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Which of the following is not one of the four basic assumptions about Ethics that we discussed in class.

Cosmos means world or universe.

If the assumption is correct that most people think ethical principles should be consistent,  evolutionary thinking challenges ethics because..

A person need not be religious to also be moral.  However,  in Western societies…

Virtue Ethics …

While Kant’s thoughts “proved” you could know  things of the phenomenal or natural world  with certainty they also suggested you could not know things beyond the natural world, like moral law even though he believed there was moral law. 

When thinking about ethics, what does the term “deference” mean?

Applied Ethics is concerned with applying ethical beliefs to real world problems

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Only a few days after the Civil War ended, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater by the actor