___________________abortions are performed to remove a developing fetus that has been prenatally diagnosed as having a genetic disease or disorder.

The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and value of beauty is

_________________ was a result of the collective ideas of the paradigm shift which occurred in ethics and refers to a system of belief whereby man begins and ends with himself as the sole reference point for truth and morality.

In class we discussed two types of faith.  A type of faith in which a person acts with no previous knowledge or experience is called:

Which philosopher from the medieval era made Plato’s ideas the basis for Christian ethics and wrote the “City of God?”

Match each approach, branch of philosophy or paradigm of ethics to its correct description

Descriptive Ethics

We considered Plato’s “Ring of Gyges” in which a shepherd called Gyges discovers a ring that allows him to be invisible. An argument is made that no one would behave morally in possession of such a ring.  Each of the five approaches to ethics would address this claim by specifying why Gyges SHOULD NOT DO as he pleases. Match each of the FIVE APPROACHES to its answer for this moral dilemma.

What term is used to refer to the fertilizied egg until it implants  in the uterine wall?

The _____________________ approach views the ethical action that which ensures that the burden of good and bad are distributed without prejudice.