Essential Terms

What is the discipline that examines the moral standards of an individual or a society?

• Aesthetics

• Ethics

• Technique

• Meta-Ethics

What is the set of standards a person has about what is right and wrong?

• Morality

• Valuation

• Technique

• Etiquette

Which branch of ethics looks into the nature, meaning, scope, and foundations of moral values and discourses?

• Meta-Ethics

• Normative Ethics

• Applied Ethics

• Descriptive Ethics

What refers to the judgments of personal approval or disapproval that we make about what we hear, see, smell, and taste?

• Valuation

• Technique

• Etiquette

• Aesthetics

What is the formulation of moral forms or rules that can be a basis of actions?

• Consequentialism

• Normative Ethics

• Deontology

• Virtue Ethics

What examines issues in both the personal and social spheres that are matters of moral judgment?

• Meta-Ethics

• Normative Ethics

• Applied Ethics

• Descriptive Ethics

What is a situation that calls for moral valuation and is often the source of considerable debate?

• Moral Decision

• Moral Issue

• Moral Dilemma

• Moral Judgment

What is a systematic attempt to establish the validity of maintaining moral principles?

• Applied Ethics

• Moral Theory

• Meta-Ethics

• Normative Ethics

What ethical theory emphasizes the consequences of actions as the primary determinant of whether an action is right or wrong?

• Deontology

• Consequentialism

• Virtue Ethics

• Normative Ethics

What is the branch of ethics that deals with the application of moral principles to specific issues or cases?

• Meta-Ethics

• Normative Ethics

• Applied Ethics

• Descriptive Ethics