"I refuse to resign because nothing I did was illegal."
Who is Anthony Weiner?
100
This is the name for laws enacted by legislative bodies.
What are statutes?
100
These standards concern behavior that is of serious consequence to human welfare, and therefore should take precedence over other types of standards.
What are moral standards?
100
This classical philosopher believed that all things and people exist for a purpose, and that things and people can therefore be better or worse vis-a-vis that purpose.
Who is Aristotle?
100
In argumentation, this type of statement is claimed (correctly or incorrectly) to follow from a series of others.
What is a conclusion?
200
"What did that poor old woman do to you, that you could treat her so mean?...I got to feeling so mean and miserable I most wished I was dead."
Who is Huckleberry Finn?
200
The name given to guidelines on particular types of conduct issued by boards or agencies at the request of a standing legislative body.
What are administrative regulations?
200
Sometimes confused with a type of morality, this category of behavioral guidelines is concerned with manners and propriety--what is generally considered polite in society.
What is etiquette?
200
These two B.F. Goodrich employees tendered their resignations in the wake of an internal data-suppression and misrepresentation scandal.
Who are Kermit Vandivier and Searle Lawson?
200
The term applied to the first two of the following three statements:
If a person is a mother, the person is a female.
Fran is a mother.
Therefore, Fran is a female.
What is a premise?
300
"Group behaviors, even overtly misinformed ones, are a powerful influence on an individual's ability to act autonomously, even in the absence of direct persuasive efforts and conditions."
Who is Solomon Asch?
300
The name given to the body of laws that were applied in the English-speaking world prior to the establishment of a critical mass of statutes.
What is common law?
300
Formal creeds, sacred writings, and embodied practices that often serve as the source for moral standards.
What is religion?
300
Because legal actions can be morally wrong, these laws were enacted to provide immunity from damages to those rendering aid when it would have been within their legal rights to refuse to do so.
What are Good Samaritan laws?
300
This is the name for an argument whose premises do not entail its conclusion. For example,
Some women abuse their wives.
I have a wife.
Therefore, I abuse my wife.
What is an invalid argument?
400
"Poker's own brand of ethics is different from the ethical ideals of civilized human relationships...Cunning deception and concealment..., not kindness and openheartedness, are vital in poker."
Who is Albert Carr?
400
The name for court rulings on the requirements of the Constitution and the constitutionality of legislation.
What is Constitutional law?
400
Because subscribing to this ideal makes it impossible to engage in comparative moral criticism or to define / measure moral progress, this moral school of thought represented by this term has become practically suspect.
What is moral relativism?
400
This principle states that individuals who care only about their own happiness tend to be less happy than those who care about others.
What is the paradox of hedonism?
400
The label applied to arguments that have one or more false premises (even if the argument is valid, as the following example is).
All peaches have 3 pits.
This fruit is a peach.
Therefore, this fruit has 3 pits.
What is an unsound argument?
500
"I am the smartest guy in the room."
Who is Enron executive Kenneth Lay?
500
This term represents the belief that a form of law is written on the hearts of all humans, regardless of time and culture.
What is natural law?
500
This is the name of the individual, internal voice that guides our behavior by subtly advising us as to the appropriateness of our actions.
What is conscience?
500
The tragic story of Kitty Genovese helped us understand this dysfunctional social behavioral phenomenon that can arise from a sense of inevitability and helplessness.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
500
This type of reasoning typically includes a moral standard, a factual judgement about some statement or action related to that standard, and a moral judgement about that statement or action. For example:
It is wrong to lie.
Saying "I did not cheat on my taxes" was a lie.
Therefore, saying "I did not cheat on my taxes" was wrong.