Ethics Quiz 1

Vocabulary Terms

Philosophy

love or pursuit of wisdom/knowledge

Practical Man

tendency in society to think about things as concrete outcomes and tangible results

Instinctive Man

tendency in society to solely confine oneself in one’s interests

Common Sense Morality

the way people make philosophical decisions without the use of ethics

Logic

informal fallacies of argumentation/structure of a goof argument

Epistemology

What can we know? How can we know it?

Ethics

involves how humans should interact with one another

Metaethics

“right” is the path you should take to the “good” (abstract)

Normative Ethics

formulating ethical theories

Applied Ethics

applying moral reasoning to specific real-world situations

Plato

an informal student of Socrates. He later published work through the character of Socrates to tell what Plato thinks. He formulated the school of thought for knowledge which breaks down to belief, true, and justified.

Socrates

an ancient Athenian philosopher that believes in recognizing one’s own limitations regarding what one can be certain of. He is one of the foundations of modern-day philosophical methods known as the Socratic method.