QUIZ 4 ETHICS
I. IDENTIFICATION
PARADIGM 1. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that
constitutes a way of viewing things.
MORAL PHILOSOPHY 2. Branch of ethics that studies the nature of morality.
MORAL RELATIVISM 3. It claims that the existence of moral facts and the truth
(or falsify) of moral judgments are independent of people’s thoughts and
perceptions.
MORAL COGNITIVISM 4. It is the most popular form of non-cognitivist theory. It
submits that moral judgments are mere expressions of our emotions and
feelings.
MORAL OBJECTIVISM 5. It theorizes that moral facts and principles apply to
everybody in all places.
MORAL NATURALISM 6. A meta-ethical stance which states that moral facts are
known through observation and experience.
NORMATIVE ETHICS 7. Branch of ethics that studies how man ought to act.
MORAL SYSTEM 8. An ethical system that bases morality on independent moral
rules or duties.
MORALITY 9. Refers to a moral system that determines the moral value of
actions by their outcomes or results.
ETHICS 10. It philosophically examines specific, controversial moral issues which
attempts to determine the ethically correct course of action in specific realms of
human action.
II. FILL IN THE BLANK
1. Virtue ethics is amoral philosophy that teaches that an action is right if it is
an action that a ___________ person would perform in the same situations.
2. For Aristotle, ethics is an inquiry of a valuable .
3. The eternal law refers to the rational plan of God by which all
____________ is ordered.
4. The type of law that is primarily significant in ethics is natural law .
5. Aristotle considers happiness as the purpose of life - the greatest good of
all human life.
6. Excess and defect normally indicate a virtue .
I. IDENTIFICATION
PARADIGM 1. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that
constitutes a way of viewing things.
MORAL PHILOSOPHY 2. Branch of ethics that studies the nature of morality.
MORAL RELATIVISM 3. It claims that the existence of moral facts and the truth
(or falsify) of moral judgments are independent of people’s thoughts and
perceptions.
MORAL COGNITIVISM 4. It is the most popular form of non-cognitivist theory. It
submits that moral judgments are mere expressions of our emotions and
feelings.
MORAL OBJECTIVISM 5. It theorizes that moral facts and principles apply to
everybody in all places.
MORAL NATURALISM 6. A meta-ethical stance which states that moral facts are
known through observation and experience.
NORMATIVE ETHICS 7. Branch of ethics that studies how man ought to act.
MORAL SYSTEM 8. An ethical system that bases morality on independent moral
rules or duties.
MORALITY 9. Refers to a moral system that determines the moral value of
actions by their outcomes or results.
ETHICS 10. It philosophically examines specific, controversial moral issues which
attempts to determine the ethically correct course of action in specific realms of
human action.
II. FILL IN THE BLANK
1. Virtue ethics is amoral philosophy that teaches that an action is right if it is
an action that a ___________ person would perform in the same situations.
2. For Aristotle, ethics is an inquiry of a valuable .
3. The eternal law refers to the rational plan of God by which all
____________ is ordered.
4. The type of law that is primarily significant in ethics is natural law .
5. Aristotle considers happiness as the purpose of life - the greatest good of
all human life.
6. Excess and defect normally indicate a virtue .
