Ethics - answer A branch of philosophy that study morality
Meta ethics - answer Asks the question if something is morally true or false
Normative ethics - answer Value concept (good or bad)
Applied ethics - answer Uses normative thesis concept to answer
Teleological - answer Define right and wrong and outcome is important to reality
End base of morality
Action oriented - answer Right and wrong
Agent oriented - answer Focus of the person
Culture relativism - answerDefying the existence of objective truth, rather than
maintaining morality as cultural defined
Define command theory (DCT) - answerPhilosophy view that morality is defined by God
Utilitarianism - answerAction are right if they are useful or for the benefit of all
Hedonist - answerA person who believes that the pursuit of pleasure is the most
important thing in life
Natural law - answerSystem of right or justice held to be the common to all human and
derive from nature rather than from the rules of society
Inherit value - answerIt's worth is coming from itself
Ethical hedonism - answerIs the idea that all people have the right to do everything in
their power to achieve the greatest amount of pleasure possible for them
Lower pleasure - answerAre physical pleasures
Higher pleasure - answerAre mental pleasure
Rule utilitarianism - answerThe moral corrections of an action depends on the
correctness of the rules that allows it to achieve the greatest good
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