Which approach to ethics would answer Plato’s question in the “Ring of Gyges” “Why should Gyges care about morality?”  by claiming that Gyges’ actions cause harm and are unfair with no consideration of the equality of others.

Which of the following statements is CORRECT in answer to the question: Are there moral absolutes?

Which of the following questions is NOT one of the major WORLDVIEW questions you were introduced to in the course overview?

What is the approach to ethics that would make statements like these? “Abortion ends life and is immoral.”  “Stealing is wrong.”

The ethical action, according to this approach, is the one which will produce the most good for the most people or conversely, cause the least harm to the least number of people.

The view that a change or re-defining of right/wrong in one area of society will lead to eventual moral  decay of the entire culture is called:

In Module 2 we considered Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.”  In the video we viewed we saw that prisoners who had been chained in a cave from an early age had no understanding of the reality of the outside world and could not understand it even when a former prisoner who had been freed returned to the cave to tell them about it.  Which branch of philosophy is represented by the prisoners’ limited understanding and would be concerned with the limits of knowledge?

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave the question is posed: “What is real?”  Which branch of philosophy focuses on the study of reality?

Which branch of philosophy is concerned with the meaning and justification of morality and asks questions such as “Why should I be moral?”

The ethical action from this perspective is the one which provides a solution that respects the rights of all who have a stake.