Chapter 1 - Quiz

What is Ethics?

• a branch of knowledge that deals with the moral principles that governs a person’s behavior.

• an act of doing what is right/good

• a system of thoughts or ideas which can be referred to as a framework or structure which can evaluate our reasons for valuing a certain decision or judgment.

What is Moral?

• an act of doing what is right/good.

• specific beliefs or attitudes that people have or describe acts that people perform and fall to proper standard.

• defending self to decide or to judge that a certain way of acting is either right or wrong.

Definition of Subjectivism

• The person may choose to act for the benefit of others if it will also eventually benefit him/her.

• “The ego or the self has its desires and interests, and all our actions are geared toward satisfying these interests (Bulaong, Jr., Oscar et al, 2018)”.

• the main character is the person (subject) and he/she is at the frontline of the moral situation and is burdened to make the moral decision

Definition of Psychological Egoism

• The person may choose to act for the benefit of others if it will also eventually benefit him/her.

• the main character is the person (subject) and he/she is at the frontline of the moral situation and is burdened to make the moral decision

• “The ego or the self has its desires and interests, and all our actions are geared toward satisfying these interests (Bulaong, Jr., Oscar et al, 2018)”.

Definition of Ethical Egoism

• “The ego or the self has its desires and interests, and all our actions are geared toward satisfying these interests (Bulaong, Jr., Oscar et al, 2018)”.

• The person may choose to act for the benefit of others if it will also eventually benefit him/her.

• the main character is the person (subject) and he/she is at the frontline of the moral situation and is burdened to make the moral decision.