Ethics
The personal system of determining rights and wrongs based on some standard.
What is morality?
This worldview embraces the concept of Agape: the belief that morality is built upon two foundational moral absolutes": love of God and love of Neighbor
What is Christianity?
This Secularist philosopher taught "Even if there were absolute truths, we could not know them; we should focus on improving the world here and now"
hint: He had a significant impact on the public school system
Who was John Dewey?
This worldview embraces the philosophy of anti-realism (the belief that what we think we know of reality is socially constructed by human thought)
What is Postmodernism?
The philosophical belief that reliable knowledge is obtained solely through the scientific method.
What is Scientism?
The philosophical study of morality.
What is Ethics?
This worldview believes that when it comes to ethics, 1-God has nothing whatsoever to do with it, 2- we are on our own
What is secularism?
This philosopher created the philosophy of Rationalism.
Who was Rene Descartes?
This philosophy believes the God has made us as thinking beings, so we must use our reasoning ability to live virtuously.
What is Rationalism?
The study of knowledge, truth, and the nature of ultimate reality
What is Philosophy?
This theory asks questions like “What is the good life?”
What is teleological ethics?
The belief that morality is relative to or defined by the individual or culture
What is Moral Relativism?
This philosopher created the philosophy of Ethical egoism.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
Thos worldviews Philosophy can be categorized as Naturalism (the belief that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes)?
What is Secularism?
The branch of philosophy that seeks to understand the nature of knowledge
What is Epistemology?
This philosophy says that human beings should maximize their own personal pleasure
What is Hedonism?
This philosophy says that the good life is being free to look after one’s own interests.
What is Ethical Egoism?
This philosopher created the philosophy of Hedonism
Who was Aristippus?
This worldview embraces the philosophy of materialism (only the physical world exists)
What is Marxism?
According to this worldview, "reality: is not what objectively exists; it is only our agreement about what is
What is Postmodernism?
The belief that the morality of an action is determined by the unique situation of that action.
What is Situational Ethics?
The ethical system that judges the morality of actions based upon some principle of duty?
What is deontological ethics?
This German philosopher believed that "Human action is guided by will, not by the false promises of a perfect world of truth that is eternal" and greatly influenced the postmodern world view
Who was Friedrich Nietzsche?
This New Spirituality philosophy is a belief that reality is ultimately divine
What is Spiritual Monism?
These two worldviews hold to a view of reality known as nonnaturalist- affirming both the natural and supernatural, material and immaterial
What are Islam and Christianity?