Aristotle
mean
Virtue is a state of _________________
character
View that says that morality is relative to each individual
Individual Subjectivism
Divine ________________ Theory
Command
Correctly spell your instructor's last name (in full!)
Bruxvoort
Translate eudaimonia
Flourishing
Virtue includes more than mere action to also include:
(identify at least two things)
belief
perception
desire
emotion
The view that says that morality is relative to one's culture or society
Cultural Relativism
"Do the gods love it because it's holy, or is it holy because the gods love it?"
Ethics is not descriptive but:
Normative
Aristotle lived in this country
Greece
Moral virtue is acquired through:
habit/practice
One of the objections to popular/cultural relativism
[many possible answers]
One of the assumptions about ethics & religion discussed in the textbook (paraphrase ok):
- religious belief is necessary to motivates us to be good
- God is the creator of morality
or
- religion is essential for moral guidance
A dilemma has two:
horns
Translate arete
Excellence or virtue
If the vice of deficiency is deceitfulness, the virtue is:
Honesty
(also Integrity)
"The whiteboard marker weighs 24 grams" is an example of an ____________ truth
Objective
One of the main problems with Divine Command Theory
makes morality arbitrary; God could command horrdendous acts
Like ethics, this is normative:
law
(also etiquette)
Aristotle says that virtue is _________________ but not sufficient for eudaimonia
Necessary
Intellectual virtue is acquired through:
teaching
Give an example of a claim that can be empirically verified
[many possible answers]
Aquinas's alternative to Divine Command Theory
Natural Law Theory
Another subfield of philosophy (besides ethics)
Metaphysics
or
Epistemology