The view that an act is morally right just because it is allowed by the guiding ideals of the society in which it is performed, and immoral just because it is forbidden by those ideals.
What is cultural relativism?
100
The opposite of virtuous.
What is vicious?
100
He argued that a person's moral development occurs in six distinct stages.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
100
A truth that one comes to know by way of the five senses.
What is an empirical truth?
100
Always treat a person as an end, never as a mere means.
What is Kant's Principle of Humanity?
200
The view that an act is morally right just because one approves of it or because one's commitments allow it.
What is ethical subjectivism? (Also: individual relativism.)
200
Someone of outstanding moral character; someone who can serve as a proper moral role model.
What is a moral exemplar?
200
Gilligan noted that women fared poorly according to the six-stage model. In particular, she noted that many women never mature beyond this stage.
What is the third stage?
200
A truth that one comes to know by understanding the meaning of the relevant concepts.
What is a conceptual truth?
200
The ability to reliably determine what your duty is, and a steady commitment to do your duty for it's own sake.
What is a good will?
300
People whose views differ radically from the conventional wisdom of their society.
What are iconoclasts?
300
Someone who does the right thing with little or no pleasure.
Who is the continent person?
300
These important features of morality (according to feminist ethicists) have both thinking and feeling elements.
What are the emotions?
300
Traits we have from birth.
What are innate traits?
300
This argument:
1. All Phremes are Zinks.
2. Bolzar is a Phreme.
3. Therefore, Bolzar is a Zink.
What is logically valid?
400
The capacity to be wrong (mistaken) with respect to moral knowledge.
What is moral fallibility?
400
Aristotle's definition of virtue.
What is a mean between two extremes?
400
Competitiveness, independence, and demanding one's fair share.
What are traditionally masculine traits?
400
An action that would bring about at least one evil effect and at least one good effect is morally permissible if certain conditions are met.
What is the Doctrine of Double Effect?
Double Jeopardy: List the four conditions that must be met.
400
Agreement that is expressed through silence or inaction.
What is tacit consent?
500
If relativism is true, than this notion makes no sense as the evolution from one moral view to another is neither for better or worse.
What is moral progress?
500
Human flourishing, well-being, or happiness.
What is eudaimonia?
500
Empathy, sympathy, mercy, and compassion.
What are traditionally feminine traits?
500
Aquinas considered these four to be the basic intrinsic goods.
What is life, knowledge, procreation, and sociability?
500
A command of reason that requires a person to take the needed means to getting what she wants.