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-Autonomy
Society can tell you that something is right or wrong, but at the end of the day, it's a personal choice to
accept that or to reject it.
-True
-Empirical
-false
This intrinsic goodness is the reason why deontologists emphasise the importance of 'motive' and
intention'.
-true
Deontological systems hold that the moral worth of an action lies in your conforming to duties and rules,
as opposed to considering the consequences of what you do.
-true
A rule that connects an action to the reasons for the action, i.e, a motivation/ goal/ context.
-Maxim
Which of the following actions would Mill judge as morally the best?
If what is right is right because God wills, then no one should have a problem deciding what is right.
-true
Summa Theologica: who serves as the mediator between God and man in Christian thought, Jesus as
human's Savior, the Sacraments, and the Resurrection.
Aquinas argued that the natural law is not just a matter of convention.
-false
Refers to all instances wherein human beings construct and enforce laws in their communities.
-human law
Duty-based ethics teaches that some acts are right or wrong because of the sorts of things they are, and
people have a duty to act accordingly, regardless of the good or bad consequences that may be
produced.
-true
-love
It is true that not all people have to comply with the moral laws.
-true
Mill replies to the objection that people see virtue as an end by saying that.
It enables a person to know what is right or wrong and good or bad actions.
-moral
It is the common currency framework that calculates the pleasure that some actions can produce.
-Felicific Calculus
Which Christian Church predominantly uses the Natural Law Theory?
-Catholic Church
-Humans are social beings who must care about other people's interests
One of the requirements of deleontology is to follow the rules and do their duty.
-true
-false
Deontology states that society needs rules in order to function and a person can only be called moral to
the extent that he abides by those rules.
-true
Aristotle is mainly interested in finding criteria for good or morally right actions.
-false
-By emphasizing the capacity for reason as what is essential in our human nature.
If morality is based in the will of God then, it seems to many morality and religion will be closely
connected.
-true
Bentham and Mill understand happiness as the experience of pleasure for the greatest number of
persons, even at the expense of some individuals' rights.
-true
Consequentialist theories of ethics hold that the moral worth of an action should be judged by its
consequences.
-True
Three Determinants of Moral Act: Which the will intend primarily and directly.
Don't lie, don't steal and don't cheat are examples of moral laws.
-True
A heteronymous will is not a goodwill because it doesn't fulfill duty for the duty's sake, submting tself to
factors other than reason.
-True
-intellect
Deontologists do not live in a world of moral rules.
-false
Morals defined by a force outside of the individual, this means that you do not define morality it is
defined for you
-Heteronomy
Summa Theologica: his goodness, his might and his creative power, the existence and nature of God. the
creation of the angels, and the work of the six days of creation.
Summa Theologica: his goodness, his might and his creative power, the existence and nature of God, the
creation of the angels, and the work of the six days of creation.
-with God
If moral codes are based on the will of God, then only religious believers could know what is right and
what is wrong, according to Aquinas.
-true
It is the Christian belief that the Moral Law is given by a LAW-GIVER who is
-Jesus Christ
-Utilitarianism
-ethics
Duty-based ethics are usually what people are talking about when they refer to the "principle of the
thing:
-True
Someone who follows duty-based ethics should do the right thing, even if that produces more harm (or
less good) than doing the wrong thing.
-True
Summa Theologica: dynamic human life, the purpose of man, habits, types of laws, vices and virtues,
and the religious versus the secular life.
-With Man