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1. True- Every human act that is good must be perfectly good in the context of the
object, the end of the agent, and the circumstances of the act.
2. False -The end of agent is the same as motive or intention.
3. False - The circumstances of the act can only lessen but not increase the
goodness or evilness of the act.
4. True - Virtue Ethics is focused on the development of good values and virtues.
5. False - Deontology is concerned with the consequences of human actions.
6. False - Anything that is good is desirable, and it is considered the means of a
human act.
7. True - The concept of morality is involved in making judgments about the
conduct of oneself and others.
8. False - An action is bad or evil if it is not desirable but pursues the end of a
human act.
9. False - Morality can be viewed as the concept of quantity or property of human
action.
10. False - Material morality is subjective, while formal morality is objective.
11. True - An intrinsic form of morality is at work if the human act, as a deed
performed, stands in relation to the norm of morality as good or evil.
12. False - The object of the act is a determinant that considers the purpose of
performing the act.
13. False - The properties of human acts are information that refers to the standards
or characteristics of human acts.
14. True - "Imputability" is the property of human acts that involves the notion of
culpability or praiseworthiness.
15. False - The consequences of human acts are information, which talks about
virtues and values.
1. Virtue Ethics - An ethical theory that emphasizes the role of character in moral
philosophy.
2. Deontology - This ethical theory is described as "duty-based" or
"obligation-based" ethics, as proponents "believe that ethical rules bind people to
their duty."
3. Utilitarianism - A theory of ethics that holds the principle that "the greatest good
is the greatest pleasure of the greatest number.
4. Confucianism - This is a moral philosophy that believes in the maxim that "if
each person governs himself well, his family will also be governed well."
5. Eudaimonism - An ethical philosophy, one of the strands of virtue ethics, that
defines right action as that which leads to the "well-being" of the individual.
6. Protagoras - The Greek philosopher who famously asserted that “man is the
measure of all things.”
7. Socrates - An ancient philosopher who suggested that "the unexamined life is
not worth living."
8. Altruism - This moral philosophy holds that individuals have a moral obligation
to help, serve, or benefit others, if necessary, at the sacrifice of self-interest.
9. Hedonism - This ethical theory holds the principle that the greater and more
intense the pleasure one gets out of his actions, the more right they are.
10. Humanism - This ethical theory adheres to the moral contention that man is
inherently good.
11. Confucius - Who is the philosopher behind the popular golden rule in morality
that says, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you?"
12. Consequentialism - This normative ethical theory argues that the morality of an
action is dependent on its outcome.
13. Moral Relativism - This is the theory of ethics, which intensely declares that
there is no universal or absolute set of moral principles.
14. Moral Skepticism - A moral philosophy that holds that man’s positions on the
morality of human action cannot (or never will) be justified.
15. Ethics of Care - It is one of the strands of virtue ethics that holds that moral
action centers on interpersonal relationships and benevolence as a virtue.