Intro to Ethics

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Ethics can be further divided into two kinds. One of the kinds is called _ ethics (which discusses WHAT IS, in relation to human behavior)

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descriptive

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One of the kinds of ethics is called _ philosophy (which discusses WHAT SHOULD BE in relation to human behavior)

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moral

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An anthropologist writes a report on the ethical norms of a society in the Amazon rain forest. What kind of ethics is this?

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Descriptive Ethics

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What is the best description of the critical reasoning that is involved in doing Ethics?

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Re-examining right and wrong as we face new situations

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A student wants a dog so that they have an excuse to talk with their crush who also owns a dog. For this student, the dog has what kind of value and why?

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Instrumental Value: The dog has value based on what it can do for the student.

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Socrates and Glaucon discuss the following question in the Ring of Gyges Dialogue: Should you be moral if you REALLY don't have to be?

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Should you be moral if you REALLY don't have to be?

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In the Ring of Gyges dialogue, who takes the position that without laws, all people would naturally act out of corrupt self interest?

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Glaucon

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What is correct about the definition of subjective truth?

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Subjective truth is based on personal experience.

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Empiricism believes that the source of morality is:

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A product of human evolution

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What is a potential danger of seeing morality as a Transcendental (rather than Empirical) ethicist?

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Because Transcendental claims are eternal and beyond us, we cannot question them, which can have dangerous consequences if those claims are harmful.