Real Life Ethics
Public Health campaigns that measure success in how much they've reduced smoking is using this approach to morality?
What is Consequentialism?
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
John Rawls laid out a theory of Justice as ______
What is Fairness?
Feminist educators have centered on this moral thoery.
This is the only moral theory that we studied this is commonly named after its founder.
What is Kantianism?
Those who oppose abortion are most likely to draw form this normative moral theory.
What is the Natural Law Theory?
His mother gave birth to two things at once -- himself and fear.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
An argument is valid if the premises logically lead to the conclusion. An argument is _____ if the premises and conclusion are actually true.
What is Sound?
This policy has a lot to do with the school-to-prison pipeline.
What is Zero-tolerance.
Martin Luther King Jr. drew on this theory when we challenged an ordinance against public demonstrations in Birmingham.
What is the Natural Law Theory?
Teachers who pass a struggling student, even though they didn't "earn" a passing grade, are prioritizing _____ over justice.
What is mercy? (OR, what is compassion?)
He took such regular walks around his home city of Königsberg that people could set their watch to when he stepped out of his house.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
"If you want a good grade, you should study" is an example of a(n) ________________.
What is a hypothetical imperative.
This educational value would suggest that Kate, the disruptive middle school student, stay in the classroom instead of going to a time-out room.
What is inclusion?
This theory says that morality just refers to "socially approved habits"
What is Relativism?
When a society decides to invest in education and arts (theater, music, fine arts) over simply giving everyone a Disney+ membership, they are drawing on a distinction put forth by this philosopher.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
He was the "student" of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle.
This term comes form the Greek "to give oneself the law."
What is Autonomy?
The way schools are funded in the United States challenges _______'s theory of Justice and Fairness.
The #MeToo movement and other movements attempting to revisit norms about power and privilege are following the pattern of which normative moral theory?
What is the Social Contract Theory?
Observing how people behave in anonymous internet forums should remind us of this story from Ancient Greece.
What is the Ring of Gyges?
In addition to teaching philosophy at the university level, she taught for several years in the Boston and Atlanta public schools.
Who is Meira Levinson?
Thomas Aquinas believed there were five fundamental categories of these, which could guide all of our moral decisions.
What are precepts?
Limiting your thinking to your duties as a teacher, as opposed to just a human being, is an example of this.
What is role morality?
The originator of this moral theory was very interested in prison designs.
What is Utilitarianism?