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What is a worldview? correct answers the answers to the core questions of life are rooted in ones worldview which provides the lens used by one to perceive and interpret the world. What are 3 things are a worldview based on? correct answers Metaphysics: What is reality? Epistemology: What can I know about reality? Anthropology: How does a human person function based on what is real and what he can know about what is real? What is moral realism? correct answers Moral values and facts exist Moral values and facts are objective Moral values and facts can be known What are premodernism, modernism, and postmodernism? How have they impacted ethics? correct answers These are all mindsets, emphasized in different times in history. Pre-modernism: God focused- occurred from 4000 BC- 1700 AD Modernism: lives are built around God, human focused; started around the enlightenment () -SCIENCE Post-modernism: Me center; each person does what is good for themselves started from 1900-present How have morality and society's view of "The Story" changed over the years?- taken from a narrative approach to ethics correct answers The Story of Christian Ethics = the story of God, church, ethics, and Christian ethics Premodern Era - people believed in the story of the bible and tried to live by it Modern Era - people denied the bible at its story, but still tried to live by biblical moral standards Society today has more of a Utilitarianism view now and a relativistic morality Which two ethical perspectives predominate in our culture today since the world has lost "The Story"? correct answers Utilitarianism-greatest good for greatest number Ethical Relativism- no universal standards (each person forms their own standards and are equal What are the four domains for analyzing moral behavior? correct answers character, intention, actions, consequences How do the law and ethics compare as a basis for morality? correct answers •There is a deep connection between morality and the law. •The law is only a moral minimum. Almost every law is the imposition of someone's morality. •Law is about what people can't, must, or shalldo. •Ethics is about what people should do. What is the difference between cognitive and noncognitive views of morality? correct answers Noncognitive: moral statements do not convey a truth-value, but are only expressions of approval or disapproval (i.e., emotions or instinct)