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Branch of ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when considering how one ought to act.

• Normative Ethics

• Virtue Ethics

• Stoicism

• Intuitive Ethics

Examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions. Prescriptive, rather than descriptive.

• Normative Ethics

• Virtue Ethics

• Stoicism

• Intuitive Ethics

Describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force for ethical behavior, and it is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, Aristotle, and other early Greek philosophers.

• Normative Ethics

• Virtue Ethics

• Stoicism

• Intuitive Ethics

Peace of mind, or apatheia, was of the highest value; self-mastery over one's desires and emotions leads to spiritual peace.

• Normative Ethics

• Virtue Ethics

• Stoicism

• Intuitive Ethics

Epictetus posited that the greatest good was contentment and serenity.

• Normative Ethics

• Virtue Ethics

• Stoicism

• Intuitive Ethics

The individual's will should be independent and inviolate. Cardinal virtues of wisdom, temperance, justice, courage.

• Normative Ethics

• Virtue Ethics

• Stoicism

• Intuitive Ethics

(Blank) posited that the greatest good was contentment and serenity.

Principal ethics is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.

• Intuitive Ethics

• Hedonism

• Consequentialism

• Utilitarianism

Ranges from those advocating the indulgence of even momentary desires to those teaching a pursuit of spiritual bliss.

• Intuitive Ethics

• Hedonism

• Consequentialism

• Utilitarianism

"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”

• Intuitive Ethics

• Hedonism

• Consequentialism

• Utilitarianism