Ethics - HZT4U 


Use the HZT4U review quizzes for Ethics to check your understanding of this section in our course.  The investigations are organized as follows:

Introducing Ethics

Some of the main questions asked by ethicists.
Are Moral Choices possible?
- Gorgias & nihilism
- Determinist theories
- The Ring of Gyges - thought experiment
- Logical Positivism

Why do the right thing?
- Gautama
-  Kongfuzi

Can people be good without God?
- Paul Kurtz
- Plato
- The Land of Certus - thought experiment
How should the Rightness or Wrongness of actions be determined?
-  ethical absolutists, universalists, relativists
-  'right' and 'legal'

Are moral values objective or subjective?

Answering Questions That Matter

What is a good life?
- Socrates' answer
-  Buddhist answer
-  Confucianist's & Taoist's answer
-  Hedonist's answer
-  Stoic's answer

What is a good person?
-  Virtue Ethicist's answer
-  Existentialist's answer

What is the right thing to do?
-  Divine Command Ethicist's answer
-  Utilitarian's answer
-  Kantian Ethicist's answer
-  Egoist's answer
-  Intuitionist's answer
-  Post-Modernist's answer

Ethics in the World


Ethics, the Self, and Society
-  Lying, Cheating, and Stealing
-  Freedom of Expression and Censorship
-  War
-  Milgram and Steven Sherman experiments

Ethics and Science
-  Euthanasia
-  Genethics
-  Ethics and the Environment
-  Conservation and Preservation
-  Treatment of Non-Human animals

Ethics and Computers
-  Intellectual Property

Ethics and Business
-  Advertising