ENGR 213 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Deontological Ethics, Relativism, Virtue Ethics

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Engineering
• Course: ENGR 213
• Professor: Alexia Papadopoulos

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Fill in the blank (2 points total: on one end of the ethical spectrum is moral ___absolutism___ which maintains that morals are unchanging, inflexible, and always true. An individual who works for an employer and is entitled to wages under an employment contract that controls the details of work performance is considered a ___regular____ employee. Mark true or false (3 points total: ethics are customary norms of behaviour t / f (false, virtue theory focuses on the agent, not the action, when determining ethics. / f (true: rawls" theory of justice is called justice as equality t / f (false, ethics are transmitted through socialization. Short answer questions (4 points total: explain the distinction between morals and ethics as described in the course lecture. Answer: ethics is systematic analysis of human behavior. Frameworks are not specific to cultural or geographic context. Ethics is an understanding of the philosophical basis for making moral choices.