Basic Terms
Standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do
What is ethics?
This is formed through habit
What is character?
Objective analysis and evaluation of an issue to form a judgment
What is critical thinking?
This is a term used to describe a set of rules for thinking and reasoning
What are the laws of logic?
Two theories of ethical reasoning
What are consequentialist and deontological?
A term that can be used interchangeably with another term
What is ethics and morality?
Influence our effectiveness when interacting with other humans
What are principles?
What is reasoning?
Every conclusion reached must follow from absolute reasoning basesd on accepted premises
What is the law of rational inference?
This theory begins with the assumption that humans are goal directed
What is consequentialist reasoning?
What is personal ethics?
Adhering to a code of values
What is integrity?
What is inductive?
It states that either a proposition is true, or its negation is true
What is the law of excluded middle?
The standard of moral right and wrong and is the extent to which actions contribute to or detract from happiness
What is utilitarianism?
Shared by most members of a culture or society
What is common morality?
In a debate or discussion; a series of reasoning
What is an argument?
All knowledge is this ___________.
What is deductive?
A statement cannot both be true and untrue at the same time and in the same sense
What is the law of non-contradiction?
What is deontology
A function of a person's public image, attitudes, and behaviors
What is personality?
The part of an argument in which some quality, negative or positive, is attributed to a subject
What is a proposition?
This traces the progress of our knowledge from our first conceptions through their different combinations
What is logic?
Each thing is identical with itself and everything is itself and connot be something else
What is the law of identity?
Which theorist/philosopher argued that deontological moral reasoning is the right kind of reasoning for morality
Who is W.D. Ross?