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.

Identify the statement below that best describes the model of moral relativism.

Which of the following statements represent claims or assumptions of the paradigm of moral relativism?

Let’s consider how another approach to ethics would address the “Ring of Gyges.”   Gyges, who finds a magical ring which allows him to become invisible chooses to use the ring to steal, seduce, abuse and kill.  Because he is invisible there are no “consequences” for his actions.  The question that  asks is, “Why shouldn’t he do as he pleases?”  “Why should he care about morality?”    This approach would claim that RIGHT behavior involves actions that benefit ALL members of the community.  Gyges’ actions promote ONLY his good and not the good of the WHOLE community.