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Beginning to Understand Ethics
In two or three brief, clear sentences answer the following questions.
1. Ethics is a part of philosophy. What is the basic question of ethics?
Ans: The basic question of ethics is what shall I do? Or what is the moral thing to do, or what
my duty is as individual.
2. Describe ethics as motivism.
Ans: In ethics it deal with one moral belief but motivism deal with just and expression of
how a person feel and may express them self.
Motivism is a belief in the attempt to discern motives that can’t be consciously known and
therefore lie beyond stated reasons.
3. Describe ethics as cultural relativism.
ANS: In describing ethics as cultural relativism belief that consequence does not define truth
nothing is objectively right or wrong and that the definition of right or wrong depends on the
prevailing view of a particular individual, culture, or historical period and view.
4. Describe ethics as subjectivism.
ANS: what ethical subjectivism is compatible with moral absolutism, in that the individual or
society to whose attitudes moral propositions refer can hold some moral principle to apply
regardless of circumstances? (That is, a moral principle can be relative to an individual, but
not relative to circumstances). Ethical subjectivism is also compatible with moral relativism
when that is taken to mean the opposite of absolutism, that is, as the claim that moral
precepts should be adjusted to circumstances, as in consequentialism.
5. If ethics is not a matter of feeling or opinion, what do you believe is the real foundation or
root of ethics?
ANS: The real foundation or roots of ethics to me come from ones culture; also it could be
what our creator already hid in our hearts, even what one have learn in studying different
cultures.