

What does the "dominance of moral norms" mean?

• Domination is the most moral of norms - meaning, we should always try to be the best in ethics.

• Legal norms should be the moral code that we stick to above all else.

• Morals norms must be placed as a primary ethical system.

• Moral norms are equal to all other norms, like legal and social norms.

What is the "principle of impartiality"?

• Everyone should be considered and treated equally.

• Our morals should be advised by those we are partial to.

• To be impartial is to be unfair to some and not to others, which is ethically wrong.

• We should be impartial in our ethics above any other principle of ethics.