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It's all Relative
Niko, not Nike
A-wrist-toe
*Insert Bad German Pun*
Immanuel, not Emmanuel
100
This kind of truth is found in the subject of a moral decision.
What is "subjective"?
100
This is the definition of teleology.
What is the study of ends or final causes?
100
This character type is the person who knows the right thing to do, but always wants to seek the pleasurable thing in any situation.
What is the incontinent/soft person?
100
This is what Kant based his ethical theory upon.
What is reason and will?
100
This Christmas saying sums up Kant's ethical view for following the moral law.
What is "be good for goodness sake"?
200
These are the two different kinds of relativism found in relativism.
What are cultural and moral?
200
According to Aristotle, this is the final cause of a human being.
What is happiness (eudaimonia)?
200
These are the four different character types according to Aristotle.
What are: incontinent/soft, continent/enduring, virtuous, and vicious?
200
This is a reason why Kant rejects Aristotle's view that the human telos is happiness.
What is happiness is too uncertain (no one knows what will make him or her happy, happiness is not always a good thing for morals)?
200
This is the role of consequences in ethical action for Kant.
What is they do not change the morality of an action (they are not important)?
300
These are the three reasons why relativism has some appeal according to Longtin and Peach.
What is: there are no precise answers in ethics, circumstances can change the moral outcome (so ethics is subjective), and relativism seems to promote tolerance and compassion (don't put your morals on me!)?
300
This is how a person gains happiness according to Aristotle.
What is by leading a life of virtue?
300
These are the two kinds of vices according to Aristotle.
What are vice (excess) and vice (deficit)?
300
For Kant, this is a better guide for leading people toward happiness.
What is instinct?
300
This is a reason why Kant would not consider Tiger Woods' golf record and talent as worthy of praise.
What is natural talent is not a part of reason and will, it is something beyond the will and out of one's control?
400
These are the two reason why relativism is wrong and unappealing.
What is relativism is self-contradictory and it is impracticable?
400
These are the parts of the human person according to Aristotle (provide the subsets).
What are: the non-rational, the rational, the appetitive, and the vegetative?
400
This is the goal of the Bent Stick remedy.
What is to get a person closer to the virtue in the center of the scale between vice (excess) and vice (deficit) by acting in a way that is the exact opposite extreme of the vice currently held?
400
Moral action comes from following this according to Kant.
What is the moral law (categorical imperative)?
400
Rather than a categorical imperative, Kant called Aristotle's virtues these.
What are counsels of prudence?
500
This is how one would argue that relativism is self-contradictory.
What is: 1) There are no moral principles or rules that apply universally. 2) It is inappropriate to judge another culture's behavior based on one's own culture. 3) The second premise contradicts the first by creating a moral rule that applies universally. 4) Therefore, there must be moral principles or rules that apply universally.
500
This is how one develops character according to Aristotle.
What is through proper habit formation?
500
This is the difference between pleasure and happiness for Aristotle.
What is pleasure is part of the appetites and is short-term while happiness is part of the rational and is long-term?
500
These are the two formulations of the moral law.
What is the formula of the universal law and the formula of the end in itself?
500
In order for a universal law to be valid a person must be able to do these two things in order for the law to be valid.
What is desire it as good and conceive of it as real?