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Deontology is the view that ethics are based on:

Personal or communal ideas about what is considered important to us are called:

In the U.S., the command-and-control environmental laws of the early 1970s, together with the ensuing amendments and updates that have been made to them over time,

In addition to virtuous behavior, Aristotle says there are two types of ‘vice’:

According to Nietzsche, morality is ultimately determined by:

Judith Jarvis Thomson’s analogy, which argues that if a woman has done everything that is reasonably necessary to prevent a pregnancy (i.e., contraception) then they are not morally obligated to keep the fetus, is known as:

Jeremy Bentham argued that morality is based on our obligation to follow rational moral laws, regardless of the consequences.

Which of the following is not one of Mary Warren’s criteria for genuine personhood?

The branch of ethics that deals with fundamental moral questions like “Is morality objective or subjective?” is called:

Topics like abortion, capital punishment, etc. are examples of issues in ‘applied ethics’.