Philosophers and Theories
This philosopher believed that happiness is achieved through living a life of virtue.
Who is Aristotle?
What is why?
Determinism states that all events are caused by _____________ forces.
What are physical, social, or historical?
The three dimensions of conscience.
What are capacity, process, and judgement?
An important philosophical theory that states everything has an ultimate purpose.
What is teleology?
This philosopher said ethics begins with our relationship with the Other.
Who is Levinas?
The Conceptual Framework of Action helps us understand what an action says about ___________
What is who we are?
Naturalism believes that everything can be explained by _____________ processes.
What are physical and biological?
This force is fuelled by fear of punishment and guilt.
What is the superego?
What is virtue?
This philosopher believed we should act only according to universal moral laws.
Who is Kant?
This experience is described as experiencing something so unjust that we feel it cannot be right.
What is the ethical experience of contrast?
According to religious determinism, God plays this role in our freedom.
What is predetermination?
This force is fuelled by love, truth, morals, and doing what's right.
What is the conscience?
We should only act according to rules we'd want everyone to follow.
What is a Universal Law?
What is the Doctrine of the Mean
A student reasons that it's okay to cheat on a test because "everyone else does it."
What is a misinformed conscience / trivialization?
The Catholic Church teaches that God gives us _______________ to avoid totalitarianism.
What is freedom?
This is how character forms over time.
_________________ calls us to respond with compassion and responsibility.
What is the Face of the Other?
According to Kant, this should motivate every action we undertake.
Jessica feels guilty after breaking curfew, not because it was wrong, but because her parents will be mad. The voice speaking inside her is __________.
What is the superego?
Two friends get into a fight. One beats up the other. In therapy, he figures out a repressed past experience motivated this reaction.
What is Social Determinism?
A well-formed conscience is a _________________.
What is a well-informed conscience?
We must never treat others as means to an end, but as__________________.
What are ends in themselves?