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WorksheetsFormative Assessment 1: Philosophy, Ethics, and Moral Foundation
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Ethics is understood as the language of morality.
True
False
Being "ethical" is a usual connotation that one is blameworthy.
True
False
A narrower sense of "ethical" describes a set of rules or conventions within a general field.
True
False
A narrow sense of ethics allows us to have the same sets of behavior for the different parts of our lives.
True
False
A narrow view of ethics allows no questions to be asked about the validity of the law.
True
False
Eminent domain is a legal idea that an individual can override legally the community.
True
False
The law is unquestionably understood as moral
True
False
Religious commitment aligns with natural reason.
True
False
Philosophy, especially Ethics, aligns with supernatural reason.
True
False
Religion has its dogmatic assumptions.
True
False
Conscience is contextual
True
False
The voice we hear as conscience can reinterpret a certain action in differing moral assumptions.
True
False
Conscience is a crucial tool for primary ethical intuition.
True
False
This ethical project sees that ethics could be reduced to a long history of cooperation among human beings as "thinking animals"
Sociobiology
Cognitivism
Non-Cognitivism
Foundationalism
This ethical project is usually connected with the theistic worldview.
Natural Law
Foundationalism
Non-Cognitvism
Emotivism
This ethical project checks on the moral anchors that people have.
Foundationalism
Emotivism
Cognitivism
Non-Cognitivism
This ethical project checks the justification of moral language in terms of its internal consistency.
Foundationalism
Coherentist
Natural Law
Sociobiology
This ethical project checks the fundamental moral unit that the individual is ought
to always promote his or her own good.
Ethical Egoism
Foundationalism
Coherentist
Relativist
This ethical project justifies that there are no fixed points in ethics and all claims must be expressions of preference.
Foundationalism
Coherentist
Relativism
Cognitivist
This ethical project accepts the claim that there are certain acceptable conventions within a community and look at the differences between different societies.
Foundationalism
Coherentist
Cultural Relativism
Natural Law
This ethics focuses on the actual behavior as a statement with no values projected.
Descriptive Ethics
Metaethics
Applied Ethics
Postmodernism
This focuses on the nature of our moral utterances.
Metaethics
Feminism
Postmodernism
Descriptive Ethics
This emphasizes that moral statements make knowledge claims.
Cognitivist
Non-Cognitivist
Postmodernist
Descriptive
This emphasizes that moral talk can be done through scientific demonstration.
Naturalism
Emotivism
Prescriptivism
Realism
It accepts that moral statements can be determined as true or false, but contends they arise from a human sensibility that we all share, which enables us to determine right from wrong.
Naturalism
Intuitionism
Emotivism
Prescriptivism
It focuses on the belief that moral language expresses or exhorts only our personal attitudes and is incapable of expressing objective facts about the world.
Natural Law
Cognitivism
Non-Cognitivism
Postmodernist
It would deny that there are universal moral facts, and believe that morality is a question of personal reactions, which may vary significantly.
Prescriptivism
Emotivism
Feminism
Intuitionist
Our responses and utterances not only express a personal view,
but they serve to encourage others to think the same way as well.
Naturalism
Intuitionist
Emotivism
Prescriptivism
There is an objective truth to moral claims.
Realism
Anti-realism
Emotivism
Prescriptivism
This asserts that there is no objective moral reality.
Realism
Anti-Realism
Feminism
Post-modernist
It deals with setting norms or standards.
Descriptive Ethics
Normative Ethics
Feminism
Postmodernist
It tries to explain what is good and why that is so, and what makes an act right.
Ethical Theory
Applied Ethics
Relativist
Coherentist
It makes explicit arguments about how we should behave in specific cases.
Ethical Theory
Applied Ethics
Consequentialist
Virtue-based theory
This looks to the potential results of our actions to determine whether they are right or wrong.
Consequentialist
Virtue-based theory
Deontology
Applied Ethics
This focuses on the motives and Intention.
Consequentialist
Virtue-based theory
Deontology
Postmodernist
It does not present direct principles or rules that would indicate what the best course of action is in particular cases but instead tells us what matters most is developing a worthy character.
Value-based theory
Consequentialist
Deontology
Postmodernist
Life should be purposeful according to this ethical concept.
Teleological
Consequentialist
Virtue-based theory
Emotivism
This confronted many of the assumptions that have been presented in the ethical canon.
Feminist
Consequentialist
Virtue-based theory
Teleology
Each of us constructs our own narrative based on our lives, and the function of ethical language is not so much to argue as it is to present a story that makes sense to others.
Post-modernist
Modernist
Teleology
Vitue-based Theory
Academic theoretical discourse has a privileged truth-telling function and they look to the experience or phenomena of what goes on when we use ethical language.
Post-modernist
Modernist
Consequentialist
Virtue-based Theory
